Joint assessment clinic with speech therapist and paed

[nikos]

Anyone know what I should expect? Ds is 3.5 and being investigated for Aspergers.

I'm a salt.
It will be quite informal.You will be asked a lot of questions and they will give your ds toys to play with and either watch you with him or interact with him themselves.

Please don't worry. They will try to put you at your ease.Write down anything important you want to discuss beforehanf.

Best of luck.

Thanks Moondog. I really trust the speech therapist involved as she is an expert in autism. She saw ds about 10 weeks ago at nursery and thought he was showing some Aspergers traits. He has improved so much since then (I go into nursery to support him). I thought about doing a list of bullet points of definite unautistic traits (ds good eye contact and imaginitive play and has no obsessions/eats well/sleeps well) and the behaviour that is still causing concern (still some aggression/echolalia/lack of social interaction). Would this be a good idea.

DS was at joint clinic last month. As SALT had done an observation at his nursery the month before, it was felt they didn't need much more info on the language side of things. The paed took a detailed history from me of DS health, development and behaviour, the ed psych did a few non-verbal tests on DS (very low profile, getting him to copy pattersn, match categories), and they all watched DS playing with teaset/doll/horse etc. I think a list of what does and doesn't concern you is a good idea.

Yes Nikos, excellent idea, as are things pointed out by the other gals.