Aspergers/Autism/Sensory Integration Chatter #3

[lilima]

Hi all,
I hope you don't mind if I jump in to this thread for a while.

Yeah - I once taught at the school in Wantirna. It is an awesome school, although caters for the highish needs kids.

My DS has just been through the assessment stage (and it is still ongoing) He is in EI now and has come along great guns. His assessment has pretty much ruled out autism, and it seems like he also does not have aspergers. He still has a lot of problems with keeping to task and is a little behind in his gross motor skills. So we have started a few things. Firstly we now use boardmaker with "First" and a compic picture and "then" with a compic picture for what he is doing next. We also have a really great timer from Spectronics (expensive but worth it) that counts down the minutes very visually. He has learnt that he has to stick to task till the timer goes.

He had surgery a few months back, and his motor skills have improved since then. (had is tonsils adenoids out, and his nose coitorised) He had blocked ears before the surgery, so hopefully all of that keeps showing improvements.

So now they are not ruling out ADD or ADHD - so we will have to see how things go. If ADD had been a proper "diagnosed condition" when DH was a child he would have been diagnosed. So we have him now have him on a very natural diet, and that really seems to help.

Also if anyone is interested, I have access to Boardmaker (an awesome progam,) and I am happy to print up some pictures and laminate for anyone who is interested (although I can't go too overboard as I will be doing it during work time !!!) He has turned out very successful, so that really helps me put my mind at ease!