keriann71

my son thomas got diagnosed at the age of 10 years old december 2005 just before thomas's 11th birthday . thomas is middle to severe autisitc with speech and laungage delay and complex needs and poor cognitive skills , thomas is very immature for his age as well thomas is like a 6 to 7 year old. thomas is at a special needs highschool now for children with moderate to severe special needs there is just 112 children in the school , thomas is having trouble settling. thomas has been in special needs since june 2001 , when thomas got his 1st statement of special needs when he was just 6 years old i think was very late for a 1st statement of special needs . thomas has his statement of special needs reviewed every year. when thomas was 6 years old he was almost non-verbal thomas hardly spoke. thomas showed signs that there was something wrong back when he was only a baby.. and it took almost 11 years for a diagnosis since his birth back in feb 1995.. thomas has had a hard life and he still continues to struddle we get no help or support even since thomas's diagnosis. we neen help with his behaviour we keep asking and we get no answers. see you from kerry..

protein mutations link to autism (bbc news) here is the link to the news article .. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6221064.stm dated 21st june 2007 .. see you from kerry..

i phoned up yesterday to see if they had received our 2nd claim for a family fund grant , the lady said they received it on the 11th june and it can take upto 10 weeks to hear .. she said it could be sooner than 10 weeks.. when you apply again for the 2nd time or 3rd time ,, do you still get family fund or is it like the 1st time you apply .. see you from kerry..

hello my first post here .. we have just sent off our 2nd application for the family fund .. we applied and we were succesfull last year i got driving lessons and we got spending money towards our holiday.. this time ive asked for a holiday , spending money for holiday & clothes and shoe money for thomas.. thomas has autism and other complex needs , poor cognitive skills .. and speech and laungage delay thomas is 12 years old.. thomas was diagnosed in december 2005 with autism.. thomas is middle to severe autistic .. we had a very late diagnosis.. see you from kerry..