Honey-pie

Thank you!

Thanks Justine. Just been speaking to my husband and think I am going to get back in touch with Paed and get her to explain what she actually means! Mmm the statement I hear will be an interesting chapter of our life! LOL

Thanks Tally - I just want to know so I can try and understand K. She is a beautiful little girl who is fabulous but if you put her in her class you notice she is different. She copes with school well in fact she loves it so much I cannot describe to you. She has changed so much over the years - which is great as we are able to break routines she may have and she does not get too upset. The school is fab and they are referring her back to the Partnership Review Group to be considered for a statement. I was afraid of that word 'statement' many years ago but I would welcome any help we could get. T x

After four years or so in the system K has recently been diagnosed with ASD with a possible language disorder which they are looking into. I asked out Paed if she meant that K was autistic and she said not but has ASD. On speaking to a friend (whose child is autistic with other underlying problems) she said that autisum and ASD is the same thing. Am I being pinickity or is she right? BTW I am not ashamed of any diagnosis that K has. I am very very proud of her and she is my beautiful girl who I have been blessed with. Any advice please?

Hi Tally Thanks for your comments. I'm not frightened by this at all, I just need to know if there is something wrong so that I can understand and try and help K. Austim, dyspaxia etc have all been batted about but because she is so young, they tell me, they are loathed to diagnose. I really had to push to want to know why K has these speech problems and was told that it was a speech and language delay. This has really come about again because of the tantrums she has been having of late. I know within the spectrum is it referred to as meltdown. I just dont know what to do to help her when she is like this, she is getting older and bigger and stronger and I know it is wrong to get cross with her. I just want help from someone (god knows who) in how to deal with these. I would willingly attend and parenting group I could who could help me understand and help K when she is like this. She breaks my heart!! She is starting main stream school this September and as we have been discharged from the childrens centre I suppose I feel a bit lost. They wouldnt statement her so I supose I am a bit worried about her going to school. She of course doesnt mind at all, saying that not sure she quite understands what I mean when I talk about big school. Pre-school tell me she is perfectly behaved there and does not have any of these tantrums/meltdowns. Thanks for referring that book to me, I am off out to buy it today. Honey-pie

Yes thanks. I had started that this week because of the tantrums to see when they occured. :-)

God this is complicated. I think my first port of call is back to the children's centre for another assessment, dont you?

Hi guys I am new to this forum as I am deperately seeking some answers from somewhere. I'll briefly start at th beginning. K is 5 in October and before she started pre-school (when she was 3) she couldn't speak, so we went through the channels and basically for the last 18 months or so we have been receiving speech therapy and occupational therapy. She has vaguely been diagnosed with having "speech and language development delay" and that was after pushing for this. We were discharged from the children's centre we were under at Xmas and basically there are significant improvements with K's speech and development BUT there is still something missing. As you all did I expect I have trawled the internet in the hope of some answers to my many questions. I dont think she has ASD but I see so many traits with aspergers. She is highly intelligent with numbers and letters in particular. She loves routine but with an explanation we can break this although tantrums have been coming more intense over the couple of weeks, I have read loads on meltdown recently. What do you guys think? Honey-pie