Hi,
I've posted this last week but in the Education SEN board so just thought I'd post here ....
Not sure if this is the only SEN section but seems a lot of similar stuff.
DS (10) has recently been diagnosed with autism.....after I got the GP to refer him to a private paediatrician and clinical psychologist. However, he was referred for a PDA assessment but they did a general autism one, including ADOS-2 (don't have the report for that yet) but ruled out PDA.
Their reason for ruling out PDA was because he was biddable as a toddler however, people on the PDA Society forum say their children were also biddable as toddlers because the pressure put on them was less (I.e. No school). We feel that most of his behaviours are demand avoidance.
My worry is that is just says autism and not Aspergers or high functioning autism etc. It also says he has sensory processing disorder (we kind of guessed that) and other writing problems but to me, 'autism' describes classic autism and suggests (or perhaps I'm totally wrong) that the child has learning disabilities rather than being very able but has learning issues. For example, he didn't have speech delay, he walked early, he is very tactile to friends, he has good eye contact, he understands emotions, he understands sarcasm etc. In fact, school didn't even notice there was anything than neuro typical behaviour.
Any ideas? Will the ADOS report specify something more than simply 'autism'? I thought perhaps that because Aspergers has not been included in DSMV they have just used the whole, generic term of autism?