A private developmental progress tracker for families supporting children with autism or developmental delays. See communication, independence, regulation, daily living and learning as parts of one child, without reducing progress to one score. Available in 16 languages, with review status shown clearly.
AbilityMosaic appPrivate · offline-ready
AbilityMosaic helps parents and carers keep a small, consistent record between appointments. It distinguishes independent performance from prompted teaching, includes the child's comfort, and compares the child only with their own earlier record.
Each area is observed separately because a child can be much further along in one than another. The useful question is what changed in ordinary life, with how much support and at what cost to the child.
How the child gets a message across using speech, sounds, gesture, sign, pictures or AAC, and what the communication achieves.
Speech is not the only valid outcome. Effective communication in any reliable modality counts.
What spoken language, routine cues, pictures and symbols mean to the child across familiar and less familiar situations.
Not following an instruction does not prove refusal; the language, context or sensory load may be the barrier.
Shared attention, imitation, turn-taking, flexible play and engagement with familiar adults or other children.
Forced eye contact, still hands and performance for adults are not measures of social progress.
Large and small movements, coordination and the ability to plan a new action with the body for a functional purpose.
Difficulty can reflect motor planning or access, not motivation. Pain and regression need professional assessment.
What the child seeks, avoids or misses, how overload develops and which environmental changes or supports help recovery.
Accommodation comes before teaching tolerance. Harmless self-regulation should not be suppressed.
Participation and independence in dressing, toileting, washing, toothbrushing, eating, drinking, sleep and household routines.
Pain, swallowing concerns, constipation or sudden loss of a self-care skill need qualified assessment.
Communication around distress, preparing for change, waiting, recovering safely and replacing behaviour with a workable way to ask.
Reducing visible behaviour is not enough. The child's need, safety and recovery remain the outcome.
Attention, memory, sorting, sequencing, cause and effect, problem-solving and applying a learned idea in a new situation.
These observations support planning; they are not an IQ score or a substitute for formal assessment.
The documentation explains the purpose, daily workflow, measurement rules, privacy boundaries and current evidence status. The autism resource library separates established guidance from unsupported claims.
Who the app is for, what it records and what it deliberately does not do.
WorkflowA light daily, weekly and therapy-review rhythm.
PhoneAdd the private notebook to Android, iPhone or iPad.
TeachingHow goals become baselines, teaching plans and independent probes.
TrustWhat remains local, what is encrypted and what reaches the network.
EvidenceUnderstanding autism, communication, intervention, home strategies and safety.
Practical guideWhat to observe, how to measure support and when an app is not enough.
This is not a diagnosis, medical device, emergency tool or therapist replacement. Sudden regression, pain, feeding or swallowing concerns, seizures, severe self-injury or elopement need qualified assessment.
The readable record stays on approved devices. Synchronized events are encrypted before upload.
Interests and effective communication are recorded alongside support needs.
Compliance achieved through distress is not treated as progress.