Valuing Minds Limited

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Service categories: Diagnosticians, Schools and education providers

Service URL: https://www.valuingminds.com

Valuing Minds is a Hertfordshire-based Educational Psychology consultancy providing services for 0 – 25 year olds, their parents or carers and their school or college in Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and North London primarily.

As well as our other services, we are now able to offer autism assessments. We adopt a ‘Gold Standard’ approach to such assessments, which will be conducted by a multi-disciplinary team.

The assessment is likely to include:

An exploration of developmental history via a semi-structured interview with parents/caregivers, lasting approximately 3 hours (Autism Diagnostic Interview, Revised - ADI-R).
Observation of your child in nursery, school or college and a discussion with teachers, if required.
A structured assessment of your child lasting approximately 1 hour (Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule-Second Edition - ADOS-2).
Review of relevant recent professional reports.
Discussion of outcomes within the diagnostic team.
Report to include recommendations.

Our fees for autism assessments including ADOS2 and ADI-R are in the region of £2250 (not including travel expenses). Educational psychology assessments cost £1550 (not including travel expenses. Attendance at tribunal costs including reading 'the bundle' £900. Valuing Minds are VAT registered and while assessments are VAT exempt (except in the case of medicolegal work) other costs may have VAT added.

Eligibility

Age: For people of any age

Aimed at: Adolescent , Child , Child/adolescent sibling, Children under the age of 12 years, children with complex needs and their parents or carers, Parent or carer of under 18, Parent/carer of a child, Parent/carer of a young person, Parents or carers, families, adults, School

Referral Sources: Private Only

Covers: Cambridgeshire, East Midlands, East of England, South East

Registrations & Approaches

Specialisms: Achieved Autism Access Award, Autism, Autism and Neurodivergent , Challenging behaviour, Has autism-specific elements, Has autism-specific elements, Learning disability

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In response to a rising demand and growing waiting lists, the Valuing Minds team of trained and qualified professionals can conduct appropriate diagnostic assessments to provide you with confirmation as to whether your child does, or does not, meet the threshold for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) also known as Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC).

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