Hi my names Kerry and at the moment we are struggling to get a diagnosis for my 9 year old son.
We have just got back from our first appointment with a child psychologist, previous to this we have had a few in depth appointments with the nurse practitioner at cahms who took history and detailed information about M's issues.
M's main issues are at school, problems with communicating and anger issues. It is assumed he is somewhere on the autistic spectrum, sometimes he will refuse to talk, today he got angry that we were talking about him and told us to shut up before leaving the room. When he will communicate it is on his terms only. He has been excluded from school who seem to be really struggling with him, a couple of weeks ago it took the school 45 minutes to find him after he had been told off at something to do with football, he was excluded for this.
We didn't really gain any knowledge from the psychologist that we didn't have before, he said some signs indicate autism while others don't. So we are waiting for other agencies to become involved; best is one and the other I think was lasks but I can't find anything on google about that so maybe I heard wrong.
Sorry for the jumble of information, it just feels like we're not getting anywhere right now.
Thanks for reading.
Kerry.
