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Difficulties with teen. Tired of therapy/parenting buzz words.
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 657434" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Since she isn't in school, is she receiving any services for her autistic spectrum disorder? The problems Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) kids and adults face often has nothing to do with academics, but they ARE wired differently and organization, moving on alone, making any good friends at all, and social and good conversational skills tend to be very limited. If they aren't, it likely is a misdiagnosis.</p><p></p><p>How is she getting any help? Are you planning for her adulthood? You can't expect a neurological atypically wired child or adult to function in our world with some supports and help. It rarely happens that they can do it without services and downright teaching of the social skills and communication skills, even if they have great vocabularies. They ARE different and what works for a neurologically typical kid won't work for one on the spectrum and may cause frustration and shutting down.</p><p></p><p>I'm not a big fan of homeschool differently wired children without trying public school until it becomes unbearable first because the free interventions come from the school and she will need interventions. My son's interventions started before age 3 and he's really doing well for what was expected of him. He is 21, living alone, working part-time, and mostly doing things on his own. He does not have much of a temper and is extremely pleasant and has made friends. Still...he is different. I feel he is different in a good way, but he is no way like most twenty one year old young man. His interests are different and he is very young in the things he likes to do, although he has a normal IQ.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 657434, member: 1550"] Since she isn't in school, is she receiving any services for her autistic spectrum disorder? The problems Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) kids and adults face often has nothing to do with academics, but they ARE wired differently and organization, moving on alone, making any good friends at all, and social and good conversational skills tend to be very limited. If they aren't, it likely is a misdiagnosis. How is she getting any help? Are you planning for her adulthood? You can't expect a neurological atypically wired child or adult to function in our world with some supports and help. It rarely happens that they can do it without services and downright teaching of the social skills and communication skills, even if they have great vocabularies. They ARE different and what works for a neurologically typical kid won't work for one on the spectrum and may cause frustration and shutting down. I'm not a big fan of homeschool differently wired children without trying public school until it becomes unbearable first because the free interventions come from the school and she will need interventions. My son's interventions started before age 3 and he's really doing well for what was expected of him. He is 21, living alone, working part-time, and mostly doing things on his own. He does not have much of a temper and is extremely pleasant and has made friends. Still...he is different. I feel he is different in a good way, but he is no way like most twenty one year old young man. His interests are different and he is very young in the things he likes to do, although he has a normal IQ. [/QUOTE]
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