How fluently are you already reading your child?
You already sense your child is communicating. This 24-question assessment shows you, in four minutes, how much of their signal system you're already reading, where you're strongest, and where the biggest growth is waiting.
Built by Dr. Catherine C. Acotto, PhD, CCC-SLP, 26 years and 50,000+ clinical hours with non-speaking and minimally speaking autistic children.
Your child has been communicating with you for years. You already know that. You've watched them reach for the door before you said the word "outside." You've felt the shift in the room before the meltdown arrived. You've read something in your child that no evaluation form had a checkbox for.
What you haven't had is a framework: a way to name what you're seeing, measure how much you're catching, and know what to build next.
That's what this assessment is for.
What the Signal Fluency Assessment™ Tells You
24 questions across the six SIGNAL™ categories. Four-point scale. Scored out of 96. In four minutes, you'll know exactly where you stand, and where to focus first.
Signal Overwhelm
The signals are there, but the noise is louder. You're in survival mode. This is where the framework matters most.
Signal Awareness
You're catching signals. You're not always sure what they mean. The interpretation layer is next.
Signal Emerging
You're reading and responding. Now the work is generalizing across people, places, and hard days.
Signal Fluency
You're reading your child's system with real confidence. Now the work is protecting and sustaining it.
What you get when you finish
✓Your Signal Fluency* Type: one of four, scored out of 96
✓Your strongest SIGNAL™ category: what you're already doing well
✓Your biggest growth area: the exact place to focus next
✓A plain-language explanation of what your score means for tonight, this week, and this year
An invitation to enroll in Silence to Signals™, which is open now
* Signal Fluency™ is how fluently a parent is already reading their child's communication, measured by the 24-question Signal Fluency Assessment™ and scored from 24 to 96 in four types: Signal Overwhelm (24–42), Signal Awareness (43–60), Signal Emerging (61–78) and Signal Fluency (79–96).
“It came out of nowhere.”
It almost never does.
A meltdown is rarely the first signal. It’s usually the last one in a sequence, and the earlier ones were quieter. When a small signal isn’t recognized, it doesn’t stop. It gets louder. By the time nobody can miss it, it looks like it arrived from nothing.
If that signal came with a caption, it might read:
“I’ve been trying to tell you something smaller for the last ten minutes and no one received it.”
That’s not a behavior problem. That’s communication that got turned up.
And the question underneath all of it
Most parents who find me are really asking one thing. Will my child ever speak?
Your child is already communicating right now, and you can learn to read it.
Learning to read it changes what happens today, not in some future you’re waiting for.
Who built this assessment
Dr. Catherine C. Acotto, PhD, CCC-SLP, has spent 26 years and more than 50,000 clinical hours with non-speaking and minimally speaking autistic children, and she still works full time in a preschool autism program.
The 24 questions follow the six-stage SIGNAL Path she teaches parents: See the Child, Interpret the Behavior, Get in Sync, Normalize Symbols, Anticipate Breakdowns and Layer Communication Growth.
Silence to Signals™ enrollment is open now. Your result shows you where to start.
Take the AssessmentHow enrollment works
Silence to Signals™ enrollment is open now, and you can start today.
You can enroll whenever you are ready.
Your assessment result shows you where to start.
What every family gets
Everything in Silence to Signals™: the full six modules, Parent Hub*, unlimited Signal Translator™ AI**, and the monthly live Q&A with Dr. Acotto.
* Parent Hub is the ongoing ecosystem of caregivers, educators, and practitioners who have committed to Signal Literacy™, supporting each other in the daily practice of signal translation.
** Signal Translator™ AI is unlimited access to the AI built on Dr. Acotto's knowledge base, available exclusively to course members.
Take the assessment. See what you're already reading.
24 questions. Four minutes. No cost. Answer below, and your Signal Fluency Type™ appears the moment you finish.
Start Your Signal Fluency Assessment™
Your type shows on screen when you finish. Add your name and email to see your strongest area and your biggest growth area.
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