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Assessment

NAS78369

I am due to have an autism assessment by a Psychologist from the mental health team.

Anyone that has had an assessment shed any light as to how they go? Will they tell me that day if I have autism or will there be a few sessions? I filled out two questionnaires already for them. 

What happens in terms of support if they think autism is likely?

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    Hi, they  ask you to make up a story book with only pictures in, play with various items to make up a story and others that I can't remember.  Oh, they'll give you a paper with a shape on it and pieces to put on it to make up the shape.  What the point of any of these is I don't know.

    For my assessment the other day on the book one I just basically told them what was happening on the page, the play with items and make up a story I picked up a toy car, toy pair of specs and whizzing top.

    The story I came up with was one where the car crashed into a bull (the spinny top thing) and the glasses got bent, something that happened to me just over 2 weeks ago, when I rounded a bend on a country road in Scotland and smacked straight into a bull stood in the roadway. 

    That car was written off a couple of days later, which was inevitable as the front was all smashed up, bonnet looked like a piece of foil, windscreen was completely gone as was the glass roof and the rear window.  2 lads in a van behind helped me get out of the car (I use a wheelchair to get around because of MS) and told me the bull had been lifted onto the bonnet and then rolled up and over the windscreen, continuing to roll over the roof which was glass and shattered all over me.  The first thing the nurses at the hospital did was take all my clothing off and shake it outside to get rid of the glass that remained.  The ambulance crew that came to take me to hospital took photos of the remains of the car, and the bull which had ended up in a ditch on the side of the road on it's back with it's legs stuck straight up.  Looking at the damage caused they said I was incredibly lucky to get out alive.  I saw the car a couple of days later when I went to retrieve my property and I was shocked at the extent of the damage.  The car had had a glass roof and an opening portion to make a sunroof which I'd had open the entire journey as it was such a nice day.  That was completely gone and the car looked like a convertible (it was a 19 plate Toyota Corolla estate).  Oops I digress!  Apologies!

  • If it’s NHS, which I assume, it will follow the same pattern. There are often 2-3 appointments, but this can vary. There will be lots of questions to answer, including things about your childhood and development. You will be asked to do some simple tasks. 
    You won’t find out at the appointment, and you usually have a follow up appointment to discuss the findings and final report, which will also be given to you.

  • My assessment was done using ADOS 2 mid pandemic. It took 2 or 3 sessions. Mostly over phone but the last one was over zoom. It takes the form of a structured conversation. So the interviewer will ask you to talk about yourself and particular topics about yourself and once they’ve got you talking on a topic they’ll mostly let you ramble. Lastly there was the zoom interview which included some actual tests like being shown a story book and asked questions about it and play acting with props.