If you went private, which professional did you see and how many appointments did it take?

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Basically were over a yr down the line with NHS, no further forward than we were last yr. He sees ed psych, paed and family liason. dr wont refer to camhs because of length of waiting list and she said services overlap with paed anyway so not worth it
Things are getting desperate now, so even though we cant really afford to, want to look at how much going private will cost.

Did you go private? we have looked at private OT, price for 1hr consultation= £100.
who is able to diagnose asd, aspergers/adhd etc? who is best to do so?

did a private diagnosis help? did paeds accept it? what difficulties did you have? did it cost you alot of money? what sort of timescale did it take?

If you have private health insurance(we havent currently) can you see specialists through them(ie they absorb some/all of the cost?)

thanks

I've only been down the private SALT route, rather than DX route, so others will be able to advise better on that score. I imagine that if you take out private health insurance it would be highly likely to exclude pre-existing problems unfortunately.

Thanks. iwearflairs- so did the private health insurance help with the cost of the initial assessments/dx? then you had to fund the after dx help?

bumping for any further experiences

at the moment im am funding Ds orthotics privately as nhs waitiningtimes are very bad here

Did try funding salt privatley but atm am unable to find one locally who is able to deal with ds complex language needs