£1000 for autism assessment?

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We paid $2,000 for the bullet proof assessment, three years ago.

It depends depends on what you need the assessment for when deciding to spend the money. Our doctor was the only one in our state that disability services doesn't discard a new adult diagnosis out of hand. We could have gone cheaper, but then would have had to pay an attorney to fight for disability payments.

Money would have left our wallet either way.

There is a saying, "Fast, Good, Cheap- pick any two".

http://www.sixside.com/fast_good_cheap.asp

This is the private assessment. You can get it quickly and it is done by licensed professionals but you must pay dearly for not being on an NHS waiting list for months or years. It is comparable to what other people have paid for private assessments. You are paying for the convenience of not being on a long waiting list. It is worth the money if and only if it can meet your needs. If your need is personal, that sounds right. But if your need is for official accomodations, you should check first if the people who give the accomodations you need will accept the private assessment as valid to qualify you. If they only accept an NHS assessment, then spending the money for a private one is not worth it.



That's the NHS with its' very long waiting list.




That's self-diagnosing with an online test. It's cheap in that it's free but it's inferior in that it's only a yes/no answer (thus missing any condition that you actually have but were unaware of) and depends entirely on how accurately and objectively you can assess yourself. It also won't be valid for any official accomodations.

So whether the private assessment is worth it or not depends entirely on what you would do with the results and whether it can accomplish what you want it to do. Tawaki's post above mine is an illustration of this.

thanks everyone for replying, this definitely helps me to decide. so I have taken from this that £1000 although expensive is round about the normal price for private assessment.

so all that remains is to ascertain whether the NHS wait is worth it, since I am doing this for personal reasons and have no need for governmental or educational help that the NHS diagnosis might be necessary for I will probably go for it.

lets just hope I am actually right in my suspicions, would be quite embarrassing to have paid that much only to find I am deluding myself

I paid around that much, but the place I went was NHS too, it was just outside my area. I wanted to be assessed by a place that specialised in it, and had experience with adults (and was also impatient and they were very quick).

Having said that when I was researching it I went through the NAS directory and emailed lots of private places and some of them quoted a few hundred pounds. I decided to pay more because I needed certainty, I wanted a whole day of tests and assessments rather than a couple of hours. It is a lot of money, I sold lots of things to pay, but it was worth it.