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<blockquote data-quote="buddy" data-source="post: 491318" data-attributes="member: 12886"><p>Well here on the board we dont have the tests in front of us nor are we acting as professionals or anything, I just sounds so strange that he would have all these symptoms, and a diagnosis and not get services. What was his ados classification/score? Eye contact problems are not manditory for autism diagnosis, and it rarely means no eye contact at all. Usually when there needs to be processing or formulating in some way. It sounds like you are saying becasue he does have good contact sometimes he has no issues with that. I have never heard of that. The social verbal communication and that he knows what you directly teach says volumes. He has these focused interests, now tape...hmmm??? It really sounds like you need a neuropsychological evaluation or an evaluation at an autism treatment center where they have neuropsychologists or psychologists who specialize in autism. Not a general childrens psychologist or neurologist. I found our university autism clinic to be among the worst and it was started by our beloved neurologist (she is not there now). But we have three or four centers that work with kids with autism and they have psychiatrists and tdocs and whole treatment programs, social skills classes (even for little ones).... those places do a nice job understanding teh spectrum that autism really is. Since Early Intervention is one of the for sure things we know makes a difference in the outcome for autism, if it was me, yes I would push on. Sometimes certain places are just not a good fit for our kids so we have to swallow hard and move on. It is not an easy thing to do. If you can, try to video tape the times you are concerned about. </p><p></p><p>Just throwing out ideas, of course no matter what, I support you and do know this is scary and hard when you are first trying to figure things out. Please keep coming to vent and discuss what is going on at home. At the very least I will guess there are many here who can give you at home ideas for specific issues. We are our children's first therapists and most important therapists. Did you say he did have an Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation yet? SOrry, I forgot...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="buddy, post: 491318, member: 12886"] Well here on the board we dont have the tests in front of us nor are we acting as professionals or anything, I just sounds so strange that he would have all these symptoms, and a diagnosis and not get services. What was his ados classification/score? Eye contact problems are not manditory for autism diagnosis, and it rarely means no eye contact at all. Usually when there needs to be processing or formulating in some way. It sounds like you are saying becasue he does have good contact sometimes he has no issues with that. I have never heard of that. The social verbal communication and that he knows what you directly teach says volumes. He has these focused interests, now tape...hmmm??? It really sounds like you need a neuropsychological evaluation or an evaluation at an autism treatment center where they have neuropsychologists or psychologists who specialize in autism. Not a general childrens psychologist or neurologist. I found our university autism clinic to be among the worst and it was started by our beloved neurologist (she is not there now). But we have three or four centers that work with kids with autism and they have psychiatrists and tdocs and whole treatment programs, social skills classes (even for little ones).... those places do a nice job understanding teh spectrum that autism really is. Since Early Intervention is one of the for sure things we know makes a difference in the outcome for autism, if it was me, yes I would push on. Sometimes certain places are just not a good fit for our kids so we have to swallow hard and move on. It is not an easy thing to do. If you can, try to video tape the times you are concerned about. Just throwing out ideas, of course no matter what, I support you and do know this is scary and hard when you are first trying to figure things out. Please keep coming to vent and discuss what is going on at home. At the very least I will guess there are many here who can give you at home ideas for specific issues. We are our children's first therapists and most important therapists. Did you say he did have an Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation yet? SOrry, I forgot... [/QUOTE]
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