multi disciplinary meeting - confused

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Ds has come home with a letter in his book bag stating the school are organising a multi-disciplinary meeting and will inform me of the date.

Im confused!

1. Ds has never had a multi-disciplinary assessment, so who will the school be inviting?

1. Do you need to have a MD assessment before you can have a MD meeting.

The only person who has been into school is senior SALT to assess after Paed requested this.

Consistency is the last thing that it ensures, more like repetition! I will go and repeat ds's history again, something that is extremely well documented and has never changed. Back to square one!

Starlight, the new paed since moving borough has been brill, he has really taken charge. Thats been my problem with multi approach, locum paed would leave and no one was holding it all together, but me.

Thank you, im feeling more positive about it, believe it or not, you should see me on a bitter day!

Consistency between different cases.

ExH, me and Ds attended teh first CAMHS session (the initial meeting). We didn;t take DS1 = no point.

It seems to be standrad pratice to invite the family. One of the approaches mentioned in the initial literature sent to us pre-meeting was 'Family Therapy'. They must have determined we didn't need any as we were never offered any in the 6 years son was seen by CAMHS.

take your reports - give them photocopies - they will add weight to what you are telling the clinicians.

But TBH I think this bring the whole family is just part of the 'process'. They deal with every type of MH issue: anorexia, self-hraming, child abuse etc etc and many of these problems do stem from family interaction.

I really don't think CAMHS should be involved in ASD - just my opinion based on having to try to explain to ASD son why someone would want to starve themselves or why there were pools of blood in the corridor of the in-patient unit. I don't think they (ASD) should be exposed to these things - they can't handle it and it freaks them out.

Rant over!

We don't have any layers of checks! We were straight to paed - then multi team assessment - which meant SALT at home and nursery + clin psych at home. Both SALT and clin psych (at out pushing) gave a verbal dx the first time we saw them. Once the paed had confirmed with the nursery DS had definitely lost skills and we weren't just mad parents imagining it (oh to take a parents word for it) we were straight through system in 3 months. Of course then we sat around for 10 months & counting waiting for the SALT and autism provision to actually start....

Debs, yes sorry i was just being flippant.

Just copied and hand delivered copies of SALT report, Social and Communication assessment, most recent Paed report and ds's hospital discharge sheet. Despite being told that they had recently received copies of ALL reports and had 'lots of info' on ds, turns out they did not have copies of these.

Only reports they had are the bibic report, Ed Psy report and IEP from school, which i sent to them last week!

Grumpy, thats brill. My brother who was severely ASD, didnt receive a dx until he was 20+, mind you that was 20 odd years ago, i suppose things have changed for the better!