Autism assesment !

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Guys can you tell me what to expect my son he’s 5 will be having his long awaited assessment in September what will they say to me what tests will they do —- I feel like he isn’t going to display what he displays at home like spinning and repeating himself and doing backflips every time he eats a chicken nugget lol x

Well, none of that strikes me as abnormal 5yr old behaviour! But once you’re off the waiting list and have the first assessment booked, they’ll arrange with you, to have a very long chat without your child there, this is done with a Child Psychologist. Takes about 2 hours, where they’ll ask you lots & lots of questions.
Then on a different day, they’ll take your son into a room without you, where there’ll be a number of assessors present and your son will be given activities to do whilst they observe. You’ll be sat in the waiting room for this. Then there’ll be a visit to school where they observe his social interactions. After all of this is done, then you’ll meet up with the Child Psychologist again at a later date, to be given the results.

You may want to take that image down, as it has your child's name on it.