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Helen Thanx for your help on this, I'll I won't persue this any further. You Know how it goes always looking to find something to help put some normallity into our lives. sara

Helen have already spoken to the DDAT programme people, they don't seem to be able to give much info on asergers even though they say it can help. They say that I can get more info re aspergers when I see the doctor at the first assesment which will cost �475. I'm starting to wonder if they do have any real evidence. The only thing they did come up with is that children with aspergers can't start the programme until 9 not 7 which is for dyslexia / dyspraxia / ADHD. Never mind I think i'll put this one to rest and spend my money on something more useful like a holiday. sara

Hi Montague I told my 7 year old son today as I felt I needed to explain some things to him as we have made a very possitive decision to remove him from main stream school and home educate him. So to approach this topic with him I asked if he felt different from the other children in his class, of which he replied yes and explained that he doesn't want to do the same work as them and that he is always in trouble. I told him that this difference is because he is special and very clever and that the work the other children are doing is not intresting enough for someone who is as smart as he is. I then told him that this is because he has Aspergers of which he responded"I know i've got aspergers i've heared you mention it before but I didn't know what it meant." He was very pleased to be told. I' m sure that this will need to be discussed more as he grows older but it will be something that will be discussed openly from now on. Hope all goes just as well for you sara

I was wondering if anyone has any evidence on how effective the DDAT programme is with aspergers. I've read some of your previous chats from November 2004 and was curious to find out whether or not this actually works for AS. I am quite intrested in persuing this programme for my son, however I seem to be struggling to find much information on DDAT and AS