Assessment of Communication and Interaction Skill (ACIS)
What It Measures
The Assessment of Communication and Interaction Skills (ACIS) looks at how well a person communicates and gets along with others while actually doing something alongside them. A therapist observes the client in a real occupational setting the client helps choose — a group activity, a shared task, a conversation — and rates what they see rather than what they infer.
Twenty skill items sit in three domains: physicality (things like gesturing, making eye contact, orienting the body), information exchange (asking, speaking, sharing), and relations (respecting, collaborating, focusing). Grounded in the Model of Human Occupation, the ACIS is built to show which context helped or hindered, so results point toward specific skills to practice rather than a general communication label.
Additional Notes
Licensing Notes: Published by the MOHO. Purchase includes the full PDF assessment manual, fillable PDF forms, and online forms. The ACIS is also bundled in the Clearinghouse's 14-assessment MOHO package