Autism Evaluations
You Recognized Yourself and Didn’t Say Anything
You’re reading another autistic adult’s account of their own life, and about halfway down it turns into an account of yours.
That’s happened to you more than once by now.
And you close it and go back to what you were doing, because the people who know more about this than you do have already said what it is.
You’ve wondered about it for years, quietly, on your own.
Your Therapist Had Something Real to Go On
Autism and PTSD share most of their surface.
North Mississippi has more trauma in it than many places, so trauma is the explanation that arrives first, and there’s usually real evidence for it.
Plenty of people have both.
The question sitting beneath all of it was never tested.
Dr. Medley Tests the Explanation You Already Have
An evaluation that takes your existing label as settled isn’t an evaluation.
So the testing session runs about three hours, and the trauma question gets examined as carefully as the autism one.
Three hours is a long time to spend on yourself in one sitting, and the length is what makes the finding worth having.
Attention comes up in here, too, because for a lot of people, the two questions travel together.
She Expects You to Check Her Work
You already know some of these instruments by name.
Several of them have been made public, and one of the common pediatric measures can be watched start to finish on YouTube.
Dr. Medley carries secondary instruments for those, because a measure you’ve already encountered and practiced around has quit measuring anything.
And when you message afterward wanting the name of what she gave you, she tells you.
Where You Test Depends on How Old You Are
Autism evaluations here start in toddlerhood and run through adulthood.
Anybody under 18 tests in person in New Albany without exception.
Adults are tested in the office or via video.
Virtual adult autism testing is available in most states.
This Time Somebody Tested It
It ends with an hour of plain language, sitting with the psychologist who ran every piece of it from the intake forward.
The account you recognized yourself in has been written down this time by somebody who tested it first.
And you get to say the thing out loud to the people you’ve been quiet around.
Knowing for sure is what you came in for, and it’s what you leave with.
Nobody Has to Refer You for This One
The first call is complimentary and runs 15 minutes.
Tell us what you’ve been reading, and we’ll tell you whether this is the evaluation to put on the calendar.
Call the office or sign up online.