what happens now?

[karin]

hi all as you know ive been trying to have the twins diagnosed as i think they might have autism in november we went to a clinic arranged by cahms they did 3 test on each twin the 1st was the eye test where they had 30 pair of eyes and had to tell what each one was the 2ns test was 3 peices of text which they read to them and asked them to answer questions on this the 3rd piece was 3 pictures which they had to describe what was in each picture this took 45 mins for each twin the specialist meet us last week and said these 3 tests where the core criteria to discovering if they had autism they passed all tests so they dont have it when i suggested that how come they still have osbessions and timekeeping issues plus rigid routines he suggested speech and language theraphy eh! i dont get that he said they may have a congnitive ability as twin 1 likes things described better in pictues as he understands it better and twin 2 has to touch an feel everything including his food as we know a lot of his senses are in his fingers they are still behind at school and will never achieve the grade they are supposed to for a year 6 i think its grade 4 but am not sure would welcome advice on this please where do i go from here all adivce would be greatfully appreciated luv karin

[morgan and alexandra]

Hi Karin,

It's so frustrating isn't it. Just out of interest, which area of CAHMs were these assessments done in as we have just started with them and they have all sorts of Drs for different problems. Our DD had to see a Dr for ADHD last week and she had suggested that DD may have PDD although she will have to be seen by lots of different people before dx will be given. Then today DDs headteacher said that CAHMs are going into school today so Im not really sure what is happening at the moment. Have you been with CAHMs for long?

I really hope you get some help soon <'>