Aspergers/Autism/Sensory Integration Chatter #3

[mrsmac]

I am finding the holidays challenging too. Part of it is my fault cause I don't do enough stuff with DS to use up his energy, I am so exhausted from 1st term teaching kindergarten that I just want to veg. Had DS and my niece (7 mths younger than him) today. He knows how to push her buttons so he growls near her and she immediately bursts into tears and howls for ages so it was a tough morning, luckily after a lot of rough play on the trampoline he settled down.

In the last week or term the preschool teacher told me that there is just something not right about DS! Awesome thanks for that. I am going to try to get him an assessment through a place at Chatswood, I still don't believe he has autism or aspergers but am leaning towards a language disorder which SHOULD have been picked up by the speechie last year but since she was 12 and painfully gushy and seemingly useless she didn't!

Sorry for the rant, I am feeling very very sad about it at atm, I love him to pieces but some days i feel like I can't cope with one minute more.

[Lulu]

Thanks Tan and Maz, you have both saved me heaps of typing

An update on us , we had a visit with the pead and he agrees we are looking at aspergers with Hamish. So now we go onto an assessment in June. We have a few pages of questions to answer and take with us and have the same for his teacher.

Exactly the same here - my pead is a chick and says we have to hurry in case he can be dx Aspy (which she agrees he seems borderline) before his 6th birthday in June for the funding.
Go 2 psych appt + hearing tests coming.

. AND he's started picking at scab's from his mozzie bites...grrrr their huge now!!!! I have the biggest headache from the constant negetivity from him and telling mini me and tank to go away, leave me alone....and he does that stupid...chick chick BOOM cause it was on t.v (you know that stupid girl who was on tv about the shooting) when he is ****ty with me.

Yes, I am rather sick of peown, peeeown, chick, chick in my face when ds is shirty.
I am lucky in that DS has spent most of the holidays with his dad who isn't working right now and lives in the country/hills. He has spent most of his time bushwalking, fishing, burning off bonfires and generally having a Boys Own adventure all day long.
I asked xp to bring him home because I missed him and realised my mistake about 3 hours after he got back....there just isn't enough to do around here

[Early Kids]

<< I think we all need a big one of those.

Brendan's Paediatrician office rang yesterday and confirmed our appointment, one month time. Brendan will be assessed on the Bayley's or Griffith's test. A Child Psychologist will also sit on in the appointment. The childcare have written out some concerns of theirs so I can take it to the paed too. Brendan has an ophthalmology appointment in June (only 9 months late) and no sign of ENT in the system

Will hopefully hear from the new OT shortly after school goes back (they run on school terms)

[Turkish Delight]

on my holidays in merimbula, i have realised that DS may have Aspergers or some degreeness of Autism or something which i can't pinpoint, but there is something not quite right with him.
I spoke to my psychiatrist today and he thinks the above and it would be best to get him assessed.
For those in Melb, can you advise me of a good child psychiatrist or clinic where i can get DS assessed?

TIA.

[mrsmac]

I must say from some of your posts about your DS I have suspected a degree of Aspergers, they are often VERY bright chidren who are top of their class academically.
We have a lot of success with Aspergers children at school and the other children are great with them and know how to look after them. DD2 has a boy in her grade with it and all the other kids are fantastic with him and really like him.

Maybe try Aspect (not sure if thats just NSW) for info or I am sure one of the other lovely ladies in here will be able to help.

[Lulu]

Chitra Chandaran is brilliant

[Turkish Delight]

Thanks for replying MrsMac and Lulu. I will call Chitra at her Donvale rooms to book an appt for DS.

I feel so sorry for him. i wish there was a way that i could help him function/socialise better at school.

MrsMac- you should have suggested that you thought he might be a bit Aspergers, honestly, with you being a teacher, i would have really appreciated it. I am not one to take offence to anything which is said to me easily, if that is what you had thought.

I was just reading about Aspergers before and the kids taking things that are said to them seriously when they are just sarcastic made me remember an experience with him.
Me - "lets just pray that the weather is great on Saturday"
DS - nods his head.
A few minutes later, i see him mumbling something.
Me- "what are you doing DS?"
DS- "well, you did say lets pray about the weather, so i am"


That's only one of the things that is like him.