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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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Autism and ADHD Pathway

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

Introduction

The pre-assessment pathway documents for Autism and ADHD can be found on this page (also known as Neurodevelopmental Pre-Assessment Pathway).

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

important

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

Sensory processing

We know that many, but not all, neurodivergent people have sensory processing difficulties so the Sensory Processing pathway may be helpful.

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 updated: June 27, 2024

Next review due: December 27, 2024

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