The Assessment Process
The AAC assessment is tailored specifically to your individual needs and situation, ensuring a personalised approach rather than a "one-size-fits-all" solution.
Each assessment includes a detailed personal interview to explore how a neurodevelopmental condition may have impacted your past and current situation. We'll discuss how a potential diagnosis could enhance your understanding of your strengths and challenges.
You will be asked to nominate someone familiar with your childhood and development, such as a parent, grandparent, sibling, friend, or former teacher.
We utilise evidence-based assessment tools that adhere to the guidelines of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE): NICE Guidelines & NICE Guidance.
Following the completion of interviews, tests, and questionnaires, your data will be reviewed in our weekly multidisciplinary team meeting. You will then receive an assessment report detailing any diagnosis and how to make sense of it. This assessment report is yours and you may wish to share this assessment report with others, such as your GP or employer etc. If you want the AAC to send this assessment report to your GP, employer etc. There is an additional administrative fee of £125.
Please note that a diagnosis of Autism or ADHD is not guaranteed. If our findings do not meet the diagnostic criteria, this will be clearly explained in your assessment report.
The Four Assessment Steps
Your assessment happens in four steps, once you have decided what is right for you.
You can choose to be assessed for ASD or ADHD or for both conditions.
If you wish to know more about our assessment process, please contact us.
Step One
The first step is an ‘on-boarding’ process when we will ask you to fill out your personal details, questionnaires and a consent form for the assessment.
Step Two
If we agree to assess you, in step two, we will ask you to name somebody that knew you well during your developmental phases, childhood and teens to answer questions about your early development.
Step Three
The third step is your appointment:
This is a face to face appointment.
You will have an interview with one of our experienced clinicians, a consultant psychiatrist or consultant clinical psychologist.
We might ask you to engage with diagnostic tests, for ASD such as the ADOS-2 and for ADHD, the Qb Test, or other tools.
Step Four
The fourth step is about the outcome and the feedback to you.
The assessment will be discussed by the AAC multidisciplinary team.
Whether or not you receive a diagnosis of ADHD or Autism, you will have a detailed assessment report,
The report is yours and you can choose if you want AAC to share it with other people, or not (your GP, employer, etc.). If you want the AAC to share the report there is an additional administrative fee of £125.
You have the option to attend another appointment to discuss the outcome of the assessment. This can be face to face or online. You can bring a person for support and to help you remember the discussion.
