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Attune

Attention is, in part, an acoustics problem.

A child with ADHD-type inattention is often fighting a classroom signal-to-noise ratio near zero. Attune is a functional listening assessment for audiologists and SLPs — an ecological questionnaire and a calibrated digits-in-noise test that describe listening function and route to the right referral. It does not diagnose APD or ADHD.

AttuneTherapeutics · Classroom listening

Measure the function, not a label.

The traditional gatekeeper for this population — the central auditory processing disorder (APD) test battery — is a contested construct the recent literature is actively dismantling. The field is converging on a functional model instead: ecological questionnaires, speech-in-noise performance, and measured response to a real classroom accommodation.

Attune's assessment engine pairs an ecological listening questionnaire with an adaptive digits-in-noise test, run through a calibration protocol — a headphone allowlist, a reference-tone loudness match, and a quiet-room check — before any score counts. The output is a functional description and a set of non-exclusive referral options, never a diagnosis of APD or ADHD.

Features

Built to be the platform that doesn't overclaim.

01

Ecological questionnaire

A structured listening-difficulty questionnaire, scored per subscale, sitting alongside the speech-in-noise result.

02

Calibrated digits-in-noise

An adaptive staircase test with a headphone allowlist, reference-tone loudness matching, and a quiet-room checklist before any session counts.

03

Non-diagnostic triage

Deterministic, rule-based routing to referral — every report carries a fixed disclaimer and more than one recommended next step.

04

Dual-zone architecture

Clinic-held clinical data and district-held education records live in separate legal zones, bridged only by consented report artifacts — never a live database join.

Open Attune

Built for the clinic, first.

This build covers the clinic-side assessment engine. District fleet management for a remote-microphone deployment layer is a later phase.

Side A

For audiologists & SLPs

Patient intake, questionnaire scoring, calibrated digits-in-noise testing, and the triage report — one battery, one visit.

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Just launched — deployed to production as an assessment-engine prototype; no clinics onboarded yet. The questionnaire currently ships with placeholder item text pending a licensing decision on the real instrument, and the calibration protocol's audio stimuli are a synthesized placeholder pending the planned validation study.

Attune is one of the solutions built inside the Synapse Spark Foundation. Everything we make is part of the same mission — embracing neurodivergent minds and supporting the researchers advancing the science.

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