Monday, August 9, 2010

External Validity of Screening

One of the main problems that we face building a game to diagnose AS Syndrome is how much validity that this form of screening will carry. With so many ways to screen and the different debates about the best possible methods to use, where do you even start to look if you don't have a medical PHD for answers?

Of course we have a good sound base of information about the problematic areas we should be looking into, such as qualitative impairment in social interaction, delays and repetition is language and motor clumsiness. These are all a given, if you search for the right information, but how to implement these areas into puzzles to diagnose AS, well this is something new entirely.

Many games have been made to help these areas of neurological disorders, but nothing I have found as of yet deals with diagnosis in this way. Maybe this is a good thing, we can go on without any restrictions or the treading on of toes so to speak, either way we face this looming point of validity. Can this actually work as a diagnostic tool? Time to figure out those puzzles I think.

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