Type of service: Child Development Centres (CDC), Diagnostic services

Website: http://www.nhslanarkshire.org.uk

A locality based community assessment and diagnostic process, Community Assessment Service (CAS), sees most children. The Paediatric Autism Consultancy Team (PAC) acts as a second/highly specialist opinion facility when necessary.

Assessment procedure: Information is collected from records and professional reports. The nursery or school is visited to discuss with relevant staff and observe the child. A clinical assessment is then carried out which involves family history and child assessment/diagnosis. Initial feedback is given and then a report is sent to the family and all agreed professionals.

Follow up service: None, the family are passed on to local health/education/social service.

Multi-disciplinary assessment: Yes - members of the team include paediatrics and speech and language therapists, with input as required from Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), Educational Psychologist and others as required by individual cases.

Aimed at: Adolescent , Child , Young person

Gender: All genders

Referral Sources: NHS Only

Covers: Lanarkshire

Specialisms: Exclusively autism specific

Other specialisms: ASD, Autism, School-age children

Approaches and tools used: ADOS, Australian Scale for Asperger Syndrome, CARS, DISCO