So around this time last year B's psychologist suggested we should look into a few things as she suspected he may fall into a spectrum which is called Autism spectrum disorder!
WHAT??????????????
We were blown away and between us freaking out because our lil man was going to be labelled with something that we had not really heard of!
So we started by doing an assessment with this psychologist and we found he was alittle behind the rest of the 4 year olds in language!
Just as we were starting to work things into a good little routine (term4 late term 3) He starts to dig his heels in about going to kinder one of the children were hitting him! I informed the teacher but he was still coming up in bruises and saying that his "best friend" was now doing it too!
I confronted his teacher who then proceeds to inform me that my son is a bully as he won't leave the children alone when they say no so the end result is to hit or kick him! I was gob smacked how on earth can a teacher turn to a childs mother and say yes I know your child is being hit but he won't leave them alone! I thought it was their job to protect our children and not let them get hurt! So when I asked why it wasn't stopped she replied that it was but when they hit him it is because he is bullying them!
The next and final straw at that kinder was after rehersals for the concert one day she informed me that I should keep Brayden home from the concert because he is showing no interest of being apart of this and it is not worth "creating a scene"! I was so upset I kept him home from school and the concert and rang the president of the committee.
So we changed his kinder for this year and are all feeling a million times better and are seeing improvements in B we didn't think would happen! He even has new friends!!!!
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Our first experience with "help"
I have to point out from the start I am not going to name names and services because I don't feel comfortable naming them! I will refer to them as speech therapist and name professions though!
So the first person we saw was a child psychologist! Lovely person listened to me and listend to A but said she couldn't see or hear that B had any problems and so refered us to speech therapy to see if they could help! We saw this psychologist for about 5 sessions and she only saw B for 2 but that was ok she said she didn't think his difference was behavioural!
So off we went to a speech therapist in the same facility! I warned this therapist that you cannot approach B like a bull at a gate you have to acknowledge he is there then let him approach you or he will not respond well the therapsit acknowledges this and what happens next goes bounding over to B and Says "Hi Brayden my name is ....... How would you like to come and play with me for a little bit" Well B freaks and hides behind me doesn't he! We saw this therapist for about 5 sessions and in these sessions she would ask B ridiculous questions about things that you or I would go what on earth?! But anyway so in the last session we attended with this person they turned to me and said they didn't know how to help B because he was great with me and with his little brother but wouldn't even talk to her!
During this time we started with a different service and they started with a psychologist who we are seeing to this day! The difference was amazing!
Moral of the story Change your therapist until you are both comfortable or it just won't work!
So the first person we saw was a child psychologist! Lovely person listened to me and listend to A but said she couldn't see or hear that B had any problems and so refered us to speech therapy to see if they could help! We saw this psychologist for about 5 sessions and she only saw B for 2 but that was ok she said she didn't think his difference was behavioural!
So off we went to a speech therapist in the same facility! I warned this therapist that you cannot approach B like a bull at a gate you have to acknowledge he is there then let him approach you or he will not respond well the therapsit acknowledges this and what happens next goes bounding over to B and Says "Hi Brayden my name is ....... How would you like to come and play with me for a little bit" Well B freaks and hides behind me doesn't he! We saw this therapist for about 5 sessions and in these sessions she would ask B ridiculous questions about things that you or I would go what on earth?! But anyway so in the last session we attended with this person they turned to me and said they didn't know how to help B because he was great with me and with his little brother but wouldn't even talk to her!
During this time we started with a different service and they started with a psychologist who we are seeing to this day! The difference was amazing!
Moral of the story Change your therapist until you are both comfortable or it just won't work!
Into and the start
Welcome,
I decide today that I needed a place to vent and share my families experiences with our son Brayden on his journey to being diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Brayden is 5 years old and a gorgeous boy who unless he was having a bad day you wouldn't even know something was different about him! He is the oldest of 3 with a younger brother Lachlan (Lachie) and baby sister Eliza.
He lives with his mum and dad and brother and sister and attends 4 year old kinder 3 days a week!
I frist noticed a difference between Brayden and his friends at mum's group when he was about 18 months old! He would sit on his own and investigate the car he was playing with in a world of his own while his friends (who were all 3 months younger than him) would be saying plane and copter and playing happily with their toys!
I brought up these concerns with our Maternal child health nurse and she said he was just alittle slower at talking than the others and not to worry because he had done everything else at the "normal" times!
The subject of something being different about Brayden wasn't brought up again till he was 3 and a half when we saw a new health nurse and she could see the differences too! And so begins our journey........
I decide today that I needed a place to vent and share my families experiences with our son Brayden on his journey to being diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Brayden is 5 years old and a gorgeous boy who unless he was having a bad day you wouldn't even know something was different about him! He is the oldest of 3 with a younger brother Lachlan (Lachie) and baby sister Eliza.
He lives with his mum and dad and brother and sister and attends 4 year old kinder 3 days a week!
I frist noticed a difference between Brayden and his friends at mum's group when he was about 18 months old! He would sit on his own and investigate the car he was playing with in a world of his own while his friends (who were all 3 months younger than him) would be saying plane and copter and playing happily with their toys!
I brought up these concerns with our Maternal child health nurse and she said he was just alittle slower at talking than the others and not to worry because he had done everything else at the "normal" times!
The subject of something being different about Brayden wasn't brought up again till he was 3 and a half when we saw a new health nurse and she could see the differences too! And so begins our journey........
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