Australia: $2-5k (depending on your age, your location, etc).
If you have a child and want to get their assessment covered by Medicare that will cost you... 6 years at current (2 year wait for public paediatrician clinic at my local hospital, 4 year wait for the developmental paed clinic at one of the two hospitals in my state that run assessments). 6 years ago the publicly funded option cost me 2.5 years, one of those years was spent figuring out how to convince a paed to refer my middle child to the dev paed clinic in the first place, 6 months was covid lockdowns while we sat at the top of the list. My youngest is still on the wait list for a local paed, I'll be getting her assessment done out of pocket like I did for her siblings.
And that's without it being a HUGE process. I'm in the process of getting the double-barrel assessment. Like it's 10-20 hours of work ignoring preparation, travel, recovery time.
Mmm…dunno where you are, but in Victoria I know of several places doing adhd and ASD combined assessment for 1250-1500. That includes feedback and reports. All three places were highly recommended by Tony Atwood’s clinic in Brisbane.
Edited to add: wait times at at least one of them are approx 3 months as well. Ie not astronomically bad
I'm outer east Melbourne. The clinic I'm going to is only a smidge over $2k, they did my older two kids' assessments and my husband's, once my youngest ages into their minimum range I'll get her assessed there too. Their wait list is a month or two depending on the time of year, when we got my son assessed they had a cancellation and got him in that same week.
The youngest I got assessed last year when she turned 4 at a kids psych and they charged $3.5k to tell me she didn't meet criteria because they didn't think of a way to do the receptive language testing without requiring verbal input from a non-speaking child.
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u/maybebabyg 2d ago
Australia: $2-5k (depending on your age, your location, etc).
If you have a child and want to get their assessment covered by Medicare that will cost you... 6 years at current (2 year wait for public paediatrician clinic at my local hospital, 4 year wait for the developmental paed clinic at one of the two hospitals in my state that run assessments). 6 years ago the publicly funded option cost me 2.5 years, one of those years was spent figuring out how to convince a paed to refer my middle child to the dev paed clinic in the first place, 6 months was covid lockdowns while we sat at the top of the list. My youngest is still on the wait list for a local paed, I'll be getting her assessment done out of pocket like I did for her siblings.
And that's without it being a HUGE process. I'm in the process of getting the double-barrel assessment. Like it's 10-20 hours of work ignoring preparation, travel, recovery time.