2-3 hours
Traditional screening sessions
Current assessments often require long appointments and specialist scheduling that many families cannot access quickly.
Early Support Intelligence
Explainable Autism Screening Support,Designed for Real Caregiver Conversations
Vaakya converts natural caregiver descriptions into structured ISAA-aligned observations, giving families and clinicians a transparent first layer of screening support.
6
ISAA Domains Covered
40
Behavioral Items Tracked
100%
Explainable Narrative Output
Research Preview
Caregiver Input
"He plays alone for long periods, repeats the same phrases, and gets upset when routines change."
Age + context captured
2y 8m, male, home setting
Mapped indicators
ISAA #7, #17, #30
Output style
Explainable, non-diagnostic guidance
Safety-first
Clinically aligned
Speech-native
Current Gap
Families Notice Early,Systems Respond Late
Parents often report concerns early, but the path to structured evaluation can be slow, language-fragile, and difficult to interpret. Vaakya addresses this first-mile bottleneck.
Objective: shorten time-to-structured-observation while maintaining transparency and clinician-aligned language.
Limited
Specialist density outside metros
Tier-2 and tier-3 regions frequently have delayed access to pediatric neurodevelopment expertise.
22+
Languages and code-switch realities
Caregiver narratives shift across languages, while many tools remain optimized for narrow speech patterns.
Low
Interpretability in current tools
A result without reasoning is hard to trust, especially in pediatric mental health screening contexts.
Method
A Six-Step Screening Workflow,Built for Explainability at Every Layer
The pipeline is intentionally constrained around transparency and clinical context, so every output remains auditable by both caregivers and professionals.
01
Natural caregiver narration
Families describe behavior in their own words without checkboxes or rigid forms.
02
Speech to text normalization
Voice input is transcribed and cleaned for multilingual conversational patterns.
03
ISAA item mapping
Behavioral phrases are mapped against specific ISAA domains and item-level indicators.
04
Risk-pattern synthesis
Signals are grouped into an explainable summary designed for clinician handoff.
05
Transparent assistant response
The system returns plain-language reasoning and next-step guidance, not diagnostic claims.
06
Referral-ready output
Caregivers receive actionable follow-up suggestions for formal clinical evaluation pathways.
Why Vaakya
Designed for Trust,Not Just Prediction
Conversation-first input
Caregivers describe what they observe naturally, reducing form fatigue and improving context richness.
Item-level mapping
Outputs point to specific behavioral indicators instead of opaque category labels.
Explainability as default
Every response carries structured rationale that can be reviewed during clinical follow-up.
India-context language awareness
Designed around multilingual and code-switched caregiver speech patterns.
Privacy-centric architecture
Data handling is minimized and aligned with healthcare-grade governance principles.
Validation-oriented roadmap
Built for pilot rigor and medical collaboration before broad deployment.
Ethics and Safety
Clinical ResponsibilityIs the Product Surface
In pediatric behavioral screening, trust is not a feature to add later. It has to be visible in every interaction, from prompt design to disclosure language.
Disclaimer: Vaakya provides preliminary, explainable guidance. Clinical consultation remains essential for formal ASD evaluation.
Screening aid boundary
Vaakya supports observation structuring and does not replace diagnostic clinical assessment.
Data minimization
Collection and retention are scoped to what is necessary for screening-oriented guidance workflows.
Bias monitoring
Model quality is reviewed across language and demographic slices to reduce uneven performance.
Consent-led operation
Caregiver consent and ethics oversight are treated as operating prerequisites, not post-processing steps.
Operating principle: clarity over confidence. The assistant prioritizes understandable reasoning, explicit uncertainty, and safe next-step guidance.
Impact Outlook
Earlier Signals,Earlier Support
The practical goal is simple: reduce delay between caregiver concern and clinically meaningful next steps. Vaakya focuses on that first-mile gap where time is often lost.
Build pilots with usClinical velocity01
Shorter time to first structured assessment
Voice-first intake can reduce waiting friction and move families to formal evaluation pathways earlier.
Access02
Higher caregiver participation
Conversational input lowers form fatigue, helping families share richer context in less time.
Research value03
India-context screening evidence
Structured outputs aligned to local language realities can strengthen population-relevant ASD research.
System impact04
Translation to policy and practice
Pilot evidence can support publication, clinical protocol design, and public-health integration.
6
ISAA domains operationalized
40
Behavioral indicators mapped
1
Conversation to explainable output
Partnerships
Build Responsible ScreeningInfrastructure With Us
We are looking for institutions that want to co-design ethical, explainable, and clinically useful screening workflows.
Clinical pilot partners
Pediatric and developmental care centers that can co-evaluate utility in real care workflows.
Academic validation teams
Universities and research labs interested in evidence generation, bias analysis, and publication.
Public health collaborators
Organizations focused on inclusive early-screening pathways and implementation at scale.
Primary contact
Start a clinical or research pilot
Share your institution type, pilot context, and expected timeline. We will send a structured collaboration brief.
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