ConfusedNewb
Deinonychus
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Wow thats a really nice drawing, she obviously enjoys doing it!  It really sounds like you are doing your best for her. I think when we have kids, what used to be our immediate family (parents and siblings) get pushed back a bit and our partner and children become our closest family, quite rightly. I know thats happened with both my own family and my in-laws. I can imagine when this happens to me I wont like it much and may not like being a Grandmother figure instead of a mother so I do try to involve them as much as I can. But my daughter is MY daughter before she is their granddaughter or neice and I know her well enough to know what she needs and wants until she can do that for herself (assuming that day comes) then I can only observe and will have to take a back seat.
If shes happy at home with you drawing and you are happy with that then I dont see a problem! Sounds like you are doing a great job, like I said in my last post all I want is for my little girl to be happy and if theres somethign there an early diagnosis is the best thing to help her get through the struggles to come. |
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Chronos
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 5:25 pm Post subject: Re: Frustrated, when family doesn't believe your child is as |
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| Two of the criteria for a diagnosis of AS is that the person must have at least average intelligence and no life skills delays other than social. The person also may not have clinically significant language delays. If she has such profound life skills and language delays, and is intellectually impaired to such an extent then she should not have received a diagnosis of AS but perhaps would meet the criteria of a diagnosis of HFA or PDDNOS. |
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Chronos
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Callista wrote: | | Meh... Does it really matter which she has? Her traits have been defined; she's on the spectrum; she's getting help. Why bother with semantics? |
The flu, pertussis, and the common cold all have similar symptoms but they are not the same thing and must be dealt with differently.
The common cold will run it's course and is generally not much of a threat to the majority of individuals.
Pertussis is not much different than the common cold in adults, however entails coughing fits which can prove fatal to infants and the elderly, and should be vaccinated against. If one contracts pertussis it's advised that they be started on anti-biotics and refrain from venturing out in public to limit the spread of the infection.
The flu can be treated with tamiflu if caught early, and left unchecked, some strains have resulted in epidemics that have caused significant loss of human life.
The original poster is being faced with the difficulties she is being faced with because she is assigning a definition to her child which does not properly fit her child. So it is not an issue of semantics any more than calling a cold, the flu, and pertussis the same thing is.
Sometimes the differences matter more than the similarities. |
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Vastarien202
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Joined: Apr 07, 2010
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Wow, such a lovely drawing! A noble beast indeed. |
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Aspimum
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I work as an SEN teacher in a centre for children with speech and language problems within a mainstream school. The entry criteria is that they must have age-appropriate skills in all areas except speech and language. The truth is, though, it's very hard to identify, sometimes, whether their lack of, say, writing ability is due to a language difficulty, a speech sound production difficulty, or something else entirely. We find that most of our children have difficulty retaining information and need to be taught things lots of times. Some of our children are very bright, and score really highly on non-verbal tests. Some of them, less so. Some turn out to have general learning difficulties after receiving intensive speech therapy for a while. Sometimes we have children with ASD diagnoses co-morbid with the SLD. Sometimes it's Asperger's. I think it's very difficult to always be certain that you have the 'right' label. Sometimes where one label ends and the next begins isn't so obvious, especially when there are 2 or 3.
As for your daughter, I imagine that prolonged exposure to her would 'cure' your family of thinking she can cope OK. Perhaps they could come and visit for a little longer and see for themselves?
Her dragon reminds me a little of Blake.
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