ADOS

[littlemisschatalot]

Currently doing ADOS COURSE. anything anyone wants me to ask the trainers?

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Hi, my son has just completed an ados and the outcome was he is not ASD unlike quite a few people including profs think. I have a report which should of had the ados report included however it isn't. When offering the report around for people to read people can't understand how he didn't get the dx. Son is also down syndrome, SLD, SPD, challenging behaviour among others. We have basically been told he is functioning around 12-18 months although he is 8 next week. His SPD is underestimated and not getting the correct help. One of the things remembered from the ados was that he copyed the prof fly an aeroplane made from bricks. If he was autistic he wouldn't have done this. However if his functioning is slow how does she know he was thinking it was anything or other than youv'e done it so I will. Copying is an autistic trait. I will email you the report if you want it for your training etc.

hmm see i never her d of ados even though ped thinks s he not asd thought he is showing signs is rather thnjust gd and sli ,So is it always the tool for diagnosing

DS didnt get dx,d on the basis of the ADOS,i think that for children at the higher end of the spectrum the ADOS doesnt pick up their subtle difficulties,we did eventually get him dx,d but after a battle.

im sure it is a good diagnostic tool but in our DS,s case it wasnt.

My son's dx with ASD did involve the ADOS test. My question about it is quite random, he had previously met the SALT who did the test on a couple of occasions and he was always very hostile towards her. (he is very happy to engage with his new SALT). He really took to the OT and did his best to avoid the SALT as much as possible on the test. If a child didn't like one of the administrators would it alter the results? Or is such behaviour deemed to be an ASD trait?

When ds was assessed,one of the questions they asked him at the end was whether he would like to be married one day
(ds took this literally and thought the salt was proposing and was completely unsure what to say!)
But anyway...i've always thought it was a really odd question to ask a child...even an nt one tbh. What is it's purpose?

lol at marriage proposal

ok, will ask these questions tomorrow.

It's to show the person has a grasp of abstract questions, future events I think (the marriage one). I'd hope they wouldn't just ask it as a closed question though, if Ds1 was asked it he'd probably say "yes" as that's his standard response to things he doesn't understand.

I think it picks up subtleties really well - it picked up everything about my HF boy that I'd missed and this despite him having been mis-dx'd as just ADHD and been in the CAMHS/ statementing/ ed. psych system for 1.5 years, so it must have been pretty subtle autism at that time but he scored really highly. The feedback from the ADOS was what made me see that he really did have it and why, despite my denials.