Have name changed for this as don’t want to risk outing dd. Has anyone had any experience of an ASD assessment for a Y11 girl? Dd has been struggling with acute anxiety in school which has been getting worse. She’s academically very able but puts herself under huge amounts of pressure and is often paralysed by perfectionism so takes much longer than she should to finish essays etc. She finds the hustle and bustle of school very hard to deal with and often takes herself off to the library at lunch and break times (despite being in a not particularly big school with excellent pastoral care). She doesn’t seem to have problems outside school but avoids socialising and spends all her free time with her horse. She has a history of self-harming and there is a family history of ASD. The SENCO would like her to be assessed by an educational psychologist to see if there’s an underlying cause for the anxiety - googling the person she’s been referred to, they seem to be a specialist in autism and girls and I know that ASD often presents later in girls.
I was just hoping to hear from anyone else who’s gone through something similar with their dd