How to get DD tested for ADD/ASD/Dyslexia

[PerverseConverse]

Hi, my daughter is 11 and off to secondary school next month. I've suspected for years that she is dyslexic but school showed no interest in doing anything about this. Her says scores were good apart from
Spelling which was abysmal despite being bright. I also strongly suspect, having read up on things (due to troublesome behaviour), and talking to others about her traits, that she has lots of ADD/ASD traits. I'm probably using the wrong terms here with traits but can't think of a better one. She showed no issues in terms of possible traits until she was about 6 although has always been rather spirited
Her dad (no longer at home) is dyslexic, grandmother dyspraxic, and I score highly on ADD and ASD self tests (which explains a lot 😩).
I don't want her to continue struggling through high school and indeed through life so want to get her assessed. How do I go about this?
Thanks

[PerverseConverse]

Anyone?

[BackforGood]

You needed to have made a list (mentally if you think you will remember, but a lot of people find it helpful to write things down) and then made an appt to go and see the school SENCo - this of course would have been at the school where they knew her - ie, her Primary school.
You could then have gone through your concerns and seen if they shared any of the concerns / had noticed her presenting the same way in school.
Obviously, between two schools, this can't happen and you will have to wait until the new school have got to know her.

You can go and see your GP, to see if they will refer you (to whom, varies, depending where you are in the country). However, one of the first questions they are likely to ask is how she gets on at school, hence the first conversation would have been really useful to have had.

A lot of people can show 'signs' or 'traits' of different conditions. What the diagnostic team would look at is impact - hence evidence of what you might perceive at home also being perceived in other environments, being useful to the diagnostic team.

[PerverseConverse]

Thank you. Its only recently that I've started putting all the pieces together. Her primary school were useless in lots of ways unfortunately but her secondary school should be more on the ball.
I'm going to have a chat with her this next week to try and understand her more. At the moment I've been getting very annoyed with her for various things but having read around a little, it seems that it's not deliberate as thought and that she actually has genuine difficulty in doing things. Organisation for example, social interactions. She's very sociable but lacks good friends and finds friendships difficult. Following instructions, boundaries. There is a definite attention deficit. All school reports have flagged her need to focus more but they've not looked at it in the wider scheme of things. She's had dreadful problems this year with bullying and a lot of that seems to boil down to her perceptions of truth, boundaries and concepts of friendship. She's had a really shit year 6 and I don't want her to ever go through that again.