For children, teens & adults
Autism Assessment Services
When communication, sensory experiences, routines, or daily demands remain difficult to understand, an assessment can clarify the person’s profile and guide appropriate support.
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Start with your questions
What are you trying to understand?
Autism may look different across ages and settings. Choose the pathway that is closest to your situation.
For children and teens
- Why does my child struggle with social interaction, play, or conversations?
- Why are routines, changes, sensory experiences, or transitions so difficult?
- Could this be autism, ADHD, anxiety, a learning difficulty, a speech-language concern, or something else?
For adults
- Why do social situations feel confusing, exhausting, or hard to navigate?
- Why do sensory input, sudden changes, or unspoken expectations feel overwhelming?
- Have I been masking or coping for years without understanding my profile?
Your profile map
What autism assessment can clarify
A careful assessment looks across connected areas to build a clearer picture of the person’s strengths, needs, and support profile.
Social communication
Conversation style, non-verbal communication, social understanding, relationships, play, perspective-taking, and social fatigue.
Sensory experience
Sensory sensitivity, sensory seeking, overwhelm triggers, regulation, and strategies that may help.
Routines & change
Need for predictability, repetitive behaviours, strong interests, flexibility, transitions, and responses to uncertainty.
Daily functioning
How the profile affects school, work, family life, relationships, independence, mental health, and support planning.
Assessment is not about reducing a person to a label. It is about understanding their needs, strengths, and support profile.
Why clarity matters
The same behaviour can have different explanations
Autism can look different across people
Autism may involve differences in social communication, sensory processing, routines, interests, emotional regulation, learning, and daily functioning. Not everyone shows the same pattern.
Clarity guides more suitable support
Assessment helps families and individuals understand the broader pattern instead of relying only on surface behaviours, assumptions, or one isolated symptom.
A respectful process
Autism assessment is more than a label
Assessment is…
- A structured process to understand developmental and current functioning
- A way to consider communication, sensory experiences, routines, strengths, and daily impact
- A guide for family, school, workplace, therapy, or referral planning
- A starting point for more compassionate self-understanding
Assessment is not…
- A quick online quiz or casual checklist
- A judgment of intelligence, worth, or potential
- A way to blame parents, schools, employers, or the person
- A one-size-fits-all answer for every social or sensory difficulty
A respectful, individualised process
What happens during autism assessment?
The exact plan depends on age, concerns, available background information, and the assessment scope. You will receive the recommended plan before testing begins.
Initial consultation
We understand the concerns, developmental history, current context, and what you hope to clarify.
Assessment plan and written quotation
The psychologist recommends suitable tools, sessions, scope, expected timeline, and provides a written quotation before testing.
Testing and information gathering
Interviews, questionnaires, observations, and relevant developmental or contextual information may be used.
Scoring, interpretation and written report
The psychologist integrates the evidence, considers autism and other explanations, and prepares a written report when included in the agreed scope.
Feedback, recommendations and next steps
You receive clear findings, strengths, support needs, and practical next steps.
Who conducts the assessment? Assessments are conducted by qualified clinical psychologists. The psychologist and assessment scope are matched to the client’s age, concerns and referral question. Meet our clinical psychologists.
Depending on the person’s age, developmental history, communication profile, health, and support needs, the psychologist may recommend collateral information or input from medical, speech-language, occupational, educational, or other relevant professionals.
Before your appointment
Plan your visit with confidence
See our actual consultation rooms, MRT walking directions, maps, opening hours and what to expect when you arrive.
Plan Your VisitAfter the assessment
Turn findings into more informed support
Clearer understanding
Findings can explain communication, sensory experiences, routines, strengths, and daily functioning in a more balanced way.
Written report where applicable
Depending on the assessment scope, you may receive a written report with findings, interpretation, and recommendations.
Next-step support plan
Recommendations may include parent guidance, school or workplace strategies, therapy, accommodations, or referral to other professionals.
Common concerns
It is normal to feel unsure before asking
“Will my child be labelled?”
A diagnosis, when appropriate, should not reduce a child to a label. It should help adults understand the child’s needs, strengths, and support environment more clearly.
“Can adults be assessed?”
Yes. Some adults begin exploring autism after years of masking, social exhaustion, sensory overwhelm, or feeling different without knowing why. These experiences can be relevant to discuss, but they do not establish an autism diagnosis on their own. Assessment considers them alongside early developmental history, current functioning, observation, and other possible explanations.
“What if it is not autism?”
That can still be useful to know. Other neurodevelopmental, mental-health, communication, medical, sensory, and contextual factors may resemble or occur alongside autism-related concerns. A careful assessment considers alternative explanations and co-occurring support needs rather than relying on one isolated feature.
“Does autism mean something is wrong?”
No. Autism describes a neurodevelopmental profile. Assessment should support understanding, dignity, and practical help rather than shame or blame.
Before you decide
Frequently asked questions
You can also begin with an initial consultation if you are unsure whether autism assessment is suitable.
What is autism assessment?
Autism assessment is a structured process that helps clarify whether a person’s social communication, sensory experiences, routines, interests, developmental history, and daily functioning may fit autism or may be better explained by other factors.
Is there one test that can confirm autism?
No single test can confirm autism on its own. A careful assessment usually considers developmental history, current functioning, interviews, questionnaires, observations, and professional clinical interpretation.
Can children and adults both do autism assessment?
Yes. Children, teens, and adults may seek autism assessment. The process and information needed may differ depending on age, developmental history, school or work context, and current concerns.
What signs may suggest autism?
Concerns may include social communication differences, difficulty with changes or transitions, sensory sensitivity, repetitive behaviours, strong interests, emotional overwhelm, or differences in play, relationships, or daily routines. These signs should be interpreted professionally because people can present differently.
Can autism occur together with ADHD, anxiety, or learning difficulties?
Yes. Autism may co-occur with ADHD, anxiety, learning difficulties, language concerns, emotional regulation difficulties, and other support needs. A good assessment considers the broader profile rather than one isolated symptom.
How many sessions are needed?
The number of sessions depends on the person’s age, presenting concerns, assessment tools, and report scope. After the initial intake, the psychologist can propose the assessment plan and estimated pricing.
Can I ask first before deciding?
Yes. If you are unsure whether autism assessment is suitable, you can start with an initial consultation.
Ready to gain clarity and take the next step?
Book an appointment and let us understand the concerns before recommending the assessment plan.
