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Autism Assessments
Why choose our Private Autism Assessments?
When seeking a diagnosis for your child, the quality and acceptance of the assessment reports are everything. Here's what sets our service apart from the rest:
Trusted and Recognised Reports
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NICE Compliant: Our assessments strictly follow the latest guidelines set by the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE). This is the official UK benchmark for quality healthcare.
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Expert Team: Your child's assessment is conducted by a multidisciplinary team of highly trained Autism Specialist Educational Psychologists and Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapists.
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Widely Accepted: Our comprehensive reports are fully recognised and accepted by local authorities, including schools and the NHS, ensuring a smooth path to future support.
The Gold Standard in Diagnosis
We use the most respected diagnostic tools available to provide the most accurate outcome for your family:
ADOS-2 & ADi-R: Our clinicians are certified and highly experienced in administering the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule 2 (ADOS-2) and the Autism Diagnostic Interview (ADi-R).
Thorough Assessment: These world leading tools provide the essential framework our specialists uses to determine whether a child meets the official criteria for an autism diagnosis.
The result is a diagnosis you can trust, delivered with confidence and compassion.
Beyond a Diagnosis: Bespoke Support Plans
While most private providers of autism assessment follow a similar path, we do things a little differently by putting Educational Psychology at the heart of the process. As our focus is specifically on children and young people who are all in some form of education we believe a diagnosis is only the first step. We don't just provide a label: we take a deep dive into how autism specially shapes your child's learning and daily school life.
We then take what we learn during the assessment and turn it into practical everyday support that teachers can actually use. By interpreting your child's unique profile to show schools exactly how to support them, ensures they don't just get by but truly thrive in their learning environment.
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Our Assessment Process: A Step-by-Step Guide
Information Gathering
We will need you and your child’s school to compete a questionnaire to gain deeper insights into how your child communicates and interacts with others and any specific challenges they experience.
Parent Meeting
A key part of the assessment is understanding your child’s current and early childhood, which is why you will meet with our psychologist to go into quite a lot of depth about your child’s developmental history using the ADI-R (Autism Diagnostic Interview Revised).
Child Assessment
Your child will meet with a trained member of the team, who will spend some time using toys, games and conversation to understand how your child sees the world. Whilst it should be a fun experience for your child, the examiner will be using an evidence-based tool to assess your child against the criteria relevant to autism. This tool is called the ADOS-2 (Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule).
Diagnostic Report
After your child’s assessment, our clinicians will compile all the gathered information into a comprehensive report. You will receive a bespoke diagnostic report with personalised recommendations three weeks from the date of the feedback meeting.
Parental Feedback
Our psychologist will meet with you virtually to discuss and explain the findings of your child's autism assessment.
Team Discussion
After the assessment, the team will meet to thoroughly review all available information. They will then determine whether your child meets the DSM-V criteria for autism or whether their presentation can be better explained by something else, for example, anxiety or learning difficulties.
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Assessment
Fee: £2,200
Includes:
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Comprehensive face-to-face assessment
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Multidisciplinary team evaluation
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Detailed diagnostic report
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Personalised recommendations for support in school and at home
Minimum Age for Assessment: We accept referrals for children from 4 years to 25 years old
If your child is younger than 4 years old, we ask for a recent Paediatrician's report. This ensures a focused and effective assessment by confirming that other potential developmental conditions have been ruled out and that a diagnostic autism assessment is the appropriate next step.