Help with pre-referral parent professional social communication questionnaire for dd13

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Hi, school have sent me this questionnaire and it doesn't seem to have much relevance to ds's difficulties. She's 13 and in the top set for all but one subject and has mainly sensory and friendship difficulties. I don't expect school to identify any difficulties at all because she's so bright.I'll attach some pictures of it. I can see we are going to have to make lots of notes in addition. On separate pages as the comments box is tiny. How can I fill this in and ensure her difficulties are noted?

And it's difficult to know some things as I'm autistic myself so I'm not a good gauge of normal!

Anyone?

Can you provide more context about what this questionnaire is for?

Sorry, it's for autism

Sorry I wasn’t clear! I’m more wondering what part of the assessment process this is? Is this to decide whether to make referral or is it to help decide whether to make a diagnosis for example? Who will be reading this questionnaire once you have filled it in? Just because that might affect how you make your additional notes. Regardless if this doesn’t capture the difficulties then you will need to add some additional info. I hope this isn’t proving very stressful for you.

Sorry again, I'm not explaining well. It's the very first assessment that school have sent us to see if a referral is warranted. I've no idea who things will be shared with.

It’s my bad!

What I think looks a little odd about this questionnaire is that some of the questions are regarding things that as a parent you likely wouldn’t be the one to observe as they would only happen in school. I’m a little thrown by that. And it’s not for sure that your DD would be able to report some of these challenges in school to you as she may not be aware of them. And as you’ve suggested you also have ASD so, by way of example, your non verbal communication between you and your DD may work really well while an NT person would struggle to read her. So it’s all very complex!

I guess I would think on each point if you can try hard to come up with any concrete example of something that happened may indicate a “concern” in that domain. So long as you can come up with one single example, you should say there’s a concern.

The goal here to to get a referral which you know is warranted regardless so definitely don’t play things down.

I can only see the first page of your form, the rest is too small on the PC.
However, that looks more like a form that school would complete, how would a parent ever think of evaluating their child's ability as laid out in those questions?
How would a parent ever observe a child in those situations?

I've completed a lot of forms and questionnares for now adult DD and never seen one with those type of questions.

I think school MAY have sent you the wrong form, it's worth querying.

A bit of googling has come up with this, it's for the Manchester area, but I'm sure other areas will have similar.
mft.nhs.uk/rmch/services/camhs/young-people/social-communication-pathway-autism-assessment/#refer

It has downloadble forms, have a look at the Parent Referral Form which downloads as a Word doc, that is much more the type of questions that parents are usually asked to complete pre-referral.