Speech and language targets for ASD

[RoleyMo64]

Hi

My son (age 11) is currently being assessed for ASD. He is seeing the speech therapist at school (privately, but within school time) who is not a specialist in ASD. She's been working on emotion recognition, and some discussion of social situations. Emotion recognition is getting somewhere (as in he can now recognise some of the simpler ones). Discussion of social situations less so :-(

She is now asking me what else I want her to work on - and I don't know. I know what he can't do iyswim but I can't just say "give him some social understanding".

How can I break this down? Should I even be bothering with this or should I go to the (out of school) SALT who does have experience of ASD?

Hello, I shall be following this thread with interest. Did the independent SALT assess him before starting to work with him? I would have thought the programme would be based on the findings?

My 9 year old AS ds was recently assessed by an independent ASD specialist SALT at school, and the report highlighted various issues, and the input recommended was based on thes findings. I quote the relevant section here:

Ds would benefit from:

1. working through the Talk Tools horn and straw hierarchy to develop his oro--motor skills, as well as some sound sequencing work
2. Inclusion in a weekly social skills group in schoool
3. Working through a 1-1 language programme and IEP targets to focus on the following areas:

• auditory memory
• inference
• Social skills
• Word finding

A programme will be provided following liaison with ds' class teacher.

Hope this helps.

zzzzz thanks for that. She is doing an assessment on him next time she sees him (for the paed, to feed into the dx process).

I believe she did assess him the first time she saw him but I don't have a report or any feedback at all. I should probably ask for that actually.

Every time I ask how he is doing or what he is working on she says "he's fine" but then in the detailed notes for the homework it's clear there's aspects he doesn't get/needs to work on so it's mixed messages really.

She does ask what would i like to work on; the trouble is I know that he doesn't get a lot of social situations but I don't know what particular element is causing the failure iyswim - so previously he would misinterpret body language and that led to problems but until the SALT pointed it out to us we didn't know that was what was happening.

Iceflower, it sounds like you are getting much clearer communication from your SALT. Inference and social skills are key words with us as well. I will try dropping them into the next conversation :)