Australian Digital Tool, MySigns, Supports Mental Health Assessments Of People With I/DD

On August 13, 2020, the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney's Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry (3DN) launched MySigns, a free digital tool to assess the mental health of people with intellectual or developmental disability (I/DD) and communication difficulties. The tool can be used collaboratively between people with I/DD, their caregivers, and mental health clinical professionals. NSW Health provides funding for MySigns. The goal is to improve mental health assessment, monitoring, and treatment of people with I/DD.

MySigns allows people who know the individual with I/DD to document and share their observations about the . . .