how many of your children with ASD passed development checks??

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Just wondering really. DD2 has her indepth developmental assessment today. A lot of focus on physical development which is fine for her now although late milestones early on. She is below "normal age range" for speech and language. She can chat away and speech itself is clear but her understanding isnt. Like yesterday the door bell went and she said "I'll get it" but didnt go to get it or move at all, iyswim.

DD1 failed hearing checks 3 times when they used to do distraction test, but passed everything else.

Are these tests the reason why so many ASD children without the language difficulties are missed??

Did make me laugh that everytime the lady built the blocks into a tower she took them down and lined them up though

We now wait 3 months for another appointment but if its the same ones as this lot, i dont think we will get far.

That's the one, NorthernSky. Does seem to be the case with our DS. He was initially assessed for hearing problems. His most-uttered phrase is 'Wot you say?' about 10 mins after we speak.

Thats really interesting as OT lead me to believe that children who were over-responsive to sound (hands over ears kids) was because the stimuli is received faster than normal hence making them over-responsive.

Ds has been assessed for hearing problems (he doesnt have any) and does the pause before answering or the 'huh'.

OT explained that to me as he is trying to filter all the other stimuli as its being received too fast.

The receiving it slower, blows that theory out of the water!

Morning Northernsky, she may well have been referring to the stimuli in general, its a complicated business isnt it! Her take on it seemed to be that the fact a child is over-responsive to any stimuli, would suggest input is received too fast. A child who is under-responsive would receive input too slow.

So although ds is over-responsive to sound, he at times 'appears' to be under-responsive ie not hearing, as his brain is receiving the input too fast and blocking out the relevant stimuli as well as the irrelevant back ground noise, hence the delay.

Although i think some children definitely have the 'overload' you describe, there are some children who are both under and over responsive in different senses. For example a child could be under-responsive in 4 of their senses, but yet over-responsive to sound, so wouldnt have the 'overload' from other senses.

Does that make sense?

I wonder if the ASD children who were tested were under-responsive to sound?

My DS is overresponsive to sound, but I think that as Northern said, it's likely that he is having to process too many things at once. It's intriguing, isn't it?

It is isnt it, especially as every child seems to have their own unique mix of over and under responsive.

My ds is over-responsive to sound, touch, taste, sight, smell. But under responsive in his vestibular and proprioceptive senses, making it even more complicated.

It would be so much easier to understand if they were all just over responsive or under responsive in all the senses!

Just to throw something else into the mix, OT also told that many ASD children also have sensory modulation disorder ot.huji.ac.il/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=40&Itemid=52 or sensory processing disorder www.sensory-processing-disorder.com/sensory-processing-disorder-checklist.html which goes undiagnosed in this Country.

Ds is exactly the same with pain, for example he used to head butt the wall and not a murmur from him, but if he fell over and had a tiny cut, we would never hear the end of it!

OT explained this as him being in control of the pain, banging his own head, he is control it, falling over is out of his control, its unpredictable.

OT has been the first and only expert who i have ever spoken to, to make sense of ds's behaviour. I have found it all very helpful, trying to understand the 'why' behind the behaviour often makes it easier to find solutions and improve on it.

For example ds refuses to wear pants (he HAS to on PE days!), if i let him choose between 2 pairs (he is in control) and is able to tolerate much better, at least without the temper tantrums anyway, school often find a discarded pair of pants in the toilets after PE, but its an improvement!