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Can a Nurse provide a Autism Diagnosis? (Adult)

Goatworshiper

I've got a draft of a report and I'm sorting out mistakes (for which there is many). I'm just wondering if a Nurse can diagnose autism or not?

I've been assesed by a Specialist Registrar, Clinical Nurse Specialist, 2xCommunity Nurses and a Higher Assistant Psychologist. I've never seen the Consultant Psychiatrist.

The report is written by a community nurse. Is this normal?

Top and bottom of this is unless I get a developmental interview conducted by someone who knew me aged 4/5 they won't say either way. Despite me telling them I didn't want my parents involved at the start (and them telling me that was ok).

I was also promised a feedback session at the end of assesment period regardless of outcome. This now seems to be convieniently forgotten about now I have "difficult" questions. 

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  • There are distinctions though between dyslexia manifest in adults and childhood dyslexia. These links are for childhood dyslexia.

    It was thought at one time that people got over dyslexia just like they supposedly grow out of autism. In reality people compensate. Also they learn what is expected.

    Adult behaviour tends to pivot more around the memory issues. I don't know the details of this because it was a grey box area for me, I occasionally got involved in supporting students with dyslexia.

    The memory issue can be a series of numbers or remembering the beginning of a sentence by the time they get to the end, which fits what goatworshiper is describing of struggling to read without being able to introduce inflexion in drama.

    Does NAS have a link for adult presentations of dyslexia?

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  • There are distinctions though between dyslexia manifest in adults and childhood dyslexia. These links are for childhood dyslexia.

    It was thought at one time that people got over dyslexia just like they supposedly grow out of autism. In reality people compensate. Also they learn what is expected.

    Adult behaviour tends to pivot more around the memory issues. I don't know the details of this because it was a grey box area for me, I occasionally got involved in supporting students with dyslexia.

    The memory issue can be a series of numbers or remembering the beginning of a sentence by the time they get to the end, which fits what goatworshiper is describing of struggling to read without being able to introduce inflexion in drama.

    Does NAS have a link for adult presentations of dyslexia?

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