Hi Christy
yes I agree Montessori is wonderful...and the worst part is that he used to go to one. When we moved up here I got him into a small Montessori daycare, it happened to coincide with his worstening behaviour and increased shyness and fear of social situations, at the time Aspergers/autism hadn't even crossed our mind. My husband is a real 'blokey bloke' if you know what I mean, he thought that his apparent 'wimpiness' was due to the 'tutey fruity' school I'de put him at. It also happened to be an hour away from where we lived and the hours didn't coincide well with our youngest daughters sleeps at all....so we moved him to a new centre that opened near us...that went so badly I pulled him out after about 4 weeks and now he's at home with me and I can't get him back into Montessori but fingers crossed the school Sarah is talking about might have a place for him Since my husband and I have read up on Autism/Aspergers he's a lot more understanding of what was/is going on for him so I hope we'll be better able to help him now...how old is your daughter Matilda? have you been aware of her Autism/Aspergers for long? lots of luck with school next year...I'm sure it will go OK you sound like you've found a nice small one so that in its self will surely help, I'll keep my fingers crossed for you anyway!
Loz we are still in the assessment phase of life atm. We have definately found some sensory integration issues with Matilda and have been told that yes she does have issues with it. But through the Mater Hospital there is a developmental behavioural unit that does assessments with paed, physio, auditory, OT and speech... so we are still attending sessions through them.
Well we just had another assessment today by the physio. I'm a bit gutted. Funny isn't it, you expect a diagnosis or a result... but when you get one you are still gutted. There is a bit to swallow and process and the physio said he would write it all up for us to help us understand.
We didn't expect anything through the physio. We expected this one assessment to come back fine. But she drags her right foot, is one side dominant with her hands, and the opposite with her feet. She can't even stand on her right leg and balance which we didn't know.
She got all stirred up and stressed at the end so we left a bit confused about it. One of the Paediatricians was there from the behaviour unit & she said that what is going on has a lot more leaning towards Aspergers than they initially thought with her. This is so frustrating... I know they can't diagnose until they are older, but this week its frustrating for me, last week it was okay.
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but fingers crossed the school Sarah is talking about might have a place for him
Since my husband and I have read up on Autism/Aspergers he's a lot more understanding of what was/is going on for him so I hope we'll be better able to help him now...how old is your daughter Matilda? have you been aware of her Autism/Aspergers for long? lots of luck with school next year...I'm sure it will go OK you sound like you've found a nice small one so that in its self will surely help, I'll keep my fingers crossed for you anyway!
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