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<blockquote data-quote="SRL" data-source="post: 87695" data-attributes="member: 701"><p>If my memory serves me correctly, your kiddo has been through at least one assessment already and the outcome has been speech, motor, some sensory, and some misc Autistic traits but nothing clear enough to result in an Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) diagnosis? If that's where you're at, as long as he's getting interventions I don't know what else you can do short of making the rounds visiting specialists until you get a firm YES or NO and then quite honestly I wouldn't trust it if it's as unclear as you say with the experience that I know you have with these kids already. I am thinking that if you want to pursue this an Autism clinic might be a better route than the others because they do truly specialize in ASDs.</p><p></p><p>I know how much you would like a definite answer but I'm guessing if you've already done the assessement route and you already have interventions in place, all you can probably really do right now is treat him like a child who has some spectrumy traits. Get him all the interventions that are reasonable and do a lot at home on the speech and social skills front. Even a year down the road some things may be clearer--ie a 3 year old slightly speech delayed boy who isn't handling WH questions yet should be watched, but if he's 4 or 5 and still hasn't caught on then it's going to be a bigger red flag. My difficult child didn't handle WH questions, but early on it didn't trigger alarm in us because he was superb in so many other academic areas that we expected uneven development. When he hit 4 year old preschool and the delays were obvious to me when compared to his peers is when I started looking for answers. Even the teachers saw no cause for concern because he compensated for his weaknesses well.</p><p></p><p>Often what happens with borderline or atypical Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) kids is that unless there's some very clear red flag such as Hyperlexia, a lot of toy lining up, severe eye contact issues, then the diagnosis on these kids often doesn't become clear until around age 5. And usually then it's not all the various quirky behaviors that send parents looking for answers, it's sometime big like the child can't function in kindergarten, they come totally unglued because of unrecognized/untreated sensory issues, floundering socially because they're social but not socially appropriate, speech differences start to show as genuine age appropriate delays especially in pragmatics, a teacher recognizing what parents didn't, etc. Because Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is a spectrum disorder it's guaranteed that some kids are going to fall in that grey area between the spectrum and neurotypical and it's a lot harder for parents and professionals to determine. Also, younger Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) kids do a lot of shifting when progress is made through early intervention. Personally as long as he keeps making good progress I'd wait until about January of the year he is to start kindergarten and reassess then so you'd have answers in case you need to pursue interventions through school when he does start. You also may want to keep a log if you already haven't started so you can document the problems and progress. That would be helpful down the road in case you do need to go further.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRL, post: 87695, member: 701"] If my memory serves me correctly, your kiddo has been through at least one assessment already and the outcome has been speech, motor, some sensory, and some misc Autistic traits but nothing clear enough to result in an Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) diagnosis? If that's where you're at, as long as he's getting interventions I don't know what else you can do short of making the rounds visiting specialists until you get a firm YES or NO and then quite honestly I wouldn't trust it if it's as unclear as you say with the experience that I know you have with these kids already. I am thinking that if you want to pursue this an Autism clinic might be a better route than the others because they do truly specialize in ASDs. I know how much you would like a definite answer but I'm guessing if you've already done the assessement route and you already have interventions in place, all you can probably really do right now is treat him like a child who has some spectrumy traits. Get him all the interventions that are reasonable and do a lot at home on the speech and social skills front. Even a year down the road some things may be clearer--ie a 3 year old slightly speech delayed boy who isn't handling WH questions yet should be watched, but if he's 4 or 5 and still hasn't caught on then it's going to be a bigger red flag. My difficult child didn't handle WH questions, but early on it didn't trigger alarm in us because he was superb in so many other academic areas that we expected uneven development. When he hit 4 year old preschool and the delays were obvious to me when compared to his peers is when I started looking for answers. Even the teachers saw no cause for concern because he compensated for his weaknesses well. Often what happens with borderline or atypical Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) kids is that unless there's some very clear red flag such as Hyperlexia, a lot of toy lining up, severe eye contact issues, then the diagnosis on these kids often doesn't become clear until around age 5. And usually then it's not all the various quirky behaviors that send parents looking for answers, it's sometime big like the child can't function in kindergarten, they come totally unglued because of unrecognized/untreated sensory issues, floundering socially because they're social but not socially appropriate, speech differences start to show as genuine age appropriate delays especially in pragmatics, a teacher recognizing what parents didn't, etc. Because Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is a spectrum disorder it's guaranteed that some kids are going to fall in that grey area between the spectrum and neurotypical and it's a lot harder for parents and professionals to determine. Also, younger Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) kids do a lot of shifting when progress is made through early intervention. Personally as long as he keeps making good progress I'd wait until about January of the year he is to start kindergarten and reassess then so you'd have answers in case you need to pursue interventions through school when he does start. You also may want to keep a log if you already haven't started so you can document the problems and progress. That would be helpful down the road in case you do need to go further. [/QUOTE]
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