Thank you for your replies to Iain and Stuart. In the 1980's there was no knowledge of autism and suddenly all this notices of autism. The trouble is the government can't find the budgets and we hear it all the time on the news. If we were not made aware of autism then we wouldn't have been the wiser. I could possibly be autistic and my daughter's dad and his uncle is autistic. I'm not too bothered now I was really anxious before, but there's nothing I can do. The school my daughter goes to is a Mainstream school. She's finding independence hard but I was told that is apart of autism. I got a book on autism from the library. The schools do nothing and assume she is a typical teenager, they don't recognise anything until a former diagnosis is made. There's only so much I can do. I'm a single mother and running a business.
I believe you need to identify the areas your daughter needs help with, contact the schools Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENCO) and ask for a meeting to discuss it.
Do you know how long the wait is for her diagnosis? If it is years then you can ask your GP for "the right to choose" path which will get a private diagnosis paid by the GP much faster - well so long as you live in England.
If you want to get a better idea of the probability of a diagnosis then there are plenty of free online autism tests that you can do which give a reasonable indication - it helps give confidence in your suspicions and should encourage further research.
I would also make notes of the autistic traits the tests highlight (both for her and you) and you can use these as talking points in the assessment.
For reading up on autism I can recommend the following book with is easy to dip in and out of and does not require you to read it cover to cover like most books on the subject:
Autism For Dummies (2025) - ISBN 9781394301003 (paberback); ISBN 9781394301027 (ebook)
I believe you need to identify the areas your daughter needs help with, contact the schools Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENCO) and ask for a meeting to discuss it.
Do you know how long the wait is for her diagnosis? If it is years then you can ask your GP for "the right to choose" path which will get a private diagnosis paid by the GP much faster - well so long as you live in England.
If you want to get a better idea of the probability of a diagnosis then there are plenty of free online autism tests that you can do which give a reasonable indication - it helps give confidence in your suspicions and should encourage further research.
I would also make notes of the autistic traits the tests highlight (both for her and you) and you can use these as talking points in the assessment.
For reading up on autism I can recommend the following book with is easy to dip in and out of and does not require you to read it cover to cover like most books on the subject:
Autism For Dummies (2025) - ISBN 9781394301003 (paberback); ISBN 9781394301027 (ebook)
