SALT assessment today

[UnChartered]

1st of all, can i have a please for my GP?

he referred DD to SALT on the back of a phone call I made about 6 weeks ago when we were struggling with the waiting list for CAMHS.

I asked him of we could have a referral so that when we finally got to see the Paeds we wouldn't end up on another waiting list, for another 6mths...

He'd written a fabulous covering letter to SALTs, asking for assessment and possibly a report, and for the therapist to call him if she thought it wasn't appropriate..

So DD had her assessment today, the upshot being SALT will write and copy report to Paeds, GP and school, and is arranging social skills group work and language therapy in school for DD as of now!

DD showed she has vocabulary far above her actual age, (+3yrs over in fact) but already shows signs of literal thinking taking over, so needs help with that. the SALT also commented that DDs verbal skills are being used to mask her AS traits, and will inform school this is to be considered!

This may be a cultural black hole, living here, but i'm (so far) impressed with the dx process.

Really pleased that you didn't have a long wait for SALT assessment

Sounds like you got yourself a good SALT too :)

Onwards and upwards for your linguistically talented DD :)

thanks Ben

i wrote that post in a bit of a hurry, it looks a bit braggy now

Gosh unchartered, you Dd sounds just like mine. How old is she mine is 9.5.

She very literal and this can be a problem in school. She is currently in 2 social skills groups at school.

I am glad that the assessment went well and hope things start to move forward for you.

Good luck

Hi Ineed

she's 4.10yrs, and is brilliant.

she must be as that is what she declared when i asked her what she thought on the way home

her literal thinking could get her into trouble, she makes us laugh with it at times (then gets cross as we're laughing at her) 'playing' music gets her every time (how do you 'play' music, it's not a game), and she often forgets words like 'yesterday', instead using 'the day before this one we're having now, that's already gone)

she also corrects herself and gets really impatient if she trips over pronounciation (dat/that)

i saw a thread on here earlier about a DC who counts as stimming, it made me wonder - DD sounds out phonetics almost compulsively, i wonder if this is ehr stimming too?

Bragging is perfectly allowed and indeed should be encouraged in my book

Bragging is definitely fine.

Dd3 sometimes has word finding difficulties too but is brilliant at masking it, to the extent that i hadnt even realised. The SALT showed her a picture of cutlery and she said "you eat with them".

She chats more or less continuosly so i was surprised that she sometimes struggles. Really glad we had the SALT assessment.

Your Dd sounds lovely btw.

one of the pictures she was shown was of a little girl sitting on a chair, there was an adult helping to take her wellington boots off..

the SALT said 'what sort of weather do you think is happening here?'
DD answered 'it's sunny'
SALT said 'why?'
DD - 'because her mother is taking her boots off, she doesn't need them anymore'

DD is lovely, she's funny, chatty, very arty and musical.

but has meltdowns like a demon

Reading from DS's SALT report: The difference between a man and a dog was that "a man doesn't have a tail and fluffy ears"

just had to ask DD that..she said dogs have whiskers and men don't. cats have whiskers too

I've just asked him again.

"a man hasn't got triangle shaped ears or black noses or 4 feet" . No mention of the fact that a man can talk or anything that makes a man a human!

fantastic observation!

I remember doing one of the tests Sir Robert Winston did on one of his 'child of our time's documentaries, about how long/hard your child will wait for a reward.

you had to put a biscuit on a table and tell your child if they waited 10 mins before eating it, they could have another one as well as that one, as a reward.

DD couldn't do it, she couldn't see how she couldn't have the reward biscuit straight away!