Diagnosis

[mummycanhandleit]

Hi, this is going to be a long one so please work with me

My ds has been to appointment after appointment and we are getting nowhere fast!

He was born with his hand and lower arm missing due to an amniotic band when I was pregnant. (which I really don't think means anything to the rest but I just thought I will give you a full picture)

His speech is delayed and was noticed when he was 2 - he will be 5 in May. He has been seeing a speech therapist from he started nursery in September 09. His behaviour was an absolute nightmare until recently. In nursery he would hit everyone and anyone. His nursery teacher referred his to see a Community Paediatric who said his problems were down to his father and I who are obviously induldging him too much and letting him off with everything due to his arm. She referred him to OT who said his pencil grip was immature but apart from that there was nothing else wrong.

His nursery teacher was not impressed and referred him to the educational psychologist as she said there was definately something underlying here.

The ED Psy came out to see him in Nov 10 when he was in P1, she seen the great difficulty there ie, he was head butting the other children because he thought he was a dinosaur, he would try to run out of the school grounds at break and lunch until finally the school has put someone in the class to one on one him until his statement came through.

He was then referred back to Comm Paed for her to check to see if it is possibly ASD but she said it wasn't that she wanted us and school to fill in form for ADHD. The school's came back that there was ADHD but my husbands and mine came back that there wasn't. The school then requested a referral to OT who spotted quite a few different sensory problems, tactile, propriceptional, vestibalur, visual, oral and auditory.

She gave him a sensory diet to do at home and in school, in the mean time the statutory assessment came back that my son had been turned down and they suggested a behavioural specialist go into the school. His P1 teacher said that she came up last Friday for lunch time and found him a handful but is not only coming in this Friday for break time season.

He went to speech therapist yesterday who is thinking of assessing him now for SLI (which I have just found out is Specific Language Impairment) He can speak just his pronounciation, grammar and understanding is quite delayed. He has to go to an audiologist because his ears are so sensitive that when the school bell rings he covers his ears and cries.

His Ed Psch is coming out again next week to see him but after all these appointment s we are no further on.

Can anyone give me any suggestions of what I should be looking for? Who should I be getting him referred too?

His behavioural is calming down a bit towards the end of the school year but the same happened last year in nursery but when P1 hit he was up the left again. I don't know if this is a change of routine or a new teacher that he thinks he can sweet talk.

I really do need help, please.