OK folks can someone clear this up for me please

[2shoes]

I had dd's respite review this week
the delightful SW was there.
and the lady who runs the respite bit.
well I was reading the form from the last meeting and notice it said that dd has a learning disabilty......
so I said to SW " dd does not have a LD"
respite lady who has known dd for yonks said"no she doesn't"
between us we then explained to sw that although dd is delayed that is because of her CP and not because she has a LD.
SW then said "well what does her pead say"
I bit my tounge and just said " I say she hasn't got a LD"

so that was the end of it.

dd is 14 and has severe cp but I have never been told that she has a LD.
surely just the DX of CP is all the SW needed.
confused person here

ah rite... im less confused now, thanks riven

nothings simple

I aggree riven.
I think that is where the confusion starts.

SM, I'm as confused as the eest of us I think, but:
'So, - what I want to know is can you have ASD without a Learning Disability?'

My son has AS, and is also regarded as having no LDs. But he needs certain reasonable accommodations to facilitate his learning, mainly to do with adaptation of teaching style and location and materials.
So he needs to sit on his own, at the front but offside and preferably near a wall. Group work needs to be a bare minimum. He needs his own worksheet, microscope, whatever. If the teacher is giving a global instruction to the class whilst other stuff is going on eg music, bag packing, moving around they need to make sure he gets his own, tagged with his name, or he won't hear it.And his Time Out card is in his pocket.
So he doesn't need classroom support or 1:1, just an awareness of his needs. He's predicted Bs and As for GCSE.

My view is that beacuse the autistic spectrum is so broad, at one end you will have an ASD child who has SLD wheras at the other end (Aspergers) the child may have a specific learning dificulty - such as social interaction / communication.

Bewteen thse 2 extremes you will have ASD children with various degrees of MLD.

Long time, no communication. Happy Christmas. Boy wants a kayak, but it's a bugger to wrap.

DS2 has CP, ASD & learning difficulties. Not sure if its part of the CP, Part of the ASD or just generally due to the brain damage, but he definatly has difficulty learning... thats not to say he does not have reasonable intelligence his receptive language & general understanding are within normal limits.
His psych was very clear that his development is more disordered than delayed.

Complicated init!

Hi, Have a great Christmas. Bit cold for a kayak this time of year brrrrr!