Firstly, a member of the team will send a range of questionnaires which gather some background information on the presenting difficulties. We may also request you provide us with any reports from previous assessments, such as those completed by Educational Psychologists, Speech and Language Therapists or other doctors. For children and young people who are still in education, we will provide a questionnaire which we ask you to take to your child’s teacher and ask them to complete in order to gather information on their strengths and difficulties in that area. We also ask for your child’s GP to complete a brief medical assessment to rule out any underlying medical issues. We will provide a standardised form to guide your GP in providing the information we require. Upon reviewing all of this information, a time will be arranged to discuss the likely benefits for proceeding with the next stages in the diagnostic assessment process. These entail: