Autistic Assessment ADOS

[phantom sneeze]

It appears that some time in the future a clinical psychogist is going to administer an assessment to determine if I have autism from what i can gather from my medical notes I recently got from hospital. What does it entail?

[Sally44]

It is usually asking some background and family history questions as well as more specific questions about how you react to certain things or situations. Is it the ADOS they are going to do?

 

This is a link to Wiki about this assessment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism_Diagnostic_Observation_Schedule

 

I think it is natural to want to know what the assessment will entail, but at the same time you need to go into that assessment with as little foreknowledge as possible, otherwise you could affect the outcome of that assessment by thinking beforehand how you 'should' respond to certain questions or situations, rather than how you would 'typically' respond.

Edited February 12, 2013 by Sally44