ADOS and team around child questions

[AprilSkies]

Does anyone know what an ADOS assessment involves? Also thinking about taking advantage of the "team around the child" early support offer. Any experiences?

DC 2.7 is non verbal.

Hi

Hi

This might help explain the ADOS a bit for you.

Iirc, they do different combinations of modules based on the child's age and level/capabilities.

My ds1 had the ADOS done last year, when he was 8. It was very relaxed and bascially involved a Clinical Psychologist talking to and playing with him.

My memory is a bit hopeless at the moment, so apologies for not remembering it all, but the bits that stick in my mind are:

1. Them giving him a pile of action figures and toy cars and telling him he could play with them. To which my ds said "I don't play with those types of toys, thank you."

1. Looking through a pile of pictures representing people in different social situations and asking him to tell her what he thought was happening in the pictures and then when he thought the people were thinking and feeling. He couldn't tell her what was going on in the pictures correctly and his interpretation of the characters' feelings etc wasn't even close. He also completely failed to notice several really dangerous situations involving children in some of the pictures eg matches, fires, toddlers falling in swimming pools etc. I remember being pretty shocked at the time at just how badly he did on this exercise. I don't think he managed to get any of it right.

1. Getting out a number of random articles, which the Psych then devised a little game/scenario with eg, pretending a tongue depresser was a surf board and a little spiky ball was a surfer etc. She then asked ds to make something up with the same objects and he flatly refused. She pressed him and he set up a lever system to launch the ball across the table. When she asked him what he had designed, he said "Its a lever for throwing this ball." I think by this time he had decided that the psych wasn't very bright!

1. She had a chat with him to introducethe idea of metaphor. I think she asked him if he had pocket money and if it "burned a hole in his pocket". He looked at her and said "that's a metaphor - its in my book 100 metaphors". At which point she said "Ah - I see there's no point in trying to outwit you, you are far too clever for me."

Needless to say, ds1 came out of it with a dx of Aspergers.

Thanks moosemama, although DS had come a long way in last six months I think he will still struggle to get the all clear. He is pre verbal do I guess the test will be slightly different. Not so worried about it nor, thank you.

A salt and a few others played with him and obseved him whilst we had an interview with a paed. He was 2.6.

Then they sent us away whilst they had a meeting and when we came back they gave him a dx and pretended they had a wonderful offering.

we had the ados when DD was 3.5 (module 1, very play based, as DD has only limited speech). we then had the ADR-I interview. then we went for a cuppa and came back and DD got dx. nothing much as happened since apart from the obligatory pretentious box ticking meetings

Thanks everyone, I know not much help will be on offer unfortunately. We are doing vb and it's been great. Whatever happens with the dx, I hope it helps him I'm the future.