ASD/Language Disorder

[BlossomHill]

Sorry everyone if I am sounding like a parrot but is there anyone out there that can explain the difference between a language disorder/asd. Thanks BH

Hi

I haven't read this and it looks quite heavy going but I don't know if it might answer your questions.
www.mugsy.org/bishop.htm
Are you worrying that your dd is Asperger's not language disorder?

You've probably seen this but I thought this page was quite good.

spdparents.members.easyspace.com/articles.html

I hope someone does answer. I am starting to get paranoid my daughter has a language disorder because all her words are muddling

I've posted this before but you may not have seen it -

Autism, Asperger's syndrome and semantic-pragmatic disorder: Where are the boundaries?

As you will see there are no clear cut boundaries. However if you have concerns then you could go for another diagnosis. How are your dd's social skills, does she prefer to play alone, does she understand time, does she have any strange habits, want to do certain things in a certain way etc etc.??

Thanks Eulalia, think this line probably sums the whole question up TBH

If children with these problems could be arranged in an orderly series, starting from the most autistic child at one end and extending to the child who most clearly had nothing but a developmental receptive speech disorder at the other, to say where the dividing line should be drawn would need the judgement of Solomon.

I think that was the answer that I needed!

I think you have to take into account sensory problems as well. Autistic children usually have really quite bad sensory problems (or at least they don't deal with them well). That's what I like about "a positive approach to autism" by Stella Waterhouse - she looks at the underlying sensory difficulties in autism and related disorders and notes how they affect the behaviour/ability to decode and learn language etc.

Hi Saker

It's v. unlikely that dd has aspergers as her language is so disordered IYSWIM.

I think it's more likely that she has a SPD and that explains the extremely mild autistic features that she sometimes displays.

I am on Spdparents all of the time!!!!

BH

Jimjams - Where do you find out about all of these books? Can you hire them out of the library as it can work out quite expensive!