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variety in assessment procedure

qwerty

I think a lot of people's experiences in the final assessment vary quite a lot, and after viewing various different websites about how the diagnosis is done in their clinics. Some require you to have an assessment with a diagnostic team with multiple professionals, while there are other clinics where the assessment is done with only one person. Some diagnostic interviews last many hours across multiple sessions and some are very short, e.g, 1-2 hours. 

I'm curious what people's experiences are like.

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  • Both mine and my son's roughly followed the same process - AQ and EQ questionnaires, an initial screening interview, another 1:1 observational interview (ADOS 4) and a 2 1/2 hour questionnaire-based interview with a parent.  However, I had a very long wait on the NHS, both to get to the initial appointment and then between appointments, so the whole process took around 20 months.  Our son went to the Tuke Centre and, for their NHS work the wait was reckoned to be around 14 months.  We therefore went private with them and it was all done within a couple of months with a full report at the end of it (I'd got a brief letter just to tell me that I met the diagnostic criteria).

    I really wish this was all standardised.  

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  • Both mine and my son's roughly followed the same process - AQ and EQ questionnaires, an initial screening interview, another 1:1 observational interview (ADOS 4) and a 2 1/2 hour questionnaire-based interview with a parent.  However, I had a very long wait on the NHS, both to get to the initial appointment and then between appointments, so the whole process took around 20 months.  Our son went to the Tuke Centre and, for their NHS work the wait was reckoned to be around 14 months.  We therefore went private with them and it was all done within a couple of months with a full report at the end of it (I'd got a brief letter just to tell me that I met the diagnostic criteria).

    I really wish this was all standardised.  

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