Clinical Partners - Right to Choose

Hi!

I've just had my assessment with Clinical Partners but I went through my wife's BUPA so it was fairly quick. The first set of questionnaires are short versions of some of the multiple choice ones on Embrace Autism (if you haven't seen that, it's here: https://embrace-autism.com/autism-tests/), about ten questions on each questionnaire. There's an additional set of questions which you can write a bit more about your concerns, experiences and that sort of thing. I scanned my school reports and uploaded those to the portal which I think was quite helpful as extra background evidence.

The interview wasn't too bad, I was nervous but the assessor was very easy to talk to and encouraging. I over-ran the time allowed by a little bit, but that didn't seem to matter. My mum did the informant interview which didn't need to take the full three hours allotted, and then I had the feedback session about a week or two later when they gave me my diagnosis. The report came through the following day.

I think the people I saw at Clinical Partners were really positive, they explained everything carefully and used language which was supportive and not demeaning. I don't have any reference point for good or bad assessors more generally, but I thought they were very good.

G

Thank you so so much for your reply, it's massively useful and I really appreciate it. I hope you got everything you needed from it :)

G

Thank you so so much for your reply, it's massively useful and I really appreciate it. I hope you got everything you needed from it :)

Thanks. That's interesting as I don't like the idea of zoom, not sure why I don't.

Should have mentioned - I did my sessions on zoom and I asked if they could conduct the informant interview by phone, just thought it might be easier for my mum to navigate as she doesn't really use zoom. I found it a bit easier having that separation over zoom vs being in the actual room with someone.