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10 months for camhs assesment?!?

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My son who is nearly 5 was refered to camhs for an ASD assessment in may this year after a lot of time wasting by the community paed dr, she told me that it could be up to 6 months waiting time, so I prepared myself and focused on having a diagnosis for the end of the year. 

After 4 months waiting and not hearing anything I decided to call camhs, they took some details and said they would call me back, the next day when I got in from work I had a message that an appoitment had been made for 4th March 2014, 10 months since he was referred. 

I was soo angry and disappointed! I feel that 10 months waiting for an appointment is just ridiculous! 

What is everyone else's experience? Does 10 months sound right? Any advice would be great! 

I live in east renfrewshire, Scotland, and its the Renfrew Camhs, that we have been referred to. 

Im just getting realy stressed out now about the whole situation, and now still got another 6 months to wait till march! It's driving me crazy! 

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  • My wee one will be five in December and we are in Glasgow. 

    15q13.3 duplication is a rare chromosome disorder, but it's still goin through alot of research, so may not be as rare as previously thought. It is associated with ASD disorders, learning difeculties, behaviour problems and emotional problems, and been linked to seizures and epilepsy. 

    Im actually hoping that now we have this diagnosis that they might speed up his ASD assesment with camhs, the genetic doctor is going to write to them. 

    Hope you get somewhere with the new paed dr, I can't believe that your son has threatened to hurt himself and nobody is bothering, it just realy makes you wonder what the criteria actually is! 

    I am goin to see GP tomorrow about these migranes and see if he can do anything about getting my son a new paed doctor. Cause I feel that if I don't get someone to listen and do somethingg for me then I'm goin to have a breakdown!!! 

    Thanks for listening, and I'm here to chat whenever you want to vent!! X 

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  • My wee one will be five in December and we are in Glasgow. 

    15q13.3 duplication is a rare chromosome disorder, but it's still goin through alot of research, so may not be as rare as previously thought. It is associated with ASD disorders, learning difeculties, behaviour problems and emotional problems, and been linked to seizures and epilepsy. 

    Im actually hoping that now we have this diagnosis that they might speed up his ASD assesment with camhs, the genetic doctor is going to write to them. 

    Hope you get somewhere with the new paed dr, I can't believe that your son has threatened to hurt himself and nobody is bothering, it just realy makes you wonder what the criteria actually is! 

    I am goin to see GP tomorrow about these migranes and see if he can do anything about getting my son a new paed doctor. Cause I feel that if I don't get someone to listen and do somethingg for me then I'm goin to have a breakdown!!! 

    Thanks for listening, and I'm here to chat whenever you want to vent!! X 

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