Referral for autism and ADHD assessments
The children’s and young people’s neurodevelopmental pathway offer autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) assessments. We offer autism assessment’s aged from 5 to 18 years across all 3 localities in terms of our Doncaster, North Lincolnshire and Rotherham teams.
For an ADHD assessment, the child must be aged from 6 to 18 years in North Lincolnshire and from 7 to 18 years in Doncaster and Rotherham.
Who can refer?
This has changed in recent years and we will only accept referrals from schools or education settings. If the child or young person is electively home educated the Electively Home Educated team or Education Inclusion Services can refer. If the child or young person is not currently in education, employment or training (NEET) please contact us for additional guidance.
We believe the best approach for referral into the service is for schools or education provisions and parents or carers to work together to complete the referral pack. We no longer accept referrals from doctors. If a paediatrician would like to refer a child, they would need to liaise with the school to make this referral.
What is needed to make a referral?
We require the referral packs to be collated and submitted by the school or educational setting. We do not accept referrals from parents, caregivers or self-referrals.
The referral pack includes a referral form and additional information forms for parent, carer, young person’s and school or education setting to complete.
Both the tree forms and the appropriate useful information forms (autism, ADHD or both forms if the request is for an autism and ADHD assessment) must be submitted for the referral to be accepted. We would also encourage the completion of the young person useful information form if appropriate. If parents or young person require support to complete the pack, then we would encourage school and the young person’s setting to support them with this.
Before submitting the referral, please ensure that you have attached all the supporting evidence (see checklist).
Without this evidence referrals will not be accepted.
Referral form (Tree form) and supporting information
Please ensure you save your documents, and submit all relevant supporting information:
Non-urgent advice: Before you submit:
- Check that you have gained consent from all individuals with parental responsibility to make a referral to the service and this is evidenced on the referral form within the referral pack.
- Ensure that the child or young person is aware of the reason for referral and has consented to the referral (if developmentally appropriate).
- Include the referral form (Tree form).
- Include the appropriate useful information forms (autism spectrum disorder, ADHD and young person’s views).
- Include special educational needs (SEN) support plan or equivalent, which documents at least two cycles of Plan, Do, Review evidence. Please be aware that referrals will not be accepted without at least two cycles of assess, plan, do, review approach evidence.
- Check that you are not submitting more than 10 supporting documents.
- Check that you have included information about the agencies which are involved.
- Check that you have included any reports by involved practitioners, including past or current.
- Check that you have included any completed sensory questionnaires or any other information that would support the referral.
On receipt of the fully completed referral pack, the referral will be reviewed by the team to assess whether further neurodevelopmental assessment is appropriate.
Page last reviewed: July 03, 2026
Next review due: July 03, 2027
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