School reports for upcoming review

[col]

She can be distracted at times by other children, if she feels they are doing the wrong thing. She likes everyone to adhere to the rules. She needs reminder, at times, that it is the adult job to tell the children what to do.

 

DD8 has a rigid understanding of both language and situations. She likes to follow the rules and becomes distressed if other children do not do the same as her. She can become very upset if she gets an answer wrong and has needed a lot of reasurance that it is okay to make mistakes.

 

SOCIAL INTERACTION

 

Difficulty making eye contact. Relates better to adults then peers. Understanding of social situations is very rule based and she has significant difficulties coping when things go wrong. She has difficulty seeing shades of grey- in her understanding things are either wrong or right.

 

Would like to have friends and is keen to take new people or visitors under her wing but she has difficulty knowing how to play and interact successfully. She tends to "mother" other children and tells them what to do. The interaction is usually short as the other child gets fed up with being ordered around.

 

At playtimes DD8 has recently started to play skipping games with some of the other children. She is more able to play with others when there is a structed activity and this works well as long as all the children stick to the rules. If they don't DD8 can get upset and cross with them. At other times she plays on her own. She will talk to herself and often is engaged in imaginary scenarios. At these times she does not seem bothered or even aware that she is on her own.

 

Within the class DD8 is frequently distressed by other children's behaviour as they are not, in her view, strictly conforming to the rules. For example a child might be quietly humming or tapping a pencil. She tends to try and police the other children herself and has needed reminders that it is the adult's job to do this.

 

dd8 has a very high anxiety level. She finds it very hard to make mistakes and initally would cry if she got an anwer wrong or didn't know it. She has made progress towards understanding that it is ok to make mistakes.

 

In summary this is a major area of difficulty for DD8. Her rigid understanding of situations compounded by her high anxiety level and language difficulties mean she has difficulty making and maintaining friendships.

 

In another report says that she is sensitive to touch will say someone has pushed her when all they have done is brush by her.

 

Summary of the same report as the social interaction report

 

dd8 has significant receptive and expressive language difficulties, speech sound production difficulties and specific social communication difficulties that do not appear to be just as a result of her speech and language difficulties

[Zemanski]

take this to your GP and ask for a referral to CAMHS, ask for an AS specific referral

 

Zemanski

[phasmid]

I'd agree with zemanski. Take the report to your GP and ask himto refer you. Lots of what you put 'could' be due to ASD, it could also have 'other' causes. It will need a specialist to follow this up correctly.

 

Good luck.

[darky]

i think you have enough there to request an asessment for asd. you have described bits of my son and my daughter there, ones dx pdd-nos the other Asperger syndrome.

[Mummy21]

I am waiting on dx for AS for my son and that sounded exactly like him......... especially the rules bit....

 

Joanne xxx

[col]

I did want the school honourary paed to assess her, a specialist in autism who works at Guys. She has got an app in June with CDC and i did mention the poss of DD8 of having ASD to the CDC paed at my 2 yr old MDT assessment. And she said she did wonder but with the speech difficulties she wasn't sure. At that time i wanted the school paed to assess her (before i knew how the school felt about getting her assessed) and she was ok with it.

 

I will be sending the CDC paed a copy of the reports. And what DD8 teacher/head wrote in the homelink book