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<blockquote data-quote="Persephone" data-source="post: 432859" data-attributes="member: 12074"><p>I just added my signature so hopefully that will help (hopefully it shows for you guys, it's not showing for me). <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> We do have our oldest (I think I am going to have to think of special names for my boys for this forum lol) on medication. He is on 27mg of Concerta that he takes in the morning before school and 10mg of Ritalin that he takes in the afternoon while he is at school so he can still maintain some level of concentration while at school and at home for homework but not be medicated the entire day. I do not give him the Concerta during the weekends or on summer break unless I know he will need it, like at family get-togethers or something similar.</p><p>My husband and I think it is Aspergers because he does not entirely fit the Autism diagnosis... but then again he doesn't entirely fit Aspegers either. lol He has no social etiquette, he is awkward, and considered "annoying" by other kids, especially their parents, and previously by former teachers. He also talks in questions. He doesn't make statements, but will ask different questions about what he learned or what happened to him in school. He is not obsessed about ordering things in his room, his room looks like a tornado hit it most of the time. He will, however, find a topic and obsessively talk about it. For example, he found out about volcanoes in school and thats all he wanted to talk about and read about for months. For a long time he like to talk about guns, knives, and the police - that phase made us very nervous because we had (and still don't have) no idea where he got any of the information he was talking about. </p><p>He is super smart, at our last parent-teacher conference his test scores showed him at the top level of his grade or above grade level period. If you tell him something once, he will remember it forever and will bring it up years later. It seems that most of his difficulties are in the social arena - interacting with his classmates, adults, people of authority. We have him in group therapy to help him with his social skills and to learn self control. We tried individual therapy which didn't seem to work all that well, I am not sure if this was because he didn't need it or if the therapist didn't want to deal with him... which wouldn't be the first time that happened to him. He was taken out of kindergarten and put back into preschool because his kindergarten teacher couldn't (or wouldn't) work with him. He was put back into kindergarten the last 2 weeks of the school year so he could "graduate". When it came time for him to start the school year in the 1st grade we had switched schools and got him a lot of the help he didn't have before. He has been on an IEP since the 1st grade and with a full time one-on-one aide; he also goes into the Special Education classroom once a day, but this school tries very hard to keep him integrated into his normal classroom. </p><p></p><p>We are at the point where we just tell people he is autistic. While people still do not understand autism, they have even less understanding of what Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD)-not otherwise specified, odd, or aspergers is. Autism is at least something they have heard before and so it seems to make dealing with our oldest a lot easier... well maybe not easier, but they are slightly less likely to expect him to be "normal".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Persephone, post: 432859, member: 12074"] I just added my signature so hopefully that will help (hopefully it shows for you guys, it's not showing for me). :) We do have our oldest (I think I am going to have to think of special names for my boys for this forum lol) on medication. He is on 27mg of Concerta that he takes in the morning before school and 10mg of Ritalin that he takes in the afternoon while he is at school so he can still maintain some level of concentration while at school and at home for homework but not be medicated the entire day. I do not give him the Concerta during the weekends or on summer break unless I know he will need it, like at family get-togethers or something similar. My husband and I think it is Aspergers because he does not entirely fit the Autism diagnosis... but then again he doesn't entirely fit Aspegers either. lol He has no social etiquette, he is awkward, and considered "annoying" by other kids, especially their parents, and previously by former teachers. He also talks in questions. He doesn't make statements, but will ask different questions about what he learned or what happened to him in school. He is not obsessed about ordering things in his room, his room looks like a tornado hit it most of the time. He will, however, find a topic and obsessively talk about it. For example, he found out about volcanoes in school and thats all he wanted to talk about and read about for months. For a long time he like to talk about guns, knives, and the police - that phase made us very nervous because we had (and still don't have) no idea where he got any of the information he was talking about. He is super smart, at our last parent-teacher conference his test scores showed him at the top level of his grade or above grade level period. If you tell him something once, he will remember it forever and will bring it up years later. It seems that most of his difficulties are in the social arena - interacting with his classmates, adults, people of authority. We have him in group therapy to help him with his social skills and to learn self control. We tried individual therapy which didn't seem to work all that well, I am not sure if this was because he didn't need it or if the therapist didn't want to deal with him... which wouldn't be the first time that happened to him. He was taken out of kindergarten and put back into preschool because his kindergarten teacher couldn't (or wouldn't) work with him. He was put back into kindergarten the last 2 weeks of the school year so he could "graduate". When it came time for him to start the school year in the 1st grade we had switched schools and got him a lot of the help he didn't have before. He has been on an IEP since the 1st grade and with a full time one-on-one aide; he also goes into the Special Education classroom once a day, but this school tries very hard to keep him integrated into his normal classroom. We are at the point where we just tell people he is autistic. While people still do not understand autism, they have even less understanding of what Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD)-not otherwise specified, odd, or aspergers is. Autism is at least something they have heard before and so it seems to make dealing with our oldest a lot easier... well maybe not easier, but they are slightly less likely to expect him to be "normal". [/QUOTE]
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