ASD

[mummycanhandleit]

Could anyone help with any sort of guidelines or a checklist for ASD?
Any I see online are so far over my head it is unreal.
I feel that I am going round and round in circles.
What would major differences be between a child with sensory processing disorder and ASD? or is it a fine line?
Thanks

It's a massive sprectrum. No two children are different.
What are your DCs quirks?

Depending on age you could look at MCHAT. Or for older children there is an online questionnaire which I am sure someone will be along and post the link on. You can also look at the diagnostic criteria eg DSV IV or the drat DSV V. There is another diagnostic criteria but again can't remember the name.

Some USA websites have more info eg MIND institute

one of the most important tests they do in DX is ADOS and check for the triads of impairment HTH

I don't know what DSc is???lol so new to all this
My son has been seeing SALT from he was 2 and a half. He can speak but is quite delayed. He is nearly 5 (in May) and only family and teacher understands him most of the time.
He has seen OT and she has diagnosed sensory problems ie auditory, oral, tectile, vestibular and proprioceptive.
He has no sense of danger to the extent the school is paying someone to one on one him until his statement is processed (which I am in the middle of appealing)
He gets obsessed with door wedges in school, or dinosaurs or books or just anything that day may bring.
He can not bear the school bell and would become extremely distressed. He is going to see an audiologist because he failed the routine school hearing test.
He can't stand to be close to people and if a child rubs against him or bumps into him in the school line he goes crazy and hits the.
He acts out dinosaur/rhino and actually thinks he is one of the characters. He has put a girls tooth threw her lip playing rhino. He has head butted the fire escape glass door thinking he was a dinosaur.
He runs off on me and in school- onto the road
He spins and spins but never gets dizzy.
Children in the class seem to be quite good with him but when I have went out to school he is either spinning on his own or trying to play with kids but he doesn't understand the game. He would run away thinking everyone is chasing him, when thats not the game??? does that make sense?
I don't know what else???? I can't think??

hi mummy, my DD is a lot younger than your DS as shes 19 months but she goes to child development centre as she has sensory problems - all of the ones you mentioned!! Shes also obsessed with door wedges - how strange! We have several in our house that she frequently trys to yank out and licks them! She hates noises, people touching her head and face, other children getting to close, waiting in buys places like doctors surgery etc. Just recently she has started walking in circles. Have you read the book The Out Of Sync Child, its available on Amazon I found it very helpful. DD is slightly speech delayed also and has learned a bit of makaton which eases her frustration. She also does not sleep maybe 4 hours a night and is very hyperactive

Most kids with ASD also have SPD. He def sounds like he has SPD. But he could also have ASD.

Are you taking him to a paed to be assessed?

We took him to Comm Paed in Sept but she didn't even notice the SPD never mind anything else. She said we over induldged him because he was born with his lower left arm and hand missing.
I am going to take him to his GP to see if we can see someone else for a second opinion.

Was your community paed a developmental specialist? Maybe ask your GP for a referral to a developmental paed. Let him know about spd DX and suggest you are worried about ASD. Good luck.

Thanks, it isn't me pushing for this. It never crossed my mind truth be told until he started school in September. I just thought he was a hyper wee boy that just had no sense of danger but it was the school that noticed all this and they are quite sure there is some part of the spectrum there????
I don't know but they are starting to convince me that something isn't right. When I look at him with kids in his class he is so different with the way he plays, acts even the communication. But they all baby him which is lucky for him because I don't think they would be so forgiving of him if he was big.

Sounds like the school is being helpful. My DS's class all look out for him and, because they have known him since reception they are all still lovely and tolerant with him and he's 11 now. It took an awareness talk from an autism advisory teacher in y1 to get them to realise he wasn't just bring naughty, tho'.