Type of service: Diagnostic services, Child Development Centres (CDC)

Diagnostic assessment service for children and young people up to the age of 18 in York and Selby.

Assessment procedure: Initial assessment by assessing professional, discussion at forum and key worker allocated, further assessment arranged (from range of professionals) and date set for further discussion, further discussion at forum with diagnosis and intervention package.

Follow up service: Yes, community paediatrician follows up children with developmental delay, intervention package with named key worker (will be different for different children e.g. could be clinical psychologist or someone else).

Multi-disciplinary assessment: Yes, professions involved: clinical psychology, psychiatry, paediatrics, speech and language therapy, educational psychology, social services.

Aimed at: Adolescent , Child

Referral Sources: NHS Only

Specialisms: Exclusively autism specific

Other specialisms: , Learning disability, Neurology

Approaches and tools used: ADI-R