Joined: 3/3/2010
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Hello all, My son is in Pre-k and the teacher is pushing to have him classified through special ed. We did have him tested and they said their was a number of possibilities, one was a Asberger's, another ADD. Currently I am a teacher in High school and consider myself pretty open and aware of what is happening but somethings don't fit in my knowledge base of Autism some i come to you for information. The pre-k teacher has identified Gross motor skills, and social skills, and eye contact as the major issues. I observed for a day and i did notice he was behind his peers in motor control, observed by coloring and a class project. However he wasn't the only one who had issues coloring. She had issues with his needing to be told over and over to do his "jobs" when every one else is getting them done with out being told, and they need to say on him to get things done. Another issue was the eye contact, and it was noticable, he did not seem the way he does at home. Questions: 1- Know ing that he doesnt have these issues at home with his parent or family in the area, is Asbergers something that can have such a huge swing in noticability. 2- My wife had similar issues when she was growing up, and come to find out it was that she was very shy, could some of this be early signs of being shy? 3- The school district said they would reevaluate in 6 months do we have the rights to push that up? 4- Is their a correlation between ADD ADHD and asberger in 5 year olds 5- Is their specific questions i should ask the phychologist when we talk next 6- my wife is convinced he is just shy, what is the possibility that she had an issue in school that was never diagnosed? Has any one ever had a child tested and then found out a parent had it as well. I love my wife and son and am trying to get to the bottom of this, I understand the Pre-k teacher concerns, but what if he is just a little slow to develop? How did you all know the difference? Thank you for your time and help..
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Joined: 11/23/2009
Posts: 3
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I don't know that I can address all of your questions but I think I might be able to help with two. First of all, you absolutely DO have the right to push the evaluation date up. You are your son's best advocate. You also could have him evaluated by another group (you didn't mention who did the 1st evaluation). Yes, he might be just shy or a little more immature than his peers. When my son 1st started displaying what sounds similar, we decided to keep him in an extra year of pre-school (late summer birthday anyway). When things didn't seem to be changing much over time, I kept pushing and pushing to find out what was going on (and his physical milestones were all fine). It wasn't until last spring that we finished a formal, outside of school evaluation and found out that our then 12 1/2 year old son was on the autistic spectrum (PDD/NOS). Things finally started to make sense. His social and emotional issues fit in with what they were saying. Again, your son may or may not be just shy. Go with your gut on this. It's nice to hear that this boy has two parents that truly care about what is going on with him.
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