Asperger evaluation

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If I'm accepted to do the evaluation, it will be 5 days long, morning only.
It's an hospital who is specialised in autism.

For those who got an evaluation, how much long it was ?

We don't have such evaluations here in Perth (western australia) so I can't answer...

Here its only through highly paid psychologists, which is just as good if they know their stuff.

The first one I had (with a psychologist) probably lasted 6 or 7 hours total...I went there in hour or hour-and-a-half periods. The second one (psychiatrist) was, I think, 3 sessions, and I don't remember if they were an hour or an hour a nd a half. The third one (neurologist) was only a couple hours. The last one (neuropsychologist) was probably the longest, maybe 8 hours total including intake interview, tests and being given the results.

Is this in Canada?

It varies. Some evals a 1,2,3 days long, but those are usually highly structured, formal evals, often done by a neuropsycholgist. Some evals are rather "informal" like mine. I was "informally" dx'd over the course of being treated for depression, where I met regularly with a psychologist and psychotherapist, seperately, to determine what, if any, other conidition may be an underlying factor to my chronic depression. Over a few months, I was evaluated for other possible conditions, but those were ruled out. I actually brought up the possibilty of AS myself, but it was several weeks before both the psychologist and therapist felt like they understood what I was experiencing well enough to say it could be AS.

Took them two years for me. I apparently was so confusing to them that they had to run many different tests on me, my brain, just everything.

Yes, Rivieres des Prairies hospital at Montreal.

What is an evaluation for?

To know if I have Asperger or something else.

Oh

I had to go to a psychiatric hospital to have mine.

but then again: I was ten years old at the time.

In some universities they're looking for candidate for research, maybe they're looking for AS, I don't know too much about him yet but does Tony Attwood still live in Australia, I'm gonna look about him, he wrote a book on AS.

On Tony Attwood web site in the links section, Wrong Planet is there !

Well.. I'll see what the psychologist says tomorrow.. She'll probably have enough info for West Australians looking.

She has a 3 months waiting list, so I'm sure she knows something about developmental disorders.

3 months, wow, here it's from 11 to 14 months !