The publisher
Pavilion is a leading provider of professional development products and services for public, private and voluntary workers in the health, social care, education, and community safety sectors. Pavilion publishing have been involved with promotion of the Moss-PAS (formerly PAS-ADD) Assessments from the beginning, and have marketed the printed versions for most of that time
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The author
Steve Moss PhD has worked for 40 years in disability research, initially in the field of visual impairment, and subsequently in the area of intellectual disability. For more that 25 years has has had an international reputation for his work in the field of mental health. His work on development of the PAS-ADD system (Psychiatric Assessment Schedules for Adults with Developmental Disabilities) is particularly well known. These assessments, now known as Moss-PAS, are now used in many countries throughout the world.

The development team

A great many people have been involved in the PAS-ADD system. The following are some of the principle ones


Professor Sir David Goldberg. Professor Emeritus, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London

Dr. Robin Friedlander, Child Psychiatrist and past Chair of the Developmental Disabilities Section of the Canadian Psychiatric Association

Dr. Pauline Lee, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

Dr. Pradip Patel, Consultant Psychiatrist

Dr. Neill Simpson, Consultant Psychiatrist, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Glasgow


Finally, we owe our gratitude to the thousands of PAS-ADD users who have helped refine these assessments to the level they have now reached.