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Adult Autism & ADHD Assessment

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Neurodivergent affirming testing and support

Using conversational interviews, we take a collaborative, accommodating, and neurodivergent-affirming approach to autism and ADHD assessment. Our intention is to prioritize your wellbeing throughout the process and provide assessment conclusions based in peer-reviewed evidence criteria and a strengths-based, non-pathologizing lens.

Reach out about assessment

Establishing a baseline of support

Why seek a diagnosis

An assessment might be useful for you if you suspect you might be a highly masked adult who is autistic or has ADHD, especially if you consistently experience challenges in areas such as disorganization, a need for structure, difficulty with changes in plans, distraction, hyperfocus, initiating, stopping, or completing tasks and projects, social communication, and regulating your emotional and mental health.

Even if these difficulties don’t externally affect your performance or relationships most of the time, if you feel a heightened level of internal pressure, confusion, or distress, a potential diagnosis could point to resources and support to allow you to receive accommodations and experience more ease.

Neurodivergent and identity-affirming

Especially for marginalized communities, including people of color, women, and LGBTQIA2-S+ individuals, and those from varied socioeconomic backgrounds, neurodivergent-affirming care is not the given it should be. Because traditional diagnostic criteria and providers often focus on a very narrow population that is primarily affluent, white, and cis-gender male, we need assessments that take the full scope of presentations across identities and circumstances into account.

Clinicians like ours at Nido who have multiple intersections of identity that include neurodivergence have both professional and lived experience in diverse presentations of neurotypes and can offer a valuable perspective to help you identify your diagnosis.

Assessment process

  • 1. Free Phone Consultation

    We’ll begin with a free 20-minute phone consultation to assess your need for diagnosis and identify an evaluation fit.

  • 2. Preparation

    If we identify that the evaluation process is the right fit for you, we will discuss presenting concerns, build rapport, identify any accommodations needed for testing, and establish a testing schedule.

  • 3. Assessment Interviews

    During our scheduled meetings, we will go through a compilation of clinical interviews surrounding Language and Communication, Social Relationships and Emotional Responses, and Sensory Use and Interests.

  • 4. Approach

    These interviews are conversational, accommodating, and neurodivergent affirming to keep your needs and emotional wellbeing at the forefront of the process.

  • 5. Timing

    Assessment typically spans over two to six sessions of 50 minutes each, depending on your support needs.

  • 6. Criteria

    The criteria for assessment interviews is based on the 2nd Edition of the Monteiro Interview Guidelines for Diagnosing Autism Spectrum, the 2nd Edition of the Diagnostic Interview for ADHD in Adults, the Barkley Adult ADHD Rating Scale, and differential screening techniques to assess for PTSD, Bipolar, and OCD features.

  • 7. Assessment Report & Follow-Up

    Following the assessment, you will receive a detailed written diagnostic report, and we will meet in a 45-50 minute follow-up session to discuss the findings, answer your questions, and make recommendations for resources.

  • 8. Ongoing Support

    If you feel that you could benefit from continued therapeutic support following your diagnosis, we can discuss neurodivergent affirming individual and group therapy options.

Investment

$275

per assessment session (typically 2-6 sessions)

$150

for the assessment report

$275

for the follow-up session to discuss findings

Schedule your free phone consultation