Hello all
I have picked up how much expertise and understanding of ASD there is on MN, and am hoping someone can help me understand the assessment process and where we go from here.
At 3 DS is a strong, sometimes solitary character who thrived in private nursery where they were always outside. He asks questions about anything scientific and is a very articulate and apparently mostly happy little boy.
He started pre-school in Sept with a mixed class of much bigger generally older children and promptly became a demon biter. School told us two weeks in, we worked hard on it over the next few days and he understood quickly that we don't hurt others and stopped. At that time school said that they think he ought to be assessed.
From that time his behaviour has been good - no biting and no other issues with 'kind hands' etc. School say he is thriving.
But they are now following assessment up. That's fine - I figure anything that helps school to offer additional support can only be a good thing.
But I am a bit surprised. If behaviour was the issue but now isn't, and we don't see the other potential indicators discussed with us such as eye contact (not a problem) or referring to himself in the third person (he did this a bit at the start of term but grew out of it) what are school seeing that we aren't?
Are we being obtuse? I now just feel I must be missing something obvious and it makes me a bad mum!