how many of you

[MARGOT10]

Hi,iam new here and wanted some advice.

my daughter has been having trouble with social interactions,repetative play and whole host of other concerns since nursery.Her teacher at nursery was also the school senco and we believed my daughter was showing signs of autism.After one appointment i was told that I was understimulating her and left to it.We are now two years on daughter has not moved on socialy has poor social skills,few friends,is below average at school,cannot carry a conversation ect.

To cut a long story short my daughter was reffered to a socail worker at camhs because of bullying.They arried out school observation ask the teachers of her behavior,ask her previous school of her behavior I had moved her because of the bullying.School reports were awful her social interactions were terrible,she could not follow teachers instructions and the woman sent to observe her said that in her opinion my daughter would not be able to work unassisted.The social worker has stated that in his opinion my daughter is on the spectrum and is setting up a ADI or 3Di assessment he stated he would not be doing this if he was not sure that ths is the difficulty.

How many of you have a person other than specialist refer you,are these people normally right,and can I now start addressing my daughters behavior as part of autsm and looking for ways to combat for ex time, social,repetativness.In short is it safe to say that these people are normally right and I now know what the problem is.We cannot get this last assessment until november can I still ask for help in school as she hates it.

[Guest flutter]

my daughters suspected as was picked up by woman doing 'play type therapy' with her, since then life has been a huge rollar coaster

this was at local cahms,

we have now had speach and lang assesment, and see the big doc this week.

i have always known form a very early age that my daughter was different, ( but she has made my life soo wonderful) and have struggled for years, with the have i done this right ect, i a cr*p mother,

but since having professionals saying "oh yes, there is something going on" after being told for years by schools that she an angel, i finlly have confidnence in my skills as mother

this is a fantastic place, and if it werent for the great peeps here, well

tc

C x

[MARGOT10]

My daughter starts play sessions tomorrow with a lady who specalises in autism.should i assume that seeing these play therapies are starting before the final assessment that they are pretty sure what they are dealing with.I have known there was something that I could not put my finger on wrong since she was a baby.I love my daughter very much and I know this is proberbly wrong,but even more since assessments as she finds friendships so hard and cannot understand so much that I sometimes want to wrap myself around her.

[Kazzen161]

If people have a lot of experience of asd children, their opinions are often more accurate than the so-called professionals, who may have little experience of asd.

 

If you use the strategies for asd and they work, it does not really matter (at this stage) if she has asd or not. Have you read Tony Attwood's book on AS?- that will give you info on AS and strategies, and is a good starting point, and will help you to make a note of relevant behaviours in preparation for the assessment.

 

Karen

[elaine1]

I am an nneb and suspected my son had AS, but it took a change od gp to get anyone to listen to me lol