Neurodiversity spectrum
A clinical and research project by Lifeology
NeuroIride is a platform for mental health professionals. It brings together questionnaires on attention, autism, learning, tics, sensory processing and adjustment in a single profile, so that an adult's functioning can be read as a set of shades that combine with one another.
NeuroIride does not make diagnoses: it supports the professional's assessment, within a clinical interview and a personal history.
The project's name is Italian, and in Italian the word iride means two things: the coloured part of the eye, different in each of us, and the rainbow. We love both. ADHD, autism, dyslexia, tics and sensory sensitivity are like the colours of the spectrum, and in the same person they blend at different intensities, in a profile that belongs to that person alone.
4 areas, 18 dimensions
ADHD, autism, high sensitivity and specific learning differences (SLD), each described by four or five dimensions: not a label, but the shape of how a person functions. Each dimension is worth 0 to 100 as a percentage of the maximum, so that different instruments become readable on the same chart.
Two levels
The assessment starts with short questionnaires. When one goes above its threshold, the platform suggests the full test for that area. You go deeper where it is needed, without burying the person under questions.
Over time
Tests can be added later and different sessions compared. Every result keeps its date, because the state of a difficult period and lifelong traits need to be read differently.
NeuroIride is designed and used by Lifeology, a group of mental health professionals who support neurodivergent adults from assessment through to psychoeducation.
People who come to an assessment as adults often bring with them a history of partial labels, collected at different times. The NeuroIride profile helps the professional give back an overall picture, in plain language and with a report written for the person who receives it.
Assessment with NeuroIride takes place within the programmes of the professionals who use it. For information about Lifeology's programmes (the Lifeology website is in Italian):
After the assessment, the path can continue with Lifeology's NeuroCoaching: three-month cycles with a psychologist and worksheets chosen on each person's profile. How NeuroCoaching works
Clinician-guided administration, scores and explanations for every instrument, a polar chart, a printable report for the person, tracked corrections and pseudonymised data that can be exported for research.
Access is by invitation only and restricted to licensed professionals.