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What you can expect when going through the Autism and/or ADHD Assessment Pathway

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Autism and ADHD Pathway

What you can expect when going through the Autism and/or ADHD Assessment Pathway

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Pre Assessment Autism and ADHD Pathway

Receiving support at the earliest stage without the need for a diagnosis. Making a smooth transition to assessment for those who require it.

Pre Assessment Autism and ADHD PathwayAutism and ADHD SENCO Discussion Group
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Assessment

Equality of access and service quality across the county ensuring NICE compliant assessments for those who require it.

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Post Assessment Autism and ADHD Pathway

Appropriate support for those who receive a diagnosis, and signposting for those who don't.

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Introduction

The pre-assessment pathway documents for Autism and ADHD can be found on this page. These documents have been developed in collaboration with education, health and care colleagues as well as parent carers, children and young people. They have been developed to support education settings, practitioners, and parent carers so that everyone better understands the pre-assessment pathway.

If you have any questions about the pathway or the documents on this page, please email: AutismADHDPreassessmentPathway@somerset.gov.uk

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The needs of a child or young person should be met within the education setting without a formal diagnosis.

Schools/education settings, parents and carers are able to apply for an Education, Health and Care Needs Assessment (EHC) without a diagnosis of Autism and/or ADHD

Support available at the earliest stage

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This document is designed to support education settings, practitioners and parent carers so that everyone better understands the pre-assessment pathway.

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Services that support children and young people at the earliest stage without a need for a diagnosis include:

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Pre assessment pathway for possible autism and ADHD interventions graduated response. The purpose of this document is to outline possible interventions, which after careful screening for special education needs, should be implemented immediately rather than wait for a possible diagnosis.

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WISE Up Workshops

Being a parent carer of a child or young person with additional needs can bring extra situations which are challenging to know how to handle. To help support parent carers navigate these a range of workshops have been created by Somerset Parent Carer Forum based on the subjects you have told them would be helpful.

The idea behind the project is to empower parent carers through Workshops for Information, Support and Education.  All the workshops are delivered or co-delivered by someone with lived experience of being a parent carer.

Find out more on the WISE Up Workshops page.

Last reviewed: November 29, 2023 by Gemma

Next review due: May 29, 2024

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