IMHO this will be very good________11 year old girl with autism______

[RTKangaMummy]

SUNDAY 26 NOVEMBER

Children

A Different Life

12:05pm - 12:35pm

Five

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Subtitles

8/13 - Rosie

The documentary series following the lives of children who live in unusual circumstances here focuses on 11-year-old Rosie. When she was just three years old, Rosie was diagnosed with autism. Throughout her brief career at nursery and primary school, she was unable to develop speech and communication skills and failed to progress as a result. Now, through learning with her mum, she is beginning to master speech.

will watch. thanks

Going by the other children that have been on DIFFERENT LIFE it should be deffo brill

It shows it from the child's pov and usually shows what they do in a normal day

Like they had a blind girl and she showed how she went to school etc

LAst week was a child who went to a school in a tent in the woods

Every week is different but are very good

Please don't miss this

I think it will be very good

bumpity bump

please bump in the morning

cos I don't want you guys to miss this

Don't forget this @ 12.05 channel 5

JUST ABOUT TO START

CH 5

im watching! bless her walking backwards into the supermarket, must be so hard for her.

was very good, she was lovely and her brother was a little star

oh bollards- for some reason I thought this was on at 9pm!

I thought her older bro was lovely too

It was very good imho - obviously as it was on a children's programme it was made for their level iyswim

Sorry jimjams I don't think it is repeated hence why I kept alerting and bumping it sorry you missed it

oh don't worry I do stuff like this all the time these days!

Oh b*gger! I went out this afternoon and forgot all about it.

ditto coppertop - I had it on auto as well, after seeing kanga's reminder!

Thanks RTKM. Such a good insight into Rosie's life and actually a very positive one too.

Her brother really reminded me of how my own ds is with dd.

Although dd is on the higher end of asd I had to laugh at some of the things Rosie did, like watching dvd's in German, Spanish etc as that's what my dd does!

The walking backwards in the Supermarket made loads of sense too. She didn't want anything such as sounds, lights, smells etc to surprise her so seeing it other way she could cope more!

Does your DD watch the same scene on dvd over and over again as well?

I am glad you thought it was good

If your DS is like Rosie's bro he is a deffo brill boy

If it comes round again as a repeat in 6 months time I will alert again and again so you don't miss it

would Rosie be classed as having high functioning autism? or would you say she is quite severley autistic? to me, (I know hardly anything about autism) she seemed to cope with most things quite well, especially interacting with the other children.

lanismum ~ From what I know I would say Rosie isn't high functioning. She seemed more moderate to severe.
Her speech was very very limited.

From the description below (of mastering speech) she sounds moderately autistic to me (especially if she is interacting a bit), but I didn't see it. Grrr I am so dense!

Ds1 is classed as severely autistic, doesn't talk, has to have someone holding onto him outside the whole time, all windows and external doors in the house locked, interacts with adults, but not really with children (even sibling interaction is limited). Not sure how she compared.

thanks blossom hill, was just wondering really

Was she talking in sentences? My friend's dd is what I would call moderately autistic. She talks, but she isn't really conversational, she can answer the phone but the conversation is often bizarre. She doesn't have great road sense, but doesn't need someone to hold on to her at all times when outside.

jimjams, Rosie coped with the supermarket quite well, she was not being held onto the whole time, but she did get very upset by a loud tannoy, what speech she had was clear, but she only used a few words at a time iykwim, with the other kids, she played quite well, until she felt there were too many others on the trampoline with her, then she went off on her own.

Her mum was holding her arm when she was out

she didn't talk in sentances in words but has only recently started saying odd words

She is taught at home by her mum and a helper/teacher

she didn't understand what school was

Apart from that her bro was being collected in car from there - when they were in car waiting for him