Assessment for possible ASD

[Rhubar]

Hi, I'm new here! My DS (4) is currently being assessed by a multi disciplinary team. I won't go into all the reasons why we started this process because I'll be here all day!!

After being fobbed off with lots of "all boys do that" and "there's a wide range of normal" they're finally starting to realise that there are some issues. The psychologist at the last appointment went through some of the problems that he has. She said he has difficulty understanding pragmatic language, that he's emotionally younger than his age and immature, he's slow at processing eg conversations, games etc and that he's easily frustrated.

She also did a cognitive assessment with him which was very spiky although nothing was below average. (he was at the very top for visual!) She said this had no significance but I was fairly sure that this is very common with children with ASD.

He also has lots of sensory difficulties.

Basically, I wanted to know if all this issues are consistent with ASD and what I should say to her at the next appointment. I'm feeling very out of my depth and not sure what approach to take!!

Thanks in advance everyone.

What was the cognitive assessment?

I can't say what you have posted would lead me to think ASD even privately, but nor would it rule it out.

Have you seen anyon else? Who is on the multi-team and when is the nod of the assessment process?

Oh, and welcome

Thanks :)

I'm not sure exactly what the cognitive assessment was - are there different types? She had blocks that he had to arrange in patterns and she asked him lots of questions and then scored him on his answers.

We've seen a speech and language therapist and an OT as well. I haven't seen the SALT since the psychologist started taking it a bit more seriously. The psychologist pretended to be an elephant spaying water at him and DS got really upset. I had said previously to her that he didn't like pretend play and got upset when his sister played games like that with him but she doesn't seem to want to take my word for it. So when she saw it in her office she started listening to my concerns a bit more but I still feel like I'm not being believed. Like, for example, the hand flapping, she said she hadn't seen it but she had when when she was blowing bubbles, so I pointed this out and she said 'well, he was excited then' but thus is when he does it!!!!

she sounds a bit rubbish then.

Why did she come? What is the intended outcome for your Ds of her visit?

Always ask this of all professionals.

Is it an Ed Psych or a Clinical Psych?

She's a clinical psychologist. We're seeing her so she can identify what his difficulties are. I'm not in the UK but I think the process is fairly similar. At the end of 3 months the multi disciplinary team meet and hopefully come to a diagnosis. I'm just feeling so frustrated with the whole process. It's baby steps all the way!