Worried I haven't represented my son properly in his ADHD assessment

[Gagamama2]

My son is 10 and being assessed for ADHD and autism. This morning I had the 1.5 hour parent interview for it, where it's just me and the assessor talking through things from my perspective. He has the in-person assessment next week.

I'm so nervous that I haven't communicated all the issues. I have ADHD myself and find talking via zoom v awkward, I get distracted watching my own face in the little window and am having flashbacks where I kept staring out of the actual window because I don't like making eye contact and going off on tangents to what she was actually asking. I'm worried I didn't get things across very well and all day I've kept thinking of things I meant to bring up which she didn't ask about. Things that were probably quite significant, like him having tics when he was younger, and walking on his toes until he was 5, and not being into imaginative play, etc.

Has anyone else felt like this after the parent section of the assessment? Maybe the in person one is more important, although my son obviously won't remember his behaviour when he was younger or how he reacted to going to school etc.

Can you type it out and email it to them?

I always worry about getting things across verbally (I feel that I do it much more articulately on paper!) so before any of my DC's assessments (ASD, ADHD, EP, OT, CAMHS), I wrote everything down and emailed it to them.

I found as well that the assessors seemed to appreciate it and they all quoted quite a lot of what I'd written in their reports. The ASD paediatrician actually asked me if I worked in the field as it was exactly the information he needed.

Thanks for your reply, yes I guess I could email them with the things I keep remembering. I am also MUCH more articulate on paper!! I wonder if they need to know them. I thought things like the above would have been bought up to be honest, which would have prompted me to talk about them

If there are things you need to tell them you could definitely email them or write some notes to take to the in-person appointment next week.