Recommendations for private autism assessments needed please!

I used Dr Louise Connor, she was very nice and asked me questions that in years of therapy etc nobody had ever thought to ask, and was understanding about how nervous (like throwing up the day before/not sleeping for ages) nervous I was, so could look into her also she seems to have some good understanding of Autism in women which was another plus point from me

Thanks for the info Starfox! I've taken a look at Dr Connor's website. I noticed the assessment doesn't seem as comprehensive as the other providers, e.g. it doesn't mention any questionaires and the initial assessment only takes 2.5 hours. Do you feel you got a thorough assessment? 

Hi there, yes they send through a lot of questionairres before the assessments (before you even  pay to be assessed, so I guess if you don't 'qualify' through the pre assessment-assessment bits then they don't really do the main assessment) and also do a family/parent developmental history pre assessment bit. So they have all that information before the interview section.

I think my actual assessment thing took 3 hours maybe, I am not sure. You don't have to do the weird frog book thing that I kept hearing about, it was more interview style (I know there is a name for the method and I don't remember what it is called now!) but I think a lot of it is history and life experience based with questions in there that are meant to see how your brain deals with uncertain situations (I don't know how to explain that better). For instance, I find it hard to answer a question that is 'what would you do in x situation' if I haven't been in it before and I don't understand why it (even hypothetically) would happen and I don't have all the information that I need.

So, long story short, yes I do think it was quite thorough, though I do also guess the reasons why you are looking into oficial diagnosis and your general history could require an even more multistage assessment with the practical tests (I have quite a long history of mental health stuff, eating disorders, doctors questioning bpd etc etc) so it may have made my (eventual) diagnosis easier.

Hi there, yes they send through a lot of questionairres before the assessments (before you even  pay to be assessed, so I guess if you don't 'qualify' through the pre assessment-assessment bits then they don't really do the main assessment) and also do a family/parent developmental history pre assessment bit. So they have all that information before the interview section.

I think my actual assessment thing took 3 hours maybe, I am not sure. You don't have to do the weird frog book thing that I kept hearing about, it was more interview style (I know there is a name for the method and I don't remember what it is called now!) but I think a lot of it is history and life experience based with questions in there that are meant to see how your brain deals with uncertain situations (I don't know how to explain that better). For instance, I find it hard to answer a question that is 'what would you do in x situation' if I haven't been in it before and I don't understand why it (even hypothetically) would happen and I don't have all the information that I need.

So, long story short, yes I do think it was quite thorough, though I do also guess the reasons why you are looking into oficial diagnosis and your general history could require an even more multistage assessment with the practical tests (I have quite a long history of mental health stuff, eating disorders, doctors questioning bpd etc etc) so it may have made my (eventual) diagnosis easier.