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AI framework TPA enhances autism language disorder assessment

Researchers have developed a novel multi-agent dialogue framework called TPA (Think, Plan, Ask) designed to proactively assess traits of Social Language Disorder (SLD) in individuals with autism. This AI system simulates a doctor agent that reasons about unobserved diagnostic traits and formulates targeted questions to elicit them from a simulated patient agent. In evaluations using real clinical data, TPA demonstrated significantly higher diagnostic efficiency and trait coverage compared to existing dialogue planning methods and even automated replays of clinician-led assessments. AI

IMPACT This AI framework could lead to more scalable and efficient AI-assisted clinical screening for autism-related language disorders.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Chuanbo Hu, Minglei Yin, Bin Liu, Wenqi Li, Lynn K. Paul, Shuo Wang, Xin Li ·

    A Proactive Multi-Agent Dialogue Framework for Assessing Social Language Disorder Traits in Autism

    arXiv:2605.22993v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Characteristic linguistic behaviors associated with Social Language Disorder (SLD) in autism spectrum disorder, including echoic repetition, pronoun displacement, and stereotyped media quoting, are largely absent from spontaneous …

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Xin Li ·

    A Proactive Multi-Agent Dialogue Framework for Assessing Social Language Disorder Traits in Autism

    Characteristic linguistic behaviors associated with Social Language Disorder (SLD) in autism spectrum disorder, including echoic repetition, pronoun displacement, and stereotyped media quoting, are largely absent from spontaneous conversation and only emerge under specific conver…