Psychological assessment of autistic child

The question of knowing whether there are any really untestable autistic ch ildren is attempting the impossible. Because of their pathology, these chil dren do not follow the usual required norms, the established IQ's and in fa ct, do not match the finality of the tools at the clinician's disposal. Mor eover, the global nature of the scales sometimes hides the autistic child's specificity, the heterogeneity of his profile and his abilities, which is subsequently not conducive to therapeutic or educational care. For us, psyc hological assessment must be adaptive to each child, repeated and constantl y evolving and each interpretation must be finely tuned and above all, comp lementary to other methods. In the face of clinical practice, research and care, it is up to each clinician to choose the most relevant and adapted in struments or scales according to the child in front of him in order to achi eve the set objectives.