My ds is 4 and currently under assesment for Autism. It has been a truly awful year and I have still not come to terms with the way he is or how to deal with him.
He started school last week and I thought he seemed to be doing OK, going in happy etc, but was pulled aside by his teacher yesterday so say they are wanting to put an IEP in place for his behaviour as hes been pushing alot, throwing and getting very cross over things having meltowns over the mention of something, yesterday it was daddy, why??? No idea!!!, and just generally not coping to well with the whole thing!
I came home in floods of tears not knowing what to do, He has his next assesment in school on the 5th October and am hoping that will be the last one before they make a diognosis! He is also being sent for Genetic testing, do you know how common this is and can you tell me what we should expect as they are not really saying much about it?!
His main troubles are behaviour, he can hit, kick, push etc, will not listen and often appears on another planet, does not 'get it' can be told a million times over about something but when asked he looks blank, struggles to understand questions, was rated average on his understanding using visual aids tho, does not like to give eye contact, poor attention span,delayed speech although its getting better slowly, obessed with PS2 and will not play with anything else, wakes up in the night alot, can be very anti social, being rude etc, struggles to hold a conversation and will change subjects very quickly to talk about p2s or games etc! Shows no interest in wanting to learn, doesnt really ask questions, shows no interest in the world around him,fussy eater, I mean the list goes on..........
I spend my 3 hours every morning worrying and feeling sick, I hate to think that hes not doing well at school and I know hes got to learn the rules and how to behave etc but its so difficult, I mean we are struggling at home with him as nothing works in terms of punishment, but my god I just wish that all this worry would just go away! (
Thanks for reading and I look forward to talking to you all and hopefully getting some good advice and reasurance that things will get better x
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MissBreezy · 24/09/2009 09:54
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