Please talk to me about PDD-NOS

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Hi all,

Am doing an assignment on special needs for my teaching assistant course and have chosen PDD-nos.... Needed it to be lesser known than the usual ADHD or ASD that crops up and the tutor has multiples of the same to read lol!!!

Please could you just write your experiences here and I can 'watch' it to come back to when it comes to it!!

Eternally and forever thankful

PDD-NOS isn't that common a diagnosis over here in the UK tbh, so you might be better off with something like parent's experiences with language delay/disorder or GDD.

If you did ASD, I bet you could write a load that your tutor will have never read before.

And ADHD for that matter, and probably many of the other more usual dx.

What is the title, or assignment question?

btw, unless you come back and 'engage', I doubt you'll just get people to write your essay for you.

You never know though.

Just got to carry out some research on an area of special needs......

She has been a senco so will know quite a bit - I could do ASD from a personal point of view with my son so fancied something a bit lesser known - possibly fragile X or one of the others - open to other suggestions tho??

'She has been a senco so will know quite a bit'

What kind of 'research'? Research into what? Parenting strategies, teaching methodologies, support systems, legal aspects, behavioural, medication, peer interaction, disability hate crimes?

The senco at our school is very good - as our the team she works with

The research that I need to look at are

Background information.....
Characteristics of the condition....
How it might affect the student....
Strategies.....

So nothing too testing- it is after all a TA/INA NVQ 3 qualification and not a full blown senco qualification.
All I'm really after is personal experiences - it's all very well googling formal websites and looking up the information but we all know that everyone is different and characteristics vary from one child to another. It'd be nice to have a couple of the children with the same disorder but different experiences to be able to make good comparisons and be able demonstrate everyone is different.

Of course I will keep coming back - I usually 'check in' with MN at least once a day, but with 3 children, 2 jobs, an nvq and a uni course going on, time is limited so if I don't reply for an hour or even 1/2 a day then that'll be why!