Tosh - he just seemed to be more sensory to me than anything else yanno?
I was referring to the scale on the CARS assessment they use for diagnosis (mainly for funding). The scale is 1-60, with 31-35 indicating Mild/Moderate Autism (Aspergers range) and 35 to 60 indicating the range of severe autism.
Absolutely on the crossover of symptoms, although the more I am learing about Aspergers and the more I write on my blog I can NOW look back and say aaaah ok - that's it there too. And its also the reason I went - yeah, no, yeah, no that he had any symptoms at all...
ie, DS was known for sometimes abusing strangers in the street if they gave him a kindly smile. Then he starred in the end of year play at daycare where EVERYONE was looking at him and giggling. HUH? Because the play was scripted and he knew exactly what would happen next. I only just realised...
Rumpled Elf, I'll come back in later - I hear you on the assessment expenses
Oh ok. I take it a Pead did the CARS? Have you had any other assessment? The CARS is a useful diagnostic tool when used in conjunction with detailed interview, observation, case-history and other psychometric assessment. It does not have great 'relaibility' which means you can come up with different scores over time and when used by different examiners. I wouldn't see that score as any significant or accurate reflection of exactly where on the spectrum your DD might fall. Mind you... we don't even know what that means. Yeah, you do get a sense for mild vs severe. For Savant Aspy vs severely affected ASD with intellectual disability. But in between it's just just a spectrum, it's almost 3D!
The CARS is useful for getting a nice clear-cut number which will mean you're eligible for funding which is pretty much essential to get specialised help.
He's had the full assessment done, for risk of repeating myself come into the https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...atter-3-a.html, there are quite a few of us that have gone through/are going through the raft of testing and issues with schooling etc.
And we get quite a few "enquiries" about Aspergers, hence me posting this info as a sticky.
i read a great quote the other day - 'to know Aspergers, is NOT to know Aspergers" lol.
Great quote Lu. Guess it's easier to say this as someone looking in from the outside and not living it day in, day out... but I find Aspergers/Autism fascinating. The kids I work with have taught me so much and just when I think I'm beginning to understand how ASDs work, some little soul comes in and shakes up my assumptions.
RE - thanks for sharing. I'm just in a bit of a bind at the moment doing a couple of diagnoses where the kids are not clear cut. One is a girl, and as you've seen, girls can present in quite an 'atypical' way so there's something definitely 'there' but you can't quite check all the ASD boxes. I'm not sure whether I'm actually doing her and her family a favour by calling it ASD as it's a label that will stay with her for life. But in the short term, will grant her the support she needs. Tricky.
Anyway, sorry to hijack your thread Lulu. I get a bit flappy and excited when this subject comes up and I can't help myself but talk about it lots and forget to listen to other people... remind you of anything??!!
but seriously (and I am about Spotlight, I have to rearrange things) are you a teacher or in early childhood something or other? I remember you told me once.
My Paed/Psych team told me about the same for DS, could be PDD-NOS but in any case the help you can access for the funding helps no matter what.
Since DS started school it changed many things for me, but I believe in the plasticity of the brain and that's keeping me going right now.
Santosha, thats why we had so many issues with Matilda, she is uber sensory, but there are other quirks which was enough to put her on the spectrum, she's not Asperger's but is Autistic.
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