when i called her Donvale office i asked about the city office and she said that i would be able to get in there just 2 weeks earlier, so i took the donvale appt as i hate driving into the city.
I will call Melinda Gladman and organise a time. I need to see the psych more than he does for his problems
Oh Lu, how can i ever repay you? I would have searched and searched for a good specialist and probably not have found one either. So thank-you.
Nah, thank my mum who spoke to my uncle who is the Head of a boys school who deals with a few aspys who has a friend who is the bestest Autism bloke in Vic who is also booked to the eyeballs but was happy to talk to mum himself (you know what specialists are like ) who gave mum the numbers of 2 others that he recommended most highly and Chitra was one of them who also happened to be on ABC radio recently chatting about one of her patients who is a world class surfer, so therefore is a massively high achiever and Chitra helped him focus...
88% of kids on the spectrum have sensory issues, and some kids do without being on the spectrum. Sensory issues include tactile, auditory, oral factory, proprioceptive and visual... The way their brain processes certain parts pertaining to these things can cause irregular responses. For example, I know a child who hates the feel of denim... says it feels like knives.... M used to have panic attacks when a siren went by. M also has found out that sucking calms her down, so she does things now to self soothe including sucking her thumb which is a recent development.
Auditory for Devrim - is any loud noise. He can't even stand the tv when its up load or music or just anything loud. We had always thought that it was because he was raised in household with adults who always thought of him and would make no noise when he was asleep etc..
I gotta google sensory issues.
I spoke to DH last night and said that i really need support in this. He will usually not attend any appts i take Devrim too, for anything as he finds that he is useless since he cannot speak english properly. I am okay with that but want him to do research about it in Turkish so he has an understanding of Asperger's too when i speak to him about it. he told me last night that he doesn't believe that Devrim has Asperger's. I think he is in denial, but i'm gonna do whatever it takes, even if it means getting him assessed and it comes back negative. I'm not going to give up. I know he has some issues. I can see it. he can too, but thinks that Devrim is just being difficult for us.
We have parent-teacher interview today. I'm going to ask his teacher if she can see anything "different" about him. He told the teacher that he found this class to easy for him. He was doing homework last night and the whole time he kept muttering 'too easy, too easy".
Christy - i started reading your M - autism thread yesterday. I was nearly in tears about M screaming/crying bits as Devrim was the same. Dh and i would sit whilst he cried after we had tried everything to comfort him. It was so hard. It brought back so many memories. I too had PND because of it.
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) who gave mum the numbers of 2 others that he recommended most highly and Chitra was one of them who also happened to be on ABC radio recently chatting about one of her patients who is a world class surfer, so therefore is a massively high achiever and Chitra helped him focus...
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