Daniel never got asked to other's home when in school. He was looked at as a geak to others.
Parent's/kids are heartless these days.
We pulled our older dd out of soccer after 2 seasons. She was havingI would suggest this book for anyone with a possible AS/NLD child. It pinpoints the deficits clearly and is invaluable to getting an IEP that covers the bases. Especially, for a child who appears academically/verbally superior than peers.
My school system will NOT give my son and IEP because he is not a behavior problem and like Carter's Mom our school system relies heavily on tests (which he passes). Many times the tests are given by an adult with few if not one child at a time-and what ASD child does not like adult attention! Just to let you guys know, inferences (a major issue for our kids - very tough) are so used in the second grade level testing.Connor had alot of sensory issues and still does. Not as bad however they come up here and there. He does not engage alot of conversation unless it is about something he needs/wants or a discovery channel show or where's waldo book. He asks to play with friends on the block however, he only plays with kidergarden and 1st graders. He to was only invited to 1 b-day party last year. It seems that he has grown with certain topics of interest however, his play skills never matured past the age of 5. He talks one sided alot and we have noticed that when he does play with his friends he does not listen to them often.
We need the eval for school purposes. We live in a town that focuses on test scores ect. Connor has issues that are moderate enough to be pushed aside and these issues are the ones that will hinder in him the future. The key thing that we have noticed is that once again as his social interactions become more complex he is starting to seem more lost.
We go to the Univ. of Iowa Med center for our 7 yr old on Tuesday. We have him lined up to see ped pysch for 2 hours, OT, Audiation, and Education specialist. Hopefully we can see if they can help and get us on an IEP with school. His anxiety with school starting has increased. Soccer this year is not going well and my husband is even coaching this year. He says the grass confuses him??? We think there is to many rules and to much going on the field. Maybe team sports are not his thing yet. He really enjoys tennis and does well at it. However, that is a one one one sport. 2.5 is really young to be dx'd with asperger's. The delays are more subtle
I guess im backwards we started off with a Dx of AS ,with our local pede but got a PDD dx From a Dev pede ,a Two years later.
I say he has Autism,and leave it at that
Linda
My son sounds so much like parts of all the children described. I just found out that without my knowledge my Autistic Disorder-Mild, Anxiety state son now has a label of Aspergers. I was told by my Neutrodevelopmental Physchol. Pediatric Dr. that she wanted to test him for it in Dec. and now it is being put on his chart for the psychologists that deal with giving us a TSS helper for him.I have heard that it is not uncommon for kid to be dx'd with Asperger's when they are older. Because Aspie's speak on time, and tend to have above average intelligence, the issues sometimes don't come to light until the kids are in school full time.
A friend of mine just got an Asperger's dx a few weeks ago and her son is 6 1/2. She had him tested when he was younger but they told her that he seemed normal other than he was very gifted and some of the quirks she was observing were a function of him being so highly intelligent. However, it all fell apart this year at the end of kindergarten (behavior issues, sensory defensiveness, social issues) so they did the evaluation privately this summer and are now getting an IEP in place for fall.
I think there are some great books and social stories out there to talk to your child about Asperger's. I've seen posts on this in the past. I'm guessing someone else that has went through it will post the links.
When we were going through this with my older son, I was told kids with AS typically weren't diagnosed until around 5-7 years of age. My oldest son was not evaluated until the end of Kindergarten. My nephew's best friend wasn't diagnosed until he was in 1st grade.
Two separate friends of mine have sons who are each turning 9 in a month. Both just got diagnoses of Asperger's for their children within the last month.
I don't know how much I would tell him at this age - for one good reason - because you don't know if he has it yet. The fact that he is socializing is a positive sign, though! Maybe you could just say that you are going for a screening to see how well he does certain things? Which isn't a lie - that is exactly what they are doing!
Well as we further researched our 2 yr olds issues we noticed that all the issues my older son had when he was 2-5 were signs of autism. he is much better however still extremly sensitive! He also is repetitive with language. Plays with only the 5 yr olds on the block and has not made a huge connection with just one kid that he can call his Best Friend! We have him scheduled for a review with a dr. this friday to see if Aspergers is what he might have!
Has anyone had to deal with this at such an older age and what did you tell him so he would not think he was different? We want to make sure that he will be ok when we take him for the eval.
My son has issues talking to people and starting out conversations with hi, instead he starts it out with my fish died or something else that happened to him that day. He also gets so anxious that we have to pull him aside and talk with him. His 1st grade teacher said to us about 2 months after class started that something was just not right. I have always been a full time working mom until this year and now that I have spent the summer with him the truth is coming out.
We use to have to cut out the tags in his shirts until he was 5, he use to line cars up all the time, if a child walked next to him he cried because he thought they hit him. (speech and OT helped out in this department) If he gets injured we hear about it for days. We have noticed that as his social situations get more complex he gets more stressed. We are mainly doing this because we need to make sure this is what it is and not some other underlying issue.
I to thought that all Aspergers kids were brainiacs however, from what I have read and have been told that is not the case. Most have a favorite subject they excell in. My sons is science. He looks at Waldo books and plays legos all the time if we do not have him working on something else.
My son has traits - and he had lots of the red flag behaviors as toddler. Currently, he had a successful run in first grade and had a few pals and no social problems according to the teacher, and even got notes sent home a few times for goofing around out of turn with other kids, so it appears that socially he's doing ok at the moment. He enjoys other people and enjoys school and summer camp. His language is fine, though he can be literal minded, though he is only seven, so I don't expect a Steven Wright level of irony from him. My opinion on this is that if he's not being impacted by his quirks, don't bother with the evaluation.
If you have reason to believe that he's being impacted by his traits (i.e. language problems getting in the way of him learning, sensory problems getting in the way of his learning, social problems making him dread school, etc.) then I might pursue and IEP (and neccessarily an evaluation) - but if he's doing fine and happy, why bother? Lots of kids have quirks, but quirks do not become a disorder until there is a qualitative 'impairment' - in the absence of a true impairment, quirks are just quirks, and we need people with quirks to make life interesting. There's appears to be a genetic component to most cases of autism, and it's apparently not uncommon to find traits of the 'Broader Autistic Phenotype' in relatives of autistic people - these are autistic like traits that do not impact the person in a negative way so do not rise to the level of a disorder. It's definitely true in my family, so I just consider my son (and myself and his mother for that matter) to be part of the BAP, and try not to worry about it.
Fred, we have a 13 year old BAP. Major red flags as a toddler. Sensory issues continued throughout 2nd grade. Social issues were so apparent that I kept him back in kindergarden.
He is now 13, plays baseball and football and has several good friends. He is a first to second honors student with highest grades in math and social studies.
He has a great personality and is extremely funny. He is a wonderful guy who provides my younger ones with hours of crazy entertainment.
He has no problems in his daily functioning. Therefore, I have not had any reason to have him evaluated.
We first noticed with Daniel something was different at 4 months. He is 11 and still no asd dx but I believe the dr.'s are both wrong in our case. He has been in st/si therapy since age 1 cause of loss of speech then. He was sensory defensive then also. To touchy now. He hated normal play in toddler hood. He had ot but not anymore scores to high now. Low muscle tone in upper body. Me also!
We wanted early help so he could do better in home/school/life.
Daniel's eeg at 5 showed a intertmintent slowing in his left side posterial area.
My understand is asd people tend to think literally. I bet both of us parent's may have a form of asd and even maybe paternal gm also.