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vixen1 · 11/09/2010 15:13

DS's results are in an I'm quite surprised. I'm now really worried that I didn't interpret the questions properly!

His results are as follows:

Cognitive: 50th centile
Social - Emotional: 2nd centile
Adaptive behaviour: 2nd centile

By definition you can't get much worse than what he scored for Social-Emotional and Adaptve Behaviour but I really don't perceive him as being that badly impaired.

The thing that confuses me is that he's actually a REALLY sociable and interactive little boy. He just goes about things in an unusual way and his preferences are very different from his abilities. For example he is perfectly capable of saying "mummy can you help get my car off the table" but instead he will almost always choose to cry as his fist point of communication.

Do you think that could explain his poor scores? ie the fact that they're a measure of his preferences, not his abilities...

I'm sorry, I don't really know what response I'm looking for... just trying to ramble through my thoughts. Feeling quite guilty and confused... worried that my perception of his behaviour (and hence how I answerwed the questionairre) is worse than he actually is...

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vixen1 · 11/09/2010 15:54

Sorry, that title should say "BayeleY scales"...

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blueShark · 11/09/2010 21:46

can you not discuss the questionairre with the professionals, perhaps get a chance to re d it?

I badly misinterpreted some of the questions when was given a sensory profile to fill in by the OT, and the result came that no sensory issues found whereas he obviously has some even though very minor so I went through the questionairre with the OT again but this time gave details, examples...

Dont feel bad, with everyhting going on when we are trying do to the best for our DC sometimes we overlook things...

vixen1 · 11/09/2010 22:17

Thanks, yes I was going to ask the OT if we could go over it together, I'm glad that it's ok to do that - nice to know I'm not the only one!

I did say to her when I gave it in that I found it really hard to answer so hopefully she won't mind if I say I need some clarification. I just feel a bit bad when she's taken the time to score it for me to then say I don't think it's right! But hey ho, I'll obviously do whatever I need for my DS.

I also just wonder how common it is for children to score so low. Is it something that only severely autistic children would score really badly on (which DS is not) or is it quite common to get such a low score even when HFA is present?

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