hello...new to all this...my ds saw paed today...

[AeFondKiss]

ds is 3.4 and he has been (sort of) seeing salt for the last year...

today we saw the consultant paediatrician for an hour and although he said he was not giving a diagnosis yet, he has said that our son has some asd traits... we are to go back in 6 months

dh is going to school with dh this week for a meeting with the ed psych, so they can see about him getting help at pre-school nursery...

I am 34, my dd is six, I am a sahm, I have been hanging about here for a while, I have cried all day.

I am so glad this board exists, I have found it very good as a lurker, I still feel very isolated and sad... but I hope you won't mind me joining you all and looking for advice

tia

Welcome (Even though you'd probably rather not be here....)

thank you gess, you are right, but I am sure no-one wants to be here....

Welcome to the SN board. I have 2 boys with ASD (4yrs and 7yrs).

thanks coppertop...

I feel slightly (understatement?) overwhelmed, but I want to be reading something.... can any of you point me in the right direction....is there a faq on sn?

shameless plug

We've been banging onto mnet HQ for years about a SN FAQ, but nothing yet. The shamless plug link will give you something to read though

Check out the NAS as well of course.

i'm new on here too, haven't even got as far as knowing the abb's!!!

i have 2 kids, 9 and 3. youngest has sn's tho no diagnosis and doubt i'll ever get one. nice to know there are others out there in this position. well, not nice but, u know.........

Welcome to the SN board too, Vintage.

AeFondkiss - The NAS site is a good place to start for general information and a look at what's out there.

Portage is also really useful for pre-schoolers if you haven't already heard of them.

Portage website

dd had portage til she started school last wk - fab service

Welcome

You're amongst some lovely and helpful people here (says me, a relative newbie!)

You'll soon feel like an oldie.

I think I should've phrased that differently.

Hello and welcome Aefondkiss and vintage73.

thanks coppertop, I had a look at the portage but we live in a grey area, tried googling for scotland, but no luck...

my head aches from crying and reading....

hello vintage

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see I can't even keep up with this thread, I am a hopeless case

waving to sidge and totalchaos

This site has useful info on speech exercises etc:-

www.speechteach.co.uk/index.htm

you might also find the hanen site useful:-

www.hanen.org

if portage doesn't operate in your area, you should still have some form of local early years service dealing with special needs/inclusion or whatever the local term might be. I imagine that will be who ed psych/nursery liaise with regarding getting him help.

thanks tobysmumkent, I do feel isolated, and dread elling people....

totalchaos I am very grateful, going to bed now, but I will look at those links tomorrow.

thank you all for the warm welcome, should I send mn a remindeer that we need an faq? is there a petition I can sign?

hi everyone. have just realised what free time is again after dd started school last wk - getting nothing done, just watching crap tv!! think i spent last 3 yrs reading, researching, crying, hoping, etc

Hi AeFondKiss, welcome from me too. I have a son aged 7 with AS as well, so like everybody else here, I know where you are coming from. There seems a lot to learn doesn't there - all a bit daunting.

Good luck with the ed psych this week.

hello to you both & hope you get loads of support on here.
I have 2 boys the youngest has CP, GDD, OCD/poss ASD.

Hi, This is such a welcoming board and i wish I had known about it sooner. I remember thinking we seemed so alone.

I'm mum to two chaps. son 1 has aspergers, dyspraxia, dyslexia, auditory and visual processing and some s&L difficulties and it looks horrible all written down like that yet he's lovely. He is 12 now but was diagnosed with the ASD side when around 3 to 4 ish. Had to battle with the dyspraxia side (which was sooo patently obvious and causes us the most problems). The other stuff has been found out on the way.

son 2 is just a pickle!

Welcome to you both. I have a DS who is almost 4 and has HFA and hyperlexia.