Published on 12, July, 2020
Can someone explain the purpose of the assessment tasks please? I understand that the frog book was to see if I could tell a story without any words but what was the foam blue and Orange jigsaw puzzle and the map of America and the recall with actions about putting toothpaste on a toothbrush? Thanks
I had the frog book and the 'how do you brush your teeth' task as well. I think the frog story must be about imagination, because my diagnostic report was actually very nice about my version and said I was 'articulate and imaginative'! They did also say though that they often see that with autistic women so sadly I'm not special
I wonder if the toothbrush task is about whether you can explain something to somebody else in a clear and logical way? I know I asked about how much detail they wanted and whether I should do a generic version or my own routine, and I suspect they got as much useful info about how my brain works from that as they did from my actual description of brushing my teeth.
Thanks for this! Maybe it will be explained in the write up which I have been told will arrive in three weeks time.
It's more who is assessing you, and also if it's done in person or online. Mine was NHS and in person and I had the same kinda tasks in the second assessment (the first one was all talking)
Interesting that the frog book crosses all boundaries and is used in America too. My other ones were providing step by step instructions for making a cup of tea, describing what was happening in a cartoon of a beach and taking 4 items out of a bag and making up a story using them.
If I remember from my write up, I think they were mostly seeing how you deal with imagination and how you are at communicating. They said I was very direct and literal and didn't expand on answers if I could avoid it.
It was 2 and a half hours long. Lots of talking about my difficulties and life, talk with my parent about my childhood and these three tasks.
Really ?My assessment was nothing but verbal Talking.Strange.You might have had a different assessmet depending on what was being assessed.
These were the tasks during the ASD assessment.
The Assessment task is designed to see weather you meet the crteria to be reffrerd for an ASD Assessment.