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How to Separate Information Access From Mental-State Inference
Separate observable information access from mental-state inference while preserving direct report, uncertainty, task demands, context, and partner evidence.
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Clinician guide
Separate observable information access from mental-state inference while preserving direct report, uncertainty, task demands, context, and partner evidence.

Clinician guide
Learn how to define a perspective-taking assessment question using practical decisions, information histories, accessible tasks, uncertainty, and action rules.

Clinician guide
Document conversation evidence using partners, activities, modes, turn and topic definitions, timing, repair, scripts, prompts, partner behavior, and limits.

Clinician guide
Reassess conversation after AAC, partner, or context changes by preserving phases, versioning access, repairing gaps, and collecting focused evidence.

Clinician guide
Assess conversation across familiar and unfamiliar partners, settings, groups, in-person, phone, text, speech, AAC, topics, sensory access, timing, and purpose.

Clinician guide
Assess partner questions, prompts, comments, acknowledgments, expansions, waits, interruptions, topic follows, repair support, AAC access, and shared contribution.

Clinician guide
Separate supported conversation, interview responses, rehearsed scripts, prompts, topic choices, shared actions, repairs, partner uptake, and mixed control.

Clinician guide
Assess communication repair by preserving the original message, breakdown, clarification request, accessible repair forms, partner confirmation, success, and burden.

Clinician guide
Assess conversation topics using initiations, related contributions, explicit and implicit shifts, reintroduction, closure, choice, partner follow, and context.

Clinician guide
Measure conversation timing with partner-turn offset, response onset, device composition, pauses, overlap, interruption, repair, and context-specific clocks.

Clinician guide
Define person-authored conversation turns across speech, AAC, text, sign, gesture, media, shared action, pause, pass, overlap, repair, and partner response.

Clinician guide
Define a conversation-assessment question using the participation decision, partners, activity, communication modes, turns, topics, repair, timing, and context.