Hi! I am new to here

Hi Misskittykat (love the user name!)

I have suspected this for a while but when I first approached school 3 years ago, the Paedatrician was there, the senco was fairly new to the school and the Level 4 TA said she had worked with dozens of children on the spectrum and my son wasnt on the sprectrum so I came away feel very much unsupported etc.

I knew something wasnt right, I am a TA myself... My son has seen his consultant paedadrician since birth, due to health problems etc, so she knew him, and for a while put his behaviour etc down to him being developmentally immature, more recently (feb) she has agreed to look into diagnosis as she has seen him, regularly. She intially was going to diagnosis ADD and DCD, we agreed school and her need to meet again, which was arranged for last week.  I have been having regular meetings for about a year now. School have never committed themselves until an incident with a teacher where he was "manhandled" (But thats another story), and I mentioned what the CP had said about ADD DCD and she pretty much said, they were the least of his problems and in her opinion he was on the spectrum (No sh#t sherlock!!)

Well at the meeting the class teacher (was pushing for PDA) the senco and the home/school support worker were all brilliant, providing oodles of evidence and examples to support a, ASD diagnosis. 

We discussed the triad of impairment and it was overwhelmingly obvious, without even any home input that he has ASD. We all agreed to her proposal of an immediate diagnosis, and that was that!

CP said she would put it all in writing. But my next question is what happens now? 

Will he get any additional support? Should he have an IEP therefore be on school action? He is terribly difficult to keep on task, he demands a lot of adult attention and has major meltdowns, resulting in a big temper.

Thanks x

Hi Misskittykat (love the user name!)

I have suspected this for a while but when I first approached school 3 years ago, the Paedatrician was there, the senco was fairly new to the school and the Level 4 TA said she had worked with dozens of children on the spectrum and my son wasnt on the sprectrum so I came away feel very much unsupported etc.

I knew something wasnt right, I am a TA myself... My son has seen his consultant paedadrician since birth, due to health problems etc, so she knew him, and for a while put his behaviour etc down to him being developmentally immature, more recently (feb) she has agreed to look into diagnosis as she has seen him, regularly. She intially was going to diagnosis ADD and DCD, we agreed school and her need to meet again, which was arranged for last week.  I have been having regular meetings for about a year now. School have never committed themselves until an incident with a teacher where he was "manhandled" (But thats another story), and I mentioned what the CP had said about ADD DCD and she pretty much said, they were the least of his problems and in her opinion he was on the spectrum (No sh#t sherlock!!)

Well at the meeting the class teacher (was pushing for PDA) the senco and the home/school support worker were all brilliant, providing oodles of evidence and examples to support a, ASD diagnosis. 

We discussed the triad of impairment and it was overwhelmingly obvious, without even any home input that he has ASD. We all agreed to her proposal of an immediate diagnosis, and that was that!

CP said she would put it all in writing. But my next question is what happens now? 

Will he get any additional support? Should he have an IEP therefore be on school action? He is terribly difficult to keep on task, he demands a lot of adult attention and has major meltdowns, resulting in a big temper.

Thanks x