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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 551123" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>It isn't your fault. When I was a kid, back in the dinosaur days, we didn't go to preschool and we all socialized just fine, unless we had special needs problems and they were ignored at the time. This has nothing to do with you...it seems you have a "different wired" child who is bright, but has issues. Senosry issues rarely stand alone, so I recommend you take him for a total evaluation, not just to an Occupational Therapist (OT). They are limited to only Occupational Therapist (OT) stuff. I'd take him to a neuropsychologist for a complete evaluation. Talking a lot and acting socially interested is not the same as being socially appropriate. Does he know how to play, give and take, with other kids? Does he take turns and use his imagination? Or does he sort of sit beside kids to play or just run around and hope they follow him? Or does he get in their face and stand too close? It's amazing how easily social skills come to "typically wired" children. My son is nineteen now and on the high end of the autism spectrum. He always spoke a lot, once he learned to talk, but he really didn't know how to interact in ways that the other kids liked. He is learning more now and has since he has been in high school, but he did have many interventions. He also had many sensory issues that are much better now.</p><p></p><p>Whatever is wrong, it sounds as if good interventions will help him a lot and that he is bright (which will help). I would still do a total evaulation. Are they any issues on either side of his genetic family tree? </p><p></p><p>My motto is "better safe than sorry." Don't shy away from a neuropsychologist.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 551123, member: 1550"] It isn't your fault. When I was a kid, back in the dinosaur days, we didn't go to preschool and we all socialized just fine, unless we had special needs problems and they were ignored at the time. This has nothing to do with you...it seems you have a "different wired" child who is bright, but has issues. Senosry issues rarely stand alone, so I recommend you take him for a total evaluation, not just to an Occupational Therapist (OT). They are limited to only Occupational Therapist (OT) stuff. I'd take him to a neuropsychologist for a complete evaluation. Talking a lot and acting socially interested is not the same as being socially appropriate. Does he know how to play, give and take, with other kids? Does he take turns and use his imagination? Or does he sort of sit beside kids to play or just run around and hope they follow him? Or does he get in their face and stand too close? It's amazing how easily social skills come to "typically wired" children. My son is nineteen now and on the high end of the autism spectrum. He always spoke a lot, once he learned to talk, but he really didn't know how to interact in ways that the other kids liked. He is learning more now and has since he has been in high school, but he did have many interventions. He also had many sensory issues that are much better now. Whatever is wrong, it sounds as if good interventions will help him a lot and that he is bright (which will help). I would still do a total evaulation. Are they any issues on either side of his genetic family tree? My motto is "better safe than sorry." Don't shy away from a neuropsychologist. [/QUOTE]
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