For parents/carers who are awaiting a speech, language and communication assessment for their child/young person as part of the ASD Pathway, you may find the following information useful.

We understand that the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) at Woodview CDC may have recently recommended you contact us to find out when our assessment will be carried out (as a diagnosis cannot be made without it). Please be assured, whether your child’s referral was accepted on pathway in June 2022 or March 2023, the below still currently applies.

Although we are incredibly busy, we are making progress in reducing the number of children and young people who are waiting for a speech, language and/or communication assessment – including those waiting for a report from us to be submitted as part of their Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Pathway.

You will hopefully understand that we’ve been asked to assess these children in the order they were referred in and accepted on the ASD pathway. The commissioners and the MDT at Woodview believe – and we’d agree – that this seems like the fairest way to work through the waiting list.

Transparently however, this means it could be a while longer before we reach your child/young person.

As at 13 November 2024, please be advised we are booking appointments for referrals made (and therefore accepted) in January 2023. We will continue to update this webpage as we make progress here. There are a handful of children and young people who were referred and accepted onto the pathway in November and December 2022 whose parents/carers we remain unable to make contact with. Please remember that the contact details we have been supplied by the MDT are (in some cases) those which were on the original ASD referral form which may now be out of date. If you feel your child might be one of these, please can you get in touch as below so we can book an assessment asap.