Published on 12, July, 2020
I am trying to use this site and finding it very tricky (it doesn't feel autistic friendly).... for example searching for Adult Assessments - i put my postcode in (Birmingham) and set it to 20miles and i get Sheffield and Cornwall as the top two finds - why is that?
Then for the Adult assessment providers why isn't there a trust pilot style rating by people who have used it - it makes it independent from NAS but useful to us...
The assessment process seems all geared to children rather than adults. I fear failing a questionnaire just because I have learnt coping strategies over the years.
The whole thing seems a minefield and the place i came for help has actually made it more confusing. Especially when you see the prices - its not a small amount.
Does anyone know if this website has been user acceptance tested with people with autism?
Anyway aside from that - anyone know of a good adult assessment provider in the Midlands? or would recommend one?
(by the way - I am OK if its me and my quirks - but it doesnt feel though it is)
Yes, the search function is just laughable, I have never received a useful set of results from it. It seems to give three types of result: nothing, everything, or totally random.
I looked for my own listing using different keywords, and the results were, if not random, rather strange. I used "social work" as the keyword, but most of the results were not for social workers but an assortment of independent providers and statutory agencies. Very frustrating!
The worst thing is that people might think that the NAS website is definitive and miss out entirely on some resource local to them,
Do you think they may have employed a neurodivergent bot as a search engine? If you can have Artificial Intelligence, why not have an autistic or ADHD bot? A think-outside-the-box-bot ... what a wonderful idea.