Hi Everyone, 5 year old, autism,aspergers, confused

Hey,

My name is Lisa Smile My 5 year old daughter recently visited the Doctor and the Doctor believes my daughter Skye has Autism, aspergers.  It will be 2 months till the assessment.  It never entered my mind that she may have autism, even though I asked some questions,  I don't think it hit me until I walked out the door. I was in complete shock and confused in what this means. 

My daughter has been visiting Physiotherapy for low muscle tone in her legs and hands. Speech & Language Therapy, her assessment result were that she has problems retaining information, problems with Language. Occupational Therapy, for low muscle tone, spacial awareness, difficulty with zips, she fine motor skill problems.  When occupational Therapy assessed Skye she was at lowest results. 

Skye is a child that is always in her imaginative world. She loves to be super heros but gets upset when she can't do what they superheros can do. She is a complete tomboy, loves cars.

She very active and her energy levels don't drop at night, Doctor gave Melatonin to help her drift of to sleep. 

I'm  new to this and I am not quite sure what to expect,  what's going to happen. 

Thanks and sorry for babbling on so much lol.

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  • Former Member
    Former Member

    Following my comments about diets and additives. There is a really good page at www.researchautism.net/.../our-evaluations-interventions

    This lists various interventions and proper opinions, based on evidence, about whether they work according to proper scientific research. Note that it rates the melatonin intervention that your, son has been prescribed, as having "Strong Positive Evidence"

    The food intolerance interventions do not yet ( and may never! ) get enough evidence to get a high ranking here but some people swear by them. For an introduction go to fedup.com.au/.../introduction-to-food-intolerance-3

    Personally I have found that I definitely have something called Oral Allergy Syndrome. This certainly plays havoc with my digestion and I believe it may affect my Aspergers.

    I hope you find something here that has some effect on your son but, as I have said before, there are no guarantees and we are all different.

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  • Former Member
    Former Member

    Following my comments about diets and additives. There is a really good page at www.researchautism.net/.../our-evaluations-interventions

    This lists various interventions and proper opinions, based on evidence, about whether they work according to proper scientific research. Note that it rates the melatonin intervention that your, son has been prescribed, as having "Strong Positive Evidence"

    The food intolerance interventions do not yet ( and may never! ) get enough evidence to get a high ranking here but some people swear by them. For an introduction go to fedup.com.au/.../introduction-to-food-intolerance-3

    Personally I have found that I definitely have something called Oral Allergy Syndrome. This certainly plays havoc with my digestion and I believe it may affect my Aspergers.

    I hope you find something here that has some effect on your son but, as I have said before, there are no guarantees and we are all different.

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