Audiology Assesment : Hearing tests for Autism

This is supposed to be a safe forum for people on the spectrum, parents and carers to seek advice.

There is a professional forum on the website which we cannot use without registering (and which is very difficult for us to register onto). Professionals can read what is written here as guests. However it is only proper and courteous to ask the moderators if you are going to ask people questions for professional application.

It might seem a convenient option but consider. Anything disclosed in reply might reveal confidential information either about the individual or other services used. People making these disclosures have a right to know how any information they impart is used, and how confidential it will be. Some respondents here fall within the definition of vulnerable adults.

You have said nothing about yourself except you are a practicing NHS audologist, but that could still mean a private clinic. People on the spectrum and their families are often charged very high fees for autism support services, of varying  quality and efficacy. So it isn't fair to use a forum for free advice.

There are procedures for consultation which most organisations undertake, and in which I happily participate.

My comment is there were more errors than seemed reasonable and the reference to 'us professionals' seemed to me inappropriate. I was pergfectly right to ask if you were a student doing a dissertation. You should have explained better who you were, preferably identifying a practice or a Health Service Trust, if the Moderators would allow. Otherwise you could be anybody.

This is supposed to be a safe forum for people on the spectrum, parents and carers to seek advice.

There is a professional forum on the website which we cannot use without registering (and which is very difficult for us to register onto). Professionals can read what is written here as guests. However it is only proper and courteous to ask the moderators if you are going to ask people questions for professional application.

It might seem a convenient option but consider. Anything disclosed in reply might reveal confidential information either about the individual or other services used. People making these disclosures have a right to know how any information they impart is used, and how confidential it will be. Some respondents here fall within the definition of vulnerable adults.

You have said nothing about yourself except you are a practicing NHS audologist, but that could still mean a private clinic. People on the spectrum and their families are often charged very high fees for autism support services, of varying  quality and efficacy. So it isn't fair to use a forum for free advice.

There are procedures for consultation which most organisations undertake, and in which I happily participate.

My comment is there were more errors than seemed reasonable and the reference to 'us professionals' seemed to me inappropriate. I was pergfectly right to ask if you were a student doing a dissertation. You should have explained better who you were, preferably identifying a practice or a Health Service Trust, if the Moderators would allow. Otherwise you could be anybody.