Please note: MySigns was retired in December 2023. It is no longer available.
This page describes what the app was and how it worked.
On 13 August 2020, The Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry launched MySigns, a web application that could be used to support mental health assessment of people with intellectual disability and significant communication difficulties. The tool could be used collaboratively between the person with intellectual disability, their carers and their mental health clinician. 3DN worked closely with a web development agency to produce this resource.
MySigns catalogued the unique objective mental state indicators for a person with intellectual disability who had difficulties with communication. Carers could use the resource to compile the person’s unique catalogue, adding objective indicators and tagging their subjective correlate (e.g. recording the person’s distinctive moaning that correlates with their feeling of anxiety). Carers could also use the app to make a record of the person’s mental state at a given time for review by a clinician in the context of the person’s clinical management.
See the MySigns Easy Read Guide for more information about the app and how it worked.
