Introduction
The pre-assessment pathway documents for Autism and ADHD can be found on this page (also known as Neurodevelopmental Pre-Assessment Pathway).
These documents have been developed in collaboration with education, health and care colleagues as well as parent carers, children and young people. They have been developed to support education settings, practitioners, and parent carers so that everyone better understands the pre-assessment pathway.
If you have any questions about the pathway or the documents on this page, please email: AutismADHDPreassessmentPathway@somerset.gov.uk
Support available at the earliest stage
Services that support children and young people at the earliest stage without a need for a diagnosis include:
- Parent and Family Support Advisors (PFSA)
- Family Intervention Service (FIS)
- Children and Young People’s Therapy Service – Occupational Therapy
- Children and Young People’s Therapy Service – Speech and Language Therapy
- Early Years SEND Service – Inclusion Advisers
- Early Years SEND Service – Early Years Area SENCOs
- Educational Psychology Service (EPS)
- Access to Inclusion Team (autism and communication specialist advisory teachers)
- Autism Friendly Libraries and The Somerset Neurodiversity Collection
- Somerset Parent Carer Forum (SPCF)
- Young Somerset
- SENDIAS
Sensory processing
We know that many, but not all, neurodivergent people have sensory processing difficulties so the Sensory Processing pathway may be helpful.
WISE Up Workshops
Being a parent carer of a child or young person with additional needs can bring extra situations which are challenging to know how to handle. To help support parent carers navigate these a range of workshops have been created by Somerset Parent Carer Forum based on the subjects you have told them would be helpful.
The idea behind the project is to empower parent carers through Workshops for Information, Support and Education. All the workshops are delivered or co-delivered by someone with lived experience of being a parent carer.
Find out more on the WISE Up Workshops page.
Next Steps Form
If evidence is gathered that indicates a child or young person may have either Autism and/or ADHD a ‘Neurodevelopmental Next Steps’ form should be completed to request an assessment. The form and advice is on the Neurodevelopmental Next Steps Form page.
