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Son Does Not Meet Criteria

Rkilby66

Hi All,

Would just like some advice or listen to others experience of the diagnosis.

We have recently had a letter back stating that our son does not meet the criteria "there is insufficient evidence of an autism spectrum disorder from the information in the school documentation"'

I would be interested how people have challenged these and if this was a common occurence? We are confident that he is on the spectrum and his behaviour at home and out of school are very different, and the way we get through day to day is constant management with him.

I have lots of other details I would like to state as feeling really frustrated that after waiting for a long time to get first assessment to then be given this response.

Any comments will be gratefully received

Parents

  • Agreed, "school documentation" hardly counts - have you been shown this documentation? I think you are entitled to see what they've written in it, and it could be very revealing.

    You might be able to ask for disclosure of the content under Freedom of Information as his parent.

    Schools' understanding of autism is widely varied, and a lot is "Triad of Impairments" based, or very crude.

    For example clinicians are always going on about "gaze aversion" because a child with autism is likely not to look at people when being spoken to (sometimes may direct their ear rather than eyes to the person when asked to pay attention). Many people as they get older, to avoid being told off for "not looking people in the eye" try to emulate it, maybe looking at another part of the face. To an observer there is no sign of lack of eye contact or gaze aversion - doesn't mean to say it is not happening.

    Other observations that might be being made are that he appears to socialise with others - but just to what extent can teachers see that?

    Ask to see the documentation. It is probably less credible than a fisherman's boasts.

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  • Agreed, "school documentation" hardly counts - have you been shown this documentation? I think you are entitled to see what they've written in it, and it could be very revealing.

    You might be able to ask for disclosure of the content under Freedom of Information as his parent.

    Schools' understanding of autism is widely varied, and a lot is "Triad of Impairments" based, or very crude.

    For example clinicians are always going on about "gaze aversion" because a child with autism is likely not to look at people when being spoken to (sometimes may direct their ear rather than eyes to the person when asked to pay attention). Many people as they get older, to avoid being told off for "not looking people in the eye" try to emulate it, maybe looking at another part of the face. To an observer there is no sign of lack of eye contact or gaze aversion - doesn't mean to say it is not happening.

    Other observations that might be being made are that he appears to socialise with others - but just to what extent can teachers see that?

    Ask to see the documentation. It is probably less credible than a fisherman's boasts.

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