Aspergers and medical records

Post Reply New Topic

I have been told for about 13 years that my son most likely has Aspergers. I am okay with that part but never had him go through the testing. I felt like it was not going to offer any kind of benefit or solution. He has never had it to bad in school outside of the occasional new kids that would try to test him. He has always had great class mates to look out for him. He is now in 9th grade and the school is eating him up. Do I need the ppwk for help cuz the office seems to not give a rip about helping him adjust.

Give a copy to the school, but hold onto your original copy of the paperwork and keep it in a safe place. Don't make the same mistake my parents did. My original records virtually vanished when I exited public school, and I wasn't rediagnosed until a couple years later when a job corps program I briefly attended paid for a neuropsych assessment for me.

Yes. If you are in the united states and if you want him to have any kind of accommodations you will need to have him officially diagnosed. Why you waited until school is "Eating him up" is completely on you. The school is really under no obligation to do anything on it's own.

Depending on the district, you can get a decent educational diagnosis through the school. Our district is bad at delivering services and making accommodations, but they use ADOS and I had no issues with how they did the educational diagnosis, itself.

I can understand holding off, until there was a problem b/c you really don't know what your kid can do on his own; but once you have trouble, it can spiral downward very fast. You will need to call an IEP meeting and talk about them doing an educational diagnosis, and assistance. Many people on here have found that process to be inadequate and were forced to get a medical diagnosis elsewhere and present it to them. That said, they still have to do their own assessment b/c a medical diagnosis does not necessarily map to what specific adaptations or services he will need.

Also, typically kids on the spectrum will need Speech, even if they are very verbal -- to help with pragmatic language and social nuance related to this. I would heartily recommend that you access that if you think it would be helpful.