Autism Mental Status Exam

Welcome to the AMSE Training Site

The AMSE is an 8-item brief diagnostic observational assessment that standardizes the way clinicians observe and document social, communicative and behavioral functioning in people with Autism Spectrum Disorder. It also provides a score that can inform your diagnostic decision making. It has gone through multiple validation studies on many continents and has been downloaded thousands of times. The AMSE is free to use.

What’s new?

New website design

Simplified user interface to make the website easier to use.

Improved training tools

Simplified case vignettes to help you use the AMSE in a reliable manner.

More AMSE translations

Spanish instructions are now available on the site. Additional validated translations are coming.

Train the parents

Learn about skills you can teach parents so they can promote social and communicative development.