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My son's teacher thinks it's possible that he has asperges syndrome. He has just turned 6. I am fortunate enough to work for psychologists who assure me that it is not possible to diagnose asperges in a child at such a young age. They have explained some of the symptoms and very few seem to apply to my child, although I don't see him at school and he apparently is very anti-social which he is not at home. He is also ADHD and on medication. If any one has advice for me it would be much appreciated. ↓
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| Name: ltl | Date: Mar 11th, 2007 8:38 PM |
| HI Tracey, aspergers can be diagnosed at any age, it all depends on when a person have the child evaluated. Anyway, from what I understand is that ASD, whether it's aspergers or not, have a collection of behaviors. Can not say a child/person is ASD based on isolated behaviors. For example, all ASD kids/people have different sets of behaviors (spectrum) but they all share 3 things in common: social disorders, difficulty in communicating, and some repetitive stereotypic behaviors. So a person can be ADHD and is not on the spectrum...but it can be the reverse, in other words, some kids on the spectrum can show some heperactivities. You can find some compulsive behaviors in typically developing kids, but again, they have typical develope communicating skills and social skills. Some kids may not be "social butterflies" and is normal developing kids. Let's be honest, most of us have some unusal habits or perfer to spend times to our selves, but we are not on the spectrum. However, if we were to be put in a social gathering, we know how to communicate, and that's what separate us from ASD people. Hope my opinion is not offensive....I was wondering is your son's medication helping him? If in doubt, please have him officially evaluated so that you can take steps in helping him in areas that he is weak in. :-) ↑ |
| Name: tracey | Date: Mar 12th, 2007 8:34 AM |
| Hi ltl, thank you for your reply. I assure you it is not offensive, I need as much input as possible. I am taking my son to the psychologist who diagnosed his ADHD this week. I have spoken a lot with her over the last few days and I have been watching my son closely. When at social gatherings outside of school he is fine, but on occasions he likes to withdraw and be on his own, I know the feeling as I am like that too. Anyway we (the psychologist and I) feel that his behaviour at school stems from the difficult year he had last year, which was his first year at the school. He was assessed for ADHD, Occupational Therapy and Speech therapy. He was very disruptive in class and got a lot of flak from a teacher who was ill equipped to deal with him. As a result we think he lost his self-confidence, but she is going to do some play therapy with him and various tests to see where we stand on the aspergers syndrome. On the medication front, it is definately helping in class. He is more focused, has more pride in his work and is keeping up with the majority. Thank you.:) ↑ |
| Name: ltl | Date: Mar 14th, 2007 4:39 AM |
| Oh that's great Tracey!!! I'm hoping that he will continually do well throughout the school year as he becomes more acclimated to the school settings. I'm so encouraged to see that the med is helping and that he's gainning more self confidence!!!! :-) ↑ |
| Name: goodmommyof2 | Date: Apr 7th, 2007 7:23 PM |
| My son is 7 years old and the school called us in for a conference and told us they see some autistic traits with my son. We took him to see a psychologist and he has since been diagnosed with mild autism and severe ADHD. They thought he might have asperges due to his vocabulary, but after several tests he is simply mildly autistic. When I read autism or aspergers I tell my self this doesn't sound like my son but I have sinced learned that there are so many spectrums of autism there is no text book description. He is on medication for ADHD and just started medication for his behaviors. However he is completely shy at school. His teacher has called him a loner on several occasions. The problem is that my son is very social at home and with family friends who have children. He often talks of the kids in his class but once he is around them he goes into his shell, almost like he doesn't know how to be their friends. I know how hard it is to try and get help with issues that you just don't see. Perhaps you could ask your psychologist if they offer a "case managment program" my son just began that after it was suggested by his psychologist. Basically the psychologist told the case manager that my son is having problems at school, so this man meets with my son and goes to school to have lunch with my son and volunteers in the classroom. He also comes by the house to visit and takes him to activities in the neighborhood. This process helps my son with social anxiety and builds his self confidence but the most important thing is he is the psycologists eyes and ears to relay information on what is going on and things they see that trigger these problems. I hope this information can help you because no parent wants to label there child with something they don't see but the sooner you get it worked out the sooner your child can start getting help:-) ↑ |
| Name: paul88 | Date: May 15th, 2007 9:31 PM |
| i have aspergers and to be 100% honest with you it is vertualy impossible for one person to know all the symptoms let alone tell you them, there are quite litteraly 1000's of symptoms and each aspergernaut will have there own selection of them. Aspergers is not actualy an autism or a disorder realy. there are bad points and good points. if you want to ask me any questions then add my msn [email protected] im happy to answer any! ↑ |
| Name: paul88 | Date: May 15th, 2007 9:35 PM |
| oh and some of the most popular symptoms are, a, not able to walk in a perfectly straight line b, finds colours very interesting and c, have issues with food products, for example you may find that s/he has an obsession with a perticular drink or food. also another thing that can realy confuse thing is that sometimes the symptoms can be the direct oppersit! for example extremely good at maths or extremely terrible at maths rather than having a fair understanding of it. ↑ |
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