Hi all
As I hadn't had any feedback after J's ADOS three weeks ago (and had been promised a response within two weeks), I phoned the dept yesterday and spoke to the SW who had conducted the test. Apart from the fact that the psychiatrist who's coordinating the assessment has little conception of waiting lists or timescales generally , the SW said the psych shouldn't have given me a provisional dx of AS until more investigation had been done and that ... wait for it ... although J scored significantly on the ADOS and there are several 'worrying factors', it doesn't necessarily mean that he has ASD or AS. Now I'm VERY confused. The Psych said she was 99% certain he has AS and advised me to run off and find out as much as possible about it and treat him as if that's what the problem is, but now I'm being told that it might be something else altogether. I even sent off for NAS membership at the weekend. Has anyone else ever come across this? I'm extremely baffled.
On top of that, on re-reading the paperwork the SENCO gave me before Easter, school haven't requested a stat assessment yet as I'd been given to believe. SENCO had told me at our first meeting that Ed Psych would become involved once J's IEP was at School Action Plus, which it now is, but that doesn't mean a statement application does it?
It's all getting too much for my cognitive impairment to cope with! Made contact with Parent Partnership today and have a meeting on Tuesday, so hopefully I'll get some support to make sense of it all.