ASD Assessment

Our assessments are conducted by two experienced mental health professionals.

We know it can be difficult to decide whether an assessment would be

helpful so we offer a free 20 min call to discuss you concerns.

Step 1: Screening

If we agree that it would be helpful to complete a full screening we

will send you a number of questionnaires that will help us to

understand more about you and your child. These questions will

look at signs of both Autism and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity

Disorder as well as mental health conditions that can ‘look’ like

Autism. Questionnaires will also be provided for your child’s

school/ college.

Step 2: Developmental History

An assessment will be completed with you as parents/ guardians. This will involve both a general developmental assessment and the use a gold standard assessment tool such as the ADI-R or 3DI.

This tool helps us to gather a detailed developmental history.

This appointment will be online and typically takes 3 hours.

Step 3: Behavioural Observation

An assessment will be completed with your child in a face-to-face appointment. This will involve the

ADOS-2. This is a gold standard assessment tool used to provide a behavioural observation. This

assessment involves different elements including questions, play or puzzle tasks and most young people find the assessment quite interesting. The assessment will also involve meeting with your child to discuss their views on their strengths and difficulties and consider their general mental health.

This appointment will typically be 2 hours.

Step 4: Initial Feedback

Following the completion of the key assessment components the assessing clinicians will meet to discuss the assessment. Diagnostic decisions are made as a multidisciplinary team. We will then call you to provide initial feedback.

On some occasions we may feel we do not have enough information to reach a diagnostic conclusion. In these cases we may try to gather further information from other sources such as further discussion with your child’s school/ college, a school observation or getting further information from other sources such as clubs that your child attends. There will be an additional fee for school observations.

Step 5: Report

We will email you the full report. We aim for our reports to be balanced and consider your child’s strengths as well as highlighting areas in which they are struggling and may need support.

Step 6: Feedback session

We will meet you for a feedback session to discuss the results in more detail and discuss any recommendations we have made.

Following assessment

We recommend that you share our report with your GP along with any other health care professional who is supporting your child (e.g. GP, Paediatrician, etc). Our report can also be shared with your child’s school/ college and used towards an Education Health Care Plan (EHCP).