Finally got an appt for dx either way for DS - any information I need to take???

[Hymum]

Finally got an appointment through for DS, who is 8, for the middle of May.

We have seen all the other bodies before now and I am guessing that this is the biggy - the decider - the yes he has, no he hasn't appointment.

They are all leaning towards AS and although I have been in denial for quite some time I am beginning to see what everyone else sees and have come to realise that everything that I accept as "just the way he is" isn't helping him at all.

My question is, do I need to prepare for this meeting or take things like old reports of anything. Or do we just turn up and they chat to DS and try to work him out?

All the other appts were with people in a less formal way .... I am a bit nervous about this one...

good luck with this if this is multi disciplinary assessment then we had to just turn up take paper with all your concerns etc

if not then i have no idea im afraid when ds was dx we had multi disciplinary assessment i just took a list of my concerns how he is around people how he acts how he handles different things and then i could answer there questions without missing anything out

i hope you get the answer needed to enable your ds to have the help he deserves good luck its a nerve wrecking time xxx

Thanks so much. Yes it is a multi disciplinary assessment he has. I will make a note of things over the next two weeks. Again, thanks for the good advice.

Hi Hymum, yes, agree with the others. Take along anything you think might help guide them, good bad or otherwise.

They'll be looking at everything about how he was as a baby and toddler and now, to how he copes at school, at parties, if something unexpected happens, if someone messes up his plans or his carefully-ordered things, etc. They'll be thinking about sensory issues like sensitivity to noise, patterns, smells, textures, uncomfortable clothes or shoes etc. They'll be thinking about whether he can use eye contact and body language in a very comfortable and natural way. They'll be listening to the way he uses language and his tone of voice. It is very 'standard', or does he sound like a Little Professor? (we often do when we learn to speak). They'll also think about his friendships: Can he play in a casual, chatty, relaxed way in which he understands sharing and can see the other child's point of view and adapt to the other child's needs, or does it have to be his very-expected rules-of-play otherwise he panics or stops playing or gets cross or takes over?

It'll take a while to answer that lot!

I'd love to hear more about him - what's he like?