Lanarkshire Community Assessment Service (CAS)
Main information
Type of service: Diagnostic services, Child Development Centres (CDC)
Service URL: http://www.nhslanarkshire.org.uk
A locality based community assessment and diagnostic process, Community Assessment Service (CAS), sees most children. The Paediatric Autism Consultancy Team (PAC) acts as a second/highly specialist opinion facility when necessary.
Assessment procedure: Information is collected from records and professional reports. The nursery or school is visited to discuss with relevant staff and observe the child. A clinical assessment is then carried out which involves family history and child assessment/diagnosis. Initial feedback is given and then a report is sent to the family and all agreed professionals.
Follow up service: None, the family are passed on to local health/education/social service.
Multi-disciplinary assessment: Yes - members of the team include paediatrics and speech and language therapists, with input as required from Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), Educational Psychologist and others as required by individual cases.
Eligibility
Age: From age 2 to 18
Aimed at: Adolescent , Child , Young person
Referral Sources: NHS Only
Covers: Lanarkshire
Registrations & Approaches
Specialisms: Exclusively autism specific
Other specialisms: ASD, Autism, School-age children
Approaches and tools used: ADOS, Australian Scale for Asperger Syndrome, CARS, DISCO
Provided by
NHS Lanarkshire
Lanarkshire NHS Board is responsible for improving the health of the local population of some 563,00...
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