Hi evryone havnt been on for a while, taylor got diagnosed in january this year as having core autism, we are waiting for a scat appointment,, which is a team of six people, a speech and language therapist, a special needs teacher,a educational physcologist.a disabilities social worker, a consultant paeditrician, and a specialist speech and language therapist. and its this team what have to put all ther separate info together to make the diagnosis,as its not justifiable for one person to diagnose, wev been to his pre assesment scat today to get evrything medical ruled out as in hearing tests ect, and this was done by the paeditrician the head off the scat team,,, and to be honest she made me feel today as tho ther is nothin wrong with him!!! she sed ohh hes has communication,, autistic children dont usually have tht much,,,, ohh hes toilet trained,, autistic children arnt usually toilet trained tht kind off stuff then i asked her so is he autistic nd she went well hes been gud today hasnt he,, hhhmmmmm i cant really tell!!!! yet she had a huge file of assesments what have been dun of people what have said to me yes sarah your son is autistic,, and apparantly she has final say at the scat meeting,,if i get to this scat appt in sept nd she says i dont think its autism where would i go from ther???

Wow - no wonder you're confused! My son was diagnosed with ASD too - though I'm interested to know what 'core' autism is? He was diagnosed by 2 Paedetricians, Speech and Language, Ed Psychologist and Portage. We haven't had any multi team meetings yet but lots of reports by different people have been written.

I can't believe how different parts of the country operate so differently when it comes to appts, specialists etc!! We ended up with Jack's diagnosis after we asked for an assessment as we were concerned that something wasn't quite right with his development. Glad we did as we now know where we are heading.

Is there any one specialist you see more than the others - could you express your concerns and frustration to them?

Frustating i know and always worse with a bad doctor!
Maybe you could ask for another doctor in the mean time?
Other than that you could wait for the assesment and then ask for a follow up under another clinic?
Failing that you could have an independent assesment from Bibic http://www.bibic.org.uk/

Confused isnt the word lol, i am guna av a word wiv the educational physcologist on friday shes also on the scat assesment, and shes the one that enroled me on the national autistic society earlybird course!!? see what she says,,, then jus go to the assesment and go from ther nd see what happens

Well, lots and lots of luck! Good job we all have nerves of steel and buckets of stamina isn't it, and thank goodness for the backup we get from this forum! xx