About Us
Veritas emerged from a shared passion to improve the accessibility of autism diagnoses with fast assessments and a personalised service.
We are a professional clinical service which specialises in providing ‘Gold Standard’ autism assessments for both children and adults, usually possible from the age of 24 months.
Liaison and Coordination Team
Our client liaison and coordination team are your direct line of contact, and will make sure you are kept informed of where you are in the assessment process. They will ensure your questions are answered and that your assessment is planned to meet your needs.
The team are very friendly, super organised and highly knowledgeable about the assessment process.
Referral Managers
Our referral managers will be your first point of contact with us. They will liaise with you via your preferred contact means, answering your pre-assessment queries. When you are ready they will take your details and add you to our clinical system so that the assessment process can begin.
If needed, our referral managers can arrange for you to chat with a clinical lead.
Assessment Co-ordinators
Next, one of our assessment co-ordinators will take over your care. They will send out your background questionnaires and support you to complete them. Your co-ordinator will keep you up to date with the progress of your assessment, arrange your appointments and be there to support you through the assessment process.
Meet Some Members of our Coordination and Liaison Team
Lauren
Referrals Manager
Leoni
Assessment Co-ordinator
Our Multi-Disciplinary Clinical Team
Our clinical team members are highly experienced and have been undertaking autism assessments for many years. They have worked in the NHS and in the private sector, and know the difficulties people face when trying to access an assessment.
Our multi-disciplinary team comprises of qualified clinicians from a variety of professional disciplines, including clinical psychologists, counselling psychologists, specialist nurses, occupational therapists, and speech and language therapists. All have up to date professional registration (for example with HCPC or NMC) and DBS clearance.
The clinical team is regularly monitored and supervised to ensure they are practicing to the highest standards.
Diagnostic Experience
The clinical team has undertaken extensive training, with comprehensive experience working with children and adults with neurodevelopmental differences and mental health difficulties. Our experience includes specific training in administering autism diagnostic tools. All our clinicians have a minimum of five years’ experience in undertaking autism assessments, with some having over two decades of experience.
We understand that masking and camouflaging behaviours are common in autistic females, but can also be used by males. We are experienced in assessing for the social nuances in individuals who mask, and we utilise specific tools to identify these behaviours.
Our team can confidently assess individuals who may already have, or require, other diagnoses, such as ADHD, global developmental delay, or learning difficulties. We will discuss all our observations with you and make the appropriate recommendations.
Jo Condon
Our Service Director
Jo has a wealth of autism knowledge, expertise, and experience. With a background in Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS), Jo has extensive and varied clinical knowledge and experience.
Jo has developed, managed and led numerous successful autism services.
In 2003 Jo became the National Autism Lead for Wales, where she spent nearly 10 years implementing their first national autism strategy, leading the development of national training resources and inteegrated autism services.
Over her career, Jo has shared her autism experience with other governments and the European parliament, and has published research in relation to identifying autism.
Online and Clinic Based Assessments
For adults and children over the age of 9, we offer the option of full online assessments or part online, part in-clinic assessment. We will need to see children under 9 in person at one of our clinics.
We have clinics in the following locations:
- Doncaster
- Huntingdon
- London
- Manchester
- Newport
- Nottingham
- Sheffield
- Swansea
- Thirsk
- Tredegar
After you submit an enquiry, our support team will reach out and help to organise an assessment that works for you.
