Assessing Autism Spectrum Disorder in Intellectually Able Adults with the Personality Assessment Inventory: Normative Data and a Novel Supplemental Indicator.

The team built a new math rule inside the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI). The rule spots autism in bright adults who never got a diagnosis.

They tested the adults with ASD and 67 matched controls. All had IQs in the normal range.

Cross-validation checked the rule twice. It held up both times.

The PAI rule got 88 % of true autism cases right. It kept false positives under 15 %.

One extra score, the "Alone-Time" scale, made the rule even sharper.

Waldron et al. (2023) pushed screening further. They mined health records with NLP and caught 95 % of autistic young adults. Sievers et al. (2020) gives you a clinic form; A et al. gives you a computer script. Use both and you cover the office and the database.

Barton et al. (2019) did the same kind of work, only in toddlers. They proved a 5-item checklist can flag autism early. B et al. shows the same "short tool works" rule holds for grown-ups.

Deschrijver et al. (2017) looked at brain waves and found motor-planning glitches. Their EEG marker and the PAI rule measure different things, yet both spot high-functioning autism. Together they give you two windows: mind style and brain timing.

Many bright adults mask autism and leave your office mis-labeled as anxious or moody. The new PAI function gives you a 15-minute paper-and-pencil screen you can score before intake ends. If the score is high, you move to full ADOS or refer to a specialist. No extra kit, no extra cost. Pair it with the NLP chart review from Waldron et al. (2023) and you can spot missed cases even before they walk in.