ADOS assessment

[SnowyMouse]

Has anyone had this as an adult, what was it like?

I don't think I had one, but ds2 did when he was 17 last year.

It is really best not to know what it's like as it will affect your responses.

I'd observed my son's ADOS years earlier and completely forgotten what it involved! Which was good as I would have acted differently if I'd remembered, and I wouldn't have been able to stop myself working through scenarios etc.

I did one recently. It was mostly things like reading from books, making up stories, very much like I'd expect the child ADOS to be honestly, along with a lot of questions about what problems I had been having, often ones repeated from the form they sent me.

My son was little when he had his. I thought that he was going to be found not autistic but the assessor looked for subtleties.

I didn't need an ados. Clearly autistic without. 🙄 it was a possibility if the phone appointments were not conclusive.

That's a good point about not wanting to bias it.