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<blockquote data-quote="SRL" data-source="post: 39448" data-attributes="member: 701"><p>I'm sorry, Totoro. Even though you knew it was likely coming it still doesn't make it any easier when the official word is in. </p><p></p><p>She is still young for a firm diagnosis but interventions plus close observations from home and school will help when that time comes and in the mean time it sounds like you have enough to get interventions. As you already know I had a child in whom Autism would have been ruled out at age 2-3 due to being too high funtioning socially and verbally but in the end that was exactly the direction difficult child leaned in. At this age the areas I would recommend observing to help rule out Autism would be her play behaviors and speech patterns. Watch for lining up toys, etc in straight lines or formations, favoring atypical items instead of toys for play, repeating back your questions instead of answering them, repeating chunks of videos or tv programs from memory, speech that doesn't keep up with her peers, and/or developing adult sounding speech. </p><p></p><p>It's not easy to make happen but I do know of a few parents who have managed to get the school district to provide 1:1 aides to attend a private preschool with the child when there is no appropriate setting for a higher funtioning child. Doctor recommendation there of course would help. </p><p></p><p>It's been awhile since we've had a "Would we do this again had we known?" conversation here at this site. Parents are always all over the map on this one and there is no right answer. Personally when I realized the genetic connection to Autism I cancelled ;-) Baby #4 and had my going out of baby business garage sale. That message horrifies some people but I was 38 and already had 3 kids, one who was a major handful. on the other hand there's just no telling what is going to happen in the next generation. I have one parent who is bipolar and the other has traits of schizophrenia yet my other living sibling and myself have no mental health issues, despite having grown up in a highly dysfunctional home environment. My deceased sibling had difficult child-ness but that was due to brain damage at birth and not due to a mental health disorder. The chances of 3 children escaping mental health problems and two being highly resiliant to environmental issues aren't real high but that's my story and I'm sticking with it. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRL, post: 39448, member: 701"] I'm sorry, Totoro. Even though you knew it was likely coming it still doesn't make it any easier when the official word is in. She is still young for a firm diagnosis but interventions plus close observations from home and school will help when that time comes and in the mean time it sounds like you have enough to get interventions. As you already know I had a child in whom Autism would have been ruled out at age 2-3 due to being too high funtioning socially and verbally but in the end that was exactly the direction difficult child leaned in. At this age the areas I would recommend observing to help rule out Autism would be her play behaviors and speech patterns. Watch for lining up toys, etc in straight lines or formations, favoring atypical items instead of toys for play, repeating back your questions instead of answering them, repeating chunks of videos or tv programs from memory, speech that doesn't keep up with her peers, and/or developing adult sounding speech. It's not easy to make happen but I do know of a few parents who have managed to get the school district to provide 1:1 aides to attend a private preschool with the child when there is no appropriate setting for a higher funtioning child. Doctor recommendation there of course would help. It's been awhile since we've had a "Would we do this again had we known?" conversation here at this site. Parents are always all over the map on this one and there is no right answer. Personally when I realized the genetic connection to Autism I cancelled ;-) Baby #4 and had my going out of baby business garage sale. That message horrifies some people but I was 38 and already had 3 kids, one who was a major handful. on the other hand there's just no telling what is going to happen in the next generation. I have one parent who is bipolar and the other has traits of schizophrenia yet my other living sibling and myself have no mental health issues, despite having grown up in a highly dysfunctional home environment. My deceased sibling had difficult child-ness but that was due to brain damage at birth and not due to a mental health disorder. The chances of 3 children escaping mental health problems and two being highly resiliant to environmental issues aren't real high but that's my story and I'm sticking with it. :-) [/QUOTE]
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