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novaliegh

my 11 year old recently had the ados assesment with camhsi got a phone call today to say my son scored high from the things he struggles with at home but as for in the assesment and at school he didnt score any im feeling quite low and that i have some how let my son down :-( i have fought from him been 2 up to now for them to even accept that he should have the ados and now i dont know what to do and which way to go. he is due to start high school in sept and because they cant diagnose him he wont meet the criterea for funding for support in school and will have to go through high school basically doing it on his own . will they re asses him if he gets to high school and the school decides he needs it or do u only get one shot at the ados assesment

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  • Spot on.  This was my point about our CAMHS.  How, in a clinical situation (which in other words is not normal and is calm and quiet and in the presence of a stranger) can they expect a child to behave in their normal way?

    Most children are reserved with strangers but and ASC child will have heightened inhibitions and anxiety and will be very undemonstrative of obvious behaviours.

    For such a short period of time too, they cannot hope to tell.  They saw my daughter for 45 minutes and an assessment is supposed to take several hours.  I mean you couldn't make this up!

    It's always a fight getting what your child needs unfortunately, but you are right to fight for him until he gets it.

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  • Spot on.  This was my point about our CAMHS.  How, in a clinical situation (which in other words is not normal and is calm and quiet and in the presence of a stranger) can they expect a child to behave in their normal way?

    Most children are reserved with strangers but and ASC child will have heightened inhibitions and anxiety and will be very undemonstrative of obvious behaviours.

    For such a short period of time too, they cannot hope to tell.  They saw my daughter for 45 minutes and an assessment is supposed to take several hours.  I mean you couldn't make this up!

    It's always a fight getting what your child needs unfortunately, but you are right to fight for him until he gets it.

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