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Recommendation please: Assessment of girls

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I hope my title isn't offensive to anyone. I finally got a referral for my kids from work GP and have a choice of private assessment. Referral is for open psych assessment as GP wasn't sure about autism in particular about my daughter. I now need to choose somewhere appropriate preferably not too far away. Around N/E London area. 

Has anyone had a good experience of starting out with descriptions of "behaviour difficulties" that don't meet with prejudice, especially in girls? If you have any recommendations for good places/people and time to explain briefly the process they used, I'd be really grateful.

I am really scared that by going further I'm putting my kids in for a rough ride with the whole process. I haven't been diagnosed myself but identified a high number of traits and I'm so afraid I'm about to mess up my kids even more seeing as they get judged enough already as it is.

Thank you in advance.

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  • We have held back getting my son diagnosed for years, we felt it wouldn’t change things so it wasn’t worth the energy, then we had a really bad experience with a change of head teacher and found out that if he needed a place at a specialist centre he needed a diagnosis so we are waiting for a reputable private assessment. 

    We also have a daughter who I think has Autism and one of the best masking capabilities I’ve ever seen, she stems by singing which is problematic for me but all in all she’s pretty awesome, we aren’t getting her assessed but have spoken about her brother quite a bit and have an emergency plan just in case.

    we’ve always looked at what benefits there are to diagnosis, with hindsight I’d say as soon as anyone mentions behavioural issues it’s time to diagnose as they need the protection it will bring.

    Where are you in the EHCP process?

  • in reply to LongSpoons

    I 'stem' through music as well. Do you think she might be interested in not just singing but collecting music by recording and then playing it over and over in her headphones? A path toward music production and can be a good outlet as well as a career path where she could be more her natural self and still accepted.

  • in reply to JuniperFromGallifrey

    She also reads and writes a lot (maybe 5000 words a day) I think she’s got dozens of half finished manuscripts but I think that’s also her masking process. I think this is a brilliant place for her to be as she will have the opportunity to build her own world how she wants it.

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