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Assessment outcome - Would/did you take your child?

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Morning all. After some advice please? My son's 13 and, if he is autistic then he is pretty 'high functioning' (though I do struggle with that term).

He's been through assessment via Clinical Partners (NHS are using them to cut down waiting list) and we've been offered a feedback appointment next Monday evening. When I asked if our son should come along too they said it was up to us! I've not done this before and I now don't know whether it's best to go without him.

He's not met the psychiatrist who will be delivering the verdict: we saw her and he saw a psychologist (who started the assessment with "Do you know anyone autistic? do you think you're like them"? And then I had to leave.). It feels like it's his life so he ought to be there, but at the same time discussion can be more frank if he's not.

I'm interested to know what others with older children have done in this situation?

Thanks

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  • Thanks so much everyone for your replies. I've been unable to sign in for a week for some reason so only now can I respond. I asked my son what he wanted and he was keen not to go as "I already know how I work, so you can talk about any problems they saw without me". As it was, the appointment only lasted about 20 minutes anyway, the last 5 minutes of which was me asking for more clarity about diagnosis now that autism/HFA are no longer used apparently. She seemed to be saying that the diagnosis is now a blanket term of autism for all levels which seems odd.

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  • Thanks so much everyone for your replies. I've been unable to sign in for a week for some reason so only now can I respond. I asked my son what he wanted and he was keen not to go as "I already know how I work, so you can talk about any problems they saw without me". As it was, the appointment only lasted about 20 minutes anyway, the last 5 minutes of which was me asking for more clarity about diagnosis now that autism/HFA are no longer used apparently. She seemed to be saying that the diagnosis is now a blanket term of autism for all levels which seems odd.

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