The R.E.A.L. Neurodiverse™ Assessment Suite
Structured Self-Insight Tools To Support Individual Client Integration
What You Get:
The Five Empathy Spectrum Assessments
In neurodiverse families and intimate partnerships, confusion often arises when empathy is discussed as if it were a single trait — something a person either “has” or “doesn’t have.”
The R.E.A.L. Neurodiverse™ framework approaches empathy differently. Rather than treating autism as a single spectrum or empathy as a single ability, the model identifies five distinct empathy-related spectrums that influence how individuals experience, process, and respond to others.
Both autistic and non-autistic individuals fall somewhere on each of these spectrums. Falling on an empathy spectrum does not mean being “a little autistic.” It means that human capacities vary across multiple dimensions — and those variations shape communication, regulation, and relational dynamics.
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Emotion-Origin Awareness (EOA)
Assesses how easily someone can distinguish between emotions that began in another person and emotions that began within themselves — a key factor in reducing confusion and improving communication in neurodiverse relationships.
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Empathic-Emotion Intensity (EEI)
Measures the intensity with which a person feels the emotions of others in their environment — helping explain differences in sensitivity, overwhelm, and emotional responsiveness within relationships.
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Embodied
Simulation (ES)
Assesses how strongly a person internally mirrors and anticipates the actions of others — a key factor in nonverbal attunement, timing, and the sense of immediate social connection within neurodiverse relationships.
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Interoception
Measures how accurately someone detects and interprets emotional signals from within their body — helping explain differences in emotional clarity, self-regulation, and vulnerability to overwhelm in neurodiverse relationships.
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Theory of Mind (ToM)
Measures a person’s ability to cognitively understand others’ thoughts, perspectives, and intentions — helping explain differences in misunderstanding, conflict, and perspective-taking within neurodiverse relationships.
Mapping where a person falls on the empathy spectrums helps clients and providers build shared insight into how empathy functions in interactions, supporting greater clarity in self-regulation and relational responsiveness.
For Self and Relational Insight — Not Diagnosis
The Five Empathy Spectrum Assessments are structured, quantitative self-insight tools used during Phase Two: Individual Integration of the R.E.A.L. Neurodiverse™ 10-Step Framework.
These assessments are:
Designed to support guided reflection
Clinically grounded in developmental and neuropsychological theory
Used within a structured integration process
Not diagnostic instruments
Not fully psychometrically validated research measures
Their purpose is clarity — structured insight that supports understanding without labeling.
The Value of Empathy Assessments During
Phase 2 — Individual Integration
The Five Empathy Spectrum Assessments are structured self-insight tools used during Phase 2 — Individual Integration. They help clients understand how empathy operates within their own nervous systems and relationships.
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1. Neurodiversity Education
Clients begin with structured psychoeducational modules that establish shared language and neurodiversity-affirming context —offering autistic and non-autistic tracks and family and life partnership focuses.
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2. Individual Integration
Clients engage in structured individual sessions using multimodal integration tools—including guided discussions or modules, reflective exercises, somatic practices, and more—each designed to honor individual neurological processing styles.
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3. Relational Discussion
At the completion of each step or substep, individual track work culminates in optional structured shared discussions—bringing autistic and non-autistic participants together for insight-based, neurologically respectful exploration.
Mapping the empathy spectrums increases self-understanding, reduces blame, and prepares clients for more effective relational discussion and personal decision making.
From Confusion to Clarity
When individuals can see where they fall across these five spectrums, they gain a shared language for understanding:
Why misunderstandings occur
Why emotional intensity differs
Why one partner or family member feels overwhelmed while another feels confused
Why communication patterns repeat
Insight reduces blame. Mapping reduces confusion. Structured awareness supports relational repair.
Expanded Assessment Suites Available Through Advanced Credentialing
These advanced tools are available to providers who pursue higher credential levels within the R.E.A.L. Neurodiverse™ Family Systems pathway:
Expanded Step 4 Empathy Assessments (IESP™ and advanced subscales)
Step 6 Neurodiverse Relationship Dynamics™ Scales
Step 7 Trauma and Empathic Trauma Assessment Suite
Composite trauma scoring and advanced clinical mapping tools
Advanced credentials unlock expanded quantitative tools for deeper relational, trauma, and systems-level insight.
Bring Structured Insight Into Your Practice
If you’re ready to use quantitative empathy mapping to reduce confusion and deepen relational understanding, enroll as a Solo Practitioner or explore multi-provider options.
Give clients language for what they’ve struggled to explain.
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