Services

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

ADHD is a condition that affects a young person's behavior and often causes difficulty with them being able to actively and fully engage with their school studies. Difficulties are often apparent from a young age but may become more noticeable from a change, such as starting to attend school and when demands are increased educationally from a play-based curriculum in nursery and reception classes to more traditional learning in years 1, 2 and 3.

ADHD assessments with Will Barker assessments will include;

Neurodevelopmental Assessment with parents and/ or caregivers (this can be up to two hours either remotely or face to face at my therapy space)
Completion of parent screening questionnaires
Direct observation of the young person in my clinic setting (This will take 60-90 minutes for a face-to-face appointment)
Liaison with school including formal feedback reports and standardized questionnaires.
If required a structured school consultation with a class teacher and/or special educational needs coordinator (this would be completed remotely over 30-60 minutes)
Conclusion/ Feedback Meeting (this is completed remotely and will take 30 minutes)

Following the assessment, you will receive a formal diagnostic report with an outcome from the assessment with recommendations for implementing at home and school setting.

If you require advice to be provided for an Education, Health and Care Plan this can also be provided for an additional fee following providing you formal feedback of the assessment.

If you are interested in pursuing an assessment please get in touch and we can organise an initial conversation about the process involved and the costs of the assessment.

In addition to the assessment I can also offer post diagnostic psycho-education for parents and the young person which takes around two to three hours.

Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autism is a lifelong developmental disability which affects how people communicate and interact with the world. More than one in 100 people are on the autism spectrum and there are around 700,000 autistic adults and children in the UK. (National Autistic Society 2023) Autism will affect different people in different ways and no two people are the same, however; difficulties can be extreme and debilitating for the young person and their family.

Autism assessments with Will Barker assessments will include;

Neuro-developmental Assessment with parents and/ or caregivers (this can be up to two hours either remotely or face to face at my therapy space)
Completion of parent screening questionnaires
Standardised Autism Interview using either Autism Diagnostic Interview - revised or the Developmental, Dimensional and Diagnostic Interview (3Di) this interview takes approximately two hours online via Ms Teams or WhatsApp Chat Video Call
Direct observation of the young person in my clinic setting (This will take 60-90 minutes for a face-to-face appointment) using a standardised observation; Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule 2 which is a modified assessment based on the young persons expressive language abilities.
Liaison with school including formal feedback reports and standardized questionnaires.
If required a structured school consultation with a class teacher and/or special educational needs coordinator (this would be completed remotely over 30-60 minutes)
Conclusion/ Feedback Meeting (this is completed remotely and will take 30 minutes)