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The NeurAtip Research Program develops reproducible evidence, measurement instruments and research infrastructure on adult neurodivergence and real-world functioning.

Adult Neurodivergence & Psychometrics
Digital Measurement & Behavioral Science

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The SPECTRA Evidence Stack: A Rule-Specified Neuroaffirmative Framework for Integrating Multi-Source Evidence in Adult Neurodivergence Assessment

Um framework com regras explícitas para integrar evidências de diferentes fontes na avaliação da neurodivergência em adultos

Authors: Lucas Fortaleza de Aquino Ferreira, Lenifer Siqueira Landim, Giovana Melo Bezerra Teixeira, Charlene Coleman, Ana Maria Luna Neri Benevides

JMIR Formative Research · 23 October 2026

DOI: 10.2196/106266 ·View on PubMed

Adult neurodivergence assessment relies on multi-informant data that frequently disagree; such discrepancies may reflect masking, context-dependent expression or limited self-insight rather than measurement error. The paper specifies the SPECTRA Evidence Stack, a rule-based architecture that preserves cross-informant discrepancies as interpretable evidence instead of collapsing them into opaque scores, producing quality flags, convergence profiles, evidence-strength bands and reason codes. Framework behaviour was examined on 250 synthetic records through a prespecified four-condition rule-configuration comparison and a threshold-perturbation sensitivity analysis; with the disclosed code, version and seed, the reference run was reproducible.

Key limitations

This is a design specification, not a validation study: no clinical participants were involved and all records were synthetic. Differences between configurations are descriptive, not causal estimates. The ordering of configurations held in most single-parameter scenarios but not under joint perturbation. Diagnostic accuracy, criterion validity and reliability were not assessed in this work.

The article records the NeurAtip, Fortaleza, Brazil affiliation. It describes one specific framework and does not constitute validation of other NeurAtip projects or products.

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Last verified: 27 October 2026

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SPECTRA

Project status: Development

Research platform on human functioning, autism and ADHD

Digital Measurement & Behavioral Science

NeurAtip’s digital platform for research on human functioning, autism and ADHD in adults. It hosts the measurement infrastructure in which the program’s instruments are developed and studied. SPECTRA does not provide automated diagnosis.

The platform is under development. Its existence does not demonstrate completed scientific validation of its instruments, nor diagnostic performance.

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SPECTRA Evidence Stack

Project status: Completed

Multi-source evidence integration

Digital Measurement & Behavioral Science

Specification of a rule-based, neuroaffirmative framework for integrating multi-source evidence in adult neurodivergence assessment. The specification was published, peer reviewed, in JMIR Formative Research.

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