New research by the charity Ambitious about Autism has found that families navigating the autism assessment and diagnosis process describe it as ‘lonely’, ‘brutal’ and ‘painful’. A third of parents and carers report that their experience of the autism assessment and diagnosis process has been negative, and nearly two thirds describe the support they received after their child’s autism diagnosis as ‘poor’ or ‘awful’.
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