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Traditional autism assessments often rely on outdated stereotypes designed around young boys, missing the sophisticated masking strategies developed by adults—particularly women and gender-diverse individuals—who've spent decades learning to appear neurotypical. When you're told you're "too social" to be autistic or that your special interests aren't "obsessive enough," you're encountering the limitations of surface-level evaluation that mistakes adaptation for absence of autism.
Our Clinical Neuropsychologist understands that autism in adults, especially those with late recognition, requires comprehensive assessment that recognises how years of masking can obscure core traits. We use gold-standard tools like the ADOS-2, adapted specifically for late-diagnosed adults, combined with detailed developmental history analysis that traces your authentic neurotype beneath learned coping strategies.
This assessment integrates seamlessly with your broader care team through our biiography platform, ensuring your case manager can coordinate sensory support, communication strategies, or workplace accommodations. Whether you're seeking validation after years of feeling different or need robust documentation for NDIS or educational support, our comprehensive approach honours your lived experience while providing the clinical clarity you deserve.
You begin with comprehensive digital questionnaires designed to capture the full spectrum of autistic experience—developmental history mapping, sensory processing inventory, social communication patterns, and masking evaluation. These detailed questionnaires capture the subtle traits and sophisticated adaptations that traditional screening tools often miss.
Your Clinical Neuropsychologist conducts an in-depth 90-minute diagnostic interview exploring your developmental history, current functioning patterns, and the exhausting strategies you've developed to navigate a neurotypical world. We examine how social communication, sensory processing, and executive functioning affect your daily life, relationships, and work—understanding that autism often presents as chronic overwhelm rather than obvious social deficits.
Your neuropsychologist synthesises all assessment data to distinguish autism from conditions with overlapping presentations—social anxiety, ADHD, trauma responses, or OCD. We understand that autistic presentations often occur alongside other neurodivergent conditions, and that accurate diagnosis requires recognising how masking can camouflage core traits while creating secondary mental health challenges.
When cognitive profiling would enhance understanding of your unique presentation, we conduct comprehensive assessment using WAIS-IV or WISC-V. This creates a detailed map of your cognitive strengths and challenges across verbal comprehension, perceptual reasoning, working memory, and processing speed—identifying the spiky profile often characteristic of autism.
Your neuropsychologist integrates all assessment findings into a detailed report documenting your autistic traits, explaining how they manifest in your daily life, and providing specific recommendations for sensory accommodations, communication strategies, and environmental modifications. This report meets requirements for NDIS applications, educational support, and workplace accommodations.
A comprehensive session where your neuropsychologist explains your assessment results, helps you understand your unique autistic presentation, and provides guidance on implementing recommendations. This session validates your lived experience while empowering you with the knowledge and language to advocate for your needs.
Your case manager coordinates with recommended specialists—whether that's sensory-informed occupational therapists, autism-experienced psychologists for identity integration work, or psychiatrists who understand how medications affect autistic individuals differently. Your biiography platform tracks all team communications, ensuring coordinated care that builds on your assessment insights.