CSAAT - Culturally Sensitive Autism Assessment Tool

Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder, which may cause impairments in social behaviors such as lack of eye contact, facial expressions, poor communication abilities that may result from both verbal and non-verbality and repetitive and stereotyped behaviors. Early diagnosis of symptoms within first 3 months to 18months in life may help the children to direct for therapeutic sessions and improve their social skills. However, it is critical to identify these symptoms in infants as this is the developmental age of children. In this research, the main goal is to develop a screening tool for autism for Sri Lankan environments.


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We are a group of academics and professionals who are interested in technology enablement for Autism Specturm Disorder (ASD).



  • OUR VISION
  • Bringing normal life to Children's with ASD

  • OUR MISSION
  • To be the center of excellence that innovates intelligence systems to complement medical professionals' efforts of detection and rehabilitation of children with ASD to integrate them with society to make them enjoy their childhood.



    Our research project idea was realized by AHEAD funding.




Research Areas





Speech Recognition

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neuro-developmental disorder characterized by social impairments, communication...

Dialogue Management

According to recent statistics, one among 95 kids in Sri Lanka is diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), a neuro-developmental disorder...

Text to speech

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopment disorder which presents a spectrum of symptoms affecting the social interactions of an individual...

Gesture and Gait Analysis

A variety of movement disturbances including atypical gait, upper limb movements and postural control are also important...

SOCIALLY ASSISTIVE ROBOT

About 1 in every 160 children globally has autism spectrum disorder (ASD). ASD is a developmental disability, which is...

Restricted and Repetitive Behavior Analysis

The presence of restrictive and repetitive behaviors (RRBs), interests, and activities is one of the key...

Emotion Analysis

It has been found that there are significant differences in social interaction of children with ASD. Emotion...

Gaze and Attention Analysis

Children with ASD have shown variant behaviors in eye contact, disengagement of visual attention, visual...

Provenance Preserving Scientific Data Store for Research Data

The CSAAT project aims to early-detect Autism in young children using anomalies in emotion, gaze, movement,...

Federated Learning Models for Distributed Mobile Computing

The CSAAT project aims to early-detect Autism in young children using anomalies in emotion, gaze, movement,...

Joint Attention Analysis

Interactions between child and mother/examiner are analysed to identify the deficiency of joint attention.Videos containing interactions are used....

Team

Dr. Pradeepa Samarasinghe

Principal Investigator | Project Coordinator

Prof. Koliya Pulasinghe

Co-investigator | Deputy Project Coordinator

Prof. CHANDIMAL JAYAWARDENE

Co-investigator

Dr. Shyam Reyal

Co-investigator

DR. ANURADHA KARUNASENA

Co-investigator

DR. DHARSHANA KASTHURIRATHNA

Co-investigator

DR. NUWAN KODAGODA

Co-investigator

DR. LASANTHA SENEVIRATNE

Co-investigator

MS. CHATHURANGIKA KAHANDAWAARACHCHI

Co-investigator

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Location:

SLIIT, New Kandy Road, Malabe, Sri Lanka