Well, the first assessments are over. Christy, I thought of you when the paed called him "quirky" - I wonder if it was the same one! We won't get full results until the OT and physio assessments have been done, but she did say she's anti-label, and with J's imaginative play and lack of tanties she would be reluctant to use the "Aspergers" word. However she said that school will be a big issue for him and that they will try to push to have him labelled as Aspergers.

Her initial comments were that he had advanced cognitive skills and below average adaptive skills (not by a lot though) and his gross motor skills are at the lower end of normal. Apparently having such a big difference between the level of cognitive skills and the level of adaptive skills is pretty difficult, so there are many challenges in managing that. She thinks we will have trouble finding the right school for him, and maintaining his happiness and emotional wellbeing through the school years, but that he should come out the other side as a well-functioning adult.

She thinks the OT assessment will be really interesting and will tell us a lot more.

I am so glad that DH was there. He feels so much better about things having heard her vocalise many of the things we have noticed, and assure us that he's not as far behind in some areas as we thought (and have been led to believe by kindy). All in all it's been worth doing so far. Hopefully the rest of the assessments will go well.