
Clinician guide
How to Assess Working-Memory Demands in Multistep Tasks
Assess working-memory demands in multistep tasks by mapping held and updated information, ordinary external supports, access, control checks, errors, and experience.
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Assess working-memory demands in multistep tasks by mapping held and updated information, ordinary external supports, access, control checks, errors, and experience.

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Assess task initiation with eligible opportunities, readiness checks, meaningful starts, ordinary supports, latency, prompts, choice, refusal, and experience.

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Separate task performance from an executive-function trait by documenting task demands, supports, access, context, health, measurement method, results, and limits.

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Define an executive-function assessment question using a practical decision, exact task, ordinary supports, access, observable performance, experience, and limits.

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Document perspective-taking evidence with information histories, task and response definitions, accessible modes, controls, uncertainty, action, and limits.

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Reassess perspective taking after language or access changes by preserving phases, versioning task demands, repairing access, and collecting focused evidence.

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Avoid masking and compliance goals in perspective assessment by reviewing ownership, safety, power, privacy, effort, choice, and partner adaptation.

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Assess mutual understanding across partners and neurotypes using messages, interpretations, confirmation, repair, comfort, context, and shared outcomes.

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Assess perspective coordination in a shared task using each person's view, information, role, accessible communication, handoffs, confirmation, and joint outcomes.

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Assess social inference with observable scenes, multiple plausible explanations, evidence for and against each, direct report, uncertainty, repair, and safe action.

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Assess false-belief task demands by mapping story language, syntax, memory, inhibition, response modes, controls, familiarity, and alternative strategies.

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Assess visual perspective with defined observer positions, visible and hidden stimuli, control items, accessible responses, and explicit language and motor demands.