Have Specialist SALT report and was wondering whether you would consider ds's difficulty mild or not? High functioning? it reads
Attention and listening skills
Ds was described by his teacher as being able to focus in the classroom, however on a 1:1 basis, he seemed quite agitated and moved around a lot on his chair. Within the class, he was observed to call peers to focus their attention.
Verbal comprehension
Ds is a little boy who is often confused by instructions and explanations. He is able to respond to simple questions about what is happening but finds it difficult when these questions involved any kind of inferring or deducing of info. He has some early concepts established including first and last but other more complicated time concepts such as before and after are not yet established. He has difficulties understand pronouns. Additionally, it was noted that he had some specific difficulties in understanding emotion based vocabulary and was unable to label. On many occassions, he seemed quite confused.
Expressive Language
He had some specific difficulties with sequencing ideas even at quite a simple level eg sequencing three pictures. This was also reflected in his ability to relate a narrative. He has some specific difficulties with vocabulary and often referred to things tangentially eg "13 one's candles" His output in general seems to involve quite simple sentence structures, often with quite muddled ideas within them.
Ds tends to talk in quite a lot of detail about topics in which he is interested, particularly ideas such as star wars.
Speech Sound Difficulties
Ds has some residual speech sound difficulties with blends and more complex high level sounds.
Non verbal Communication Skills
Ds eye contact was reasonably good when he was initiating communication with an adult but was not consistent with an interaction. He used nodding and gestural communication within his output.
Social interaction skills
Within a conversational context, ds was able to initiate some ideas, giving info about his grandmother etc he was able to cope with simple questions and a back and forth conversation involving a couple of different turns. However his conversation skills remain quite limited.
Within the classroom context, ds's teacher reports he is not a loner, however on the occasions that he was observed, it was notable that his communication attempts wre not directly specifically at other children and therefore missed by them.
Within the school context the following were observed.
Talked repetitively about some topics ie star wars
Ds is engaged in some repetitive behaviours eg rubbing his chin and mouth causing sores. There was also eye twitching observed and rocking within the assessment.
Some repetitive hand movements.
What kind of help should i be asking for, tips please?
Feeling nervous, his future is in my hands and i want to get this right