How many pages was your written assessment?

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The letter to my GP with details of the diagnosis was 3 pages and I assume it's this one you mean, but my longest assessment I think is my needs assessment which has 19 pages.

You've done pretty well despite all this.

I have never seen my assessment where there were scores and stuff. But from my psychiatrist he has written a few reports about me and one of them was about 4-5 pages long and the there was like two and then the other was one page and that is all I have from him. I don't know if there was anymore but they are printed copies than original copies.

I also have a thick folder about me and those are all my medical records from over the years and my school medical records and IEP reports. It would take more than three hours to read through it all and lot of them are duplicates because copies have been made before.

Greetings. Mine was 26 pages. 15 pages were for the written portion and 11 pages were the scores on test. Mine was not just autism diagnosis testing. It also included learning disabilities, AD/HD (I don't think this section was thorough enough), and mental illness (barely touched it, since I was seeing a psychiatrist or just saw a psychiatrist at the time).
Written part:
1-3 Introduction/History
4-7 Learning Disabilities
7-11 Autism Spectrum Disorder
11-12 Summary of Assessment (includes diagnosis)
12-15 Recommendations (ie therapies I should be in, accommodations for school, etc.)

Scores:
1 How Scoring Works
2-10 Learning Disability Scores
5-8 AD/HD and Executive Functions Scores (also considered under LD for attention and EF)
10-11 Autism Spectrum Disorder Scores

So you see, mine would be shorter if you looked just at my autism spectrum disorder diagnosis, but I was diagnosed with a learning disability at the time too, so there were more tests, scores, and recommendations.

I wish the AD/HD part wasn't so highly relied on how my parent and teacher see me, since I do well in school obviously means that I can't have AD/HD (sarcasm, and I know I can). My mom and teacher both didn't report working memory problems, but yet I have working memory problems. The psychologist also didn't check any executive functions that didn't fully relate to autism (she checked problem solving/concept recognition and cognitive flexibility, processing speed, fluency, and efficiency, and response inhibition). I wished that she did check more stuff related to AD/HD other than working memory like planning, organization, stuff like this. Working memory was only flagged because I did the WAIS-IV, and scored a 9th and 16th percentile on two of the four working memory tests, which is considered a concern.

The other thing was they barely touched on mental illness because they said that if I had a psychiatrist that they would have done a good job screening, but yet my teacher reported depression symptoms in me (like persistent depressive disorder for me now) and my psychiatrist didn't know it, and the report mentions this, but nothing was done about it.

So many things were thoroughly examined in my assessment, while others were not in my opinion.

I feel I will need to do another thing like this to see if I have AD/HD or not (not as detailed for sure though).

26 pages
11 pages of writing and 15 pages of scores
It was humbling to read.

Mine was about 10 pages of mistakes, lies, exaggerations and unfair stereotypes.

Yes, I am traumatized. You can tell, right?

LOL.

I have no idea who my doctor was in 1964. He's probably been dead a long time.

4 to 5 pages. I haven't seen it for so long. My mom misplaced it too many times, including at least more than 2 copies of it.

I feel somehow it's incomplete. And my diagnostician doesn't do any labels, so he probably do most of it orally.

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Mine was eighteen pages long, with my actual diagnosis written on page 15. My report went over my background and reported difficulties, then charted my scores on all the tests I took and had written explanations for what the scores meant, then the diagnosis page, and the last three pages were recommendations for follow-up treatment and supports, like specific therapies, a suggestion to try anxiolytics (I barely missed a diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder), books to read (which I'd already read), and suggested supports for my work and school. It was very thorough, and I felt the information was very accurate and both matched what I'd told the diagnostician, and fit with my personal experiences (as far as the test scores went).