Hi,
My assessment for me was in two parts - one part was for me, and one for my parents to discuss my development as a child.
In my part, I talked to a psychologist about how I felt in regards to social situations, as well as about my hobbies, my eating habits, my education, my family and, in my case, my involvement with MH services and hospitalisation.
I also did a full IQ test, which was in two parts - one part was a "verbal" part and involved things like defining words, simple mental arithmetic, repeating sequences of numbers (both forwards and backwards), and saying which two words were most similar out of a group of words.
The other part was the "performance" part, which involved things such as spotting things that were missing in pictures, arranging pictures to form a social story, using a "key" to write a set of letters into code, and arranging a set of cubes with different triangles on each side to form a set picture on the top.
I don't know if this is a typical assessment or not - I think it depends entirely on the approach of the professionals you speak to. For example, I was diagnosed by the National Autistic Society, whereas my brother was diagnosed as a child by CAMHS - which was more just a collaboration of data from various sources, as well as reports from my parents and observation of him during family therapy. There was also an assessment done regarding me, at which I was not present, and involved only my mother's memory of my development as a child (needless to say, this wasn't exactly a good diagnostic test!).
Sorry for the massively long post, but I hope it helps in some way.
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