CupOT

Our DD is transferring to secondary school in Sept. and I'm very impressed with the chosen school. After only finding out only last Monday she had got a place (The same school as her brother), I sneaked a quick word with the SENCo who was sitting idle at my sons Yr 8 consultation evening, explained situation about DD i.e. no diagnosis yet, but needs routine, behavioural problems, familiarity, literal thinking etc. etc. She was great she said copy all the past assessment reports on my DD with a covering letter of our concerns and she would follow up from there, her school should send this info but often 'goes missing' WELL, gave all this to my son this morning to hand in - got home from work and answer phone message flashing - SENCo from the secondary school saying she felt the earlier we work out a programme for transition the better and can we phone to make an appointment! Hows that for speed! Hoping it continues in a positive manner!

Thanks for the advice all will do!.

Thanks for the advice all will do!.

There is a good book which is very simple called 'Let me tell you about aspergers' I bought it off internet for about �3.99 recently. It's written for friends and family aimed at ages 7 - 11yrs, you might find it useful. Our daughter hasn't got a full diagnosis yet but found it helpful as we picked out the bits that related to her, this helped her understand her differences whilst realizing she wasn't on her own. Her 6yr old sister read it and she related areas to her sister as did her 12yr old brother who thought she just made it up all these years! CupOT

Thanks for the welcomes! We always knewtoo. My only fear with diagnosis is that the EPsych had said we have done a fantastic job in giving our DD strategies to cope and when it came to assessing her it wasn't until about the 10th / 11th question brfore she thought something didn't feel right and on asking her if these were her answers my DD replied 'It's how mummy would tell me to do it because.......'. and because of this the Paediatrician is going to have to 'peel back the layers' so to speak. EPsy said she would put a covering letter in with her report to explain this. So now just hoping we haven't 'done to much' so we get her the help she needs.

hi all I found this site several weeks ago and have read loads on it and found it helpful so thought might as well register. I am 40yrs old , work in sessional nursery care as a deputy supervisor / SENCo am married to Stephen and have 3 children.A 13yr old boy and 2 girls 11yrs, and 6yrs. We have been struggling with the oldest girl for a number of years, from the age of three really with major tantrums and meltdowns. She didn't settle well at her first school and after a yr we moved her to another who after 2 weeks recognized there was more to this than just tantrums. (She was nearly 6yrs) After lots of 'observation' 'art therepy' etc she saw an ed psych who reffered her for assessment. Now she was 7 1/2yrs. She was assessed and seen to have 'immature social skills' and not fitting the ASD criteria, however we and the school where advised to use ASD tactics to help develop her social skills, literalness, behaviour. The school were very supportive and together have bought her on in leaps and bounds. However things still seemed amiss to us and with transfer to secondary school due this september raised our concerns at the parent evening. The school had also highlighted her as a possible child neeeding support to secondary school and with our permission refferred her back to the Ed Psych. She was seen just before Christmas and we were told that she felt she has Aspergers. So we are now waiting for a diagnosis from the community paediatrician who she is supposed to be seeing her in June. She has been given her first choice of school and is over the moon but very anxious so I'm expecting quite a few fall outs. Well thats me, so another HELLO!!!