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

LisaMB88

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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  • Hi ccollier, 

    I have always know that Skye from a young age was not at her age level. Skye was always behind in development, from learning to walk, talk etc she was always taking longer than other children her age. But when mentioned to Doctors , they would say she will catch up but now she is 5 years old and still having problems. 

    Even when Skye started walking , I knew that she was not walking correctly her right foot would turn in but when mentioned to health visitor she said there was nothing wrong. Only when she went to school they noticed what I have been seeing all along.

    She has low muscle tone in her legs, which we thought was causing her to fall alot but her muscles are a bit stronger and yet still falling over.

    I worry about school, if they are going to make the effort to help her. I don't know what they are doing in school at the moment as communication from them lacks. I worry about her not being able to retain information, she isn't able to process language properly. Speech and language have decided to test her to  see if she has the same problem with numbers.

    She recently has started to hit herself when I take her out. When I tell her no she isn't getting something she will hit her face. But it never last for long. She lacks concentration,  can't stay focused.

    I worry what this means for school. Her new teacher and deputy head teacher said it didn't strike them as Skye having autism. That she wasn't what they would expect a child with autism, aspergers to be like.  

    I'm sure the Doctor wouldn't say she believes she has it if she wasn't sure on it. 

    2 months waiting time till Skye starts to be assessed and I am looking foward to it.

    I stay in Glasgow :)

    I think I will look into going to sone of these groups ad I believe it will be beneficial :)

    Thankyou for replying x

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  • Hi ccollier, 

    I have always know that Skye from a young age was not at her age level. Skye was always behind in development, from learning to walk, talk etc she was always taking longer than other children her age. But when mentioned to Doctors , they would say she will catch up but now she is 5 years old and still having problems. 

    Even when Skye started walking , I knew that she was not walking correctly her right foot would turn in but when mentioned to health visitor she said there was nothing wrong. Only when she went to school they noticed what I have been seeing all along.

    She has low muscle tone in her legs, which we thought was causing her to fall alot but her muscles are a bit stronger and yet still falling over.

    I worry about school, if they are going to make the effort to help her. I don't know what they are doing in school at the moment as communication from them lacks. I worry about her not being able to retain information, she isn't able to process language properly. Speech and language have decided to test her to  see if she has the same problem with numbers.

    She recently has started to hit herself when I take her out. When I tell her no she isn't getting something she will hit her face. But it never last for long. She lacks concentration,  can't stay focused.

    I worry what this means for school. Her new teacher and deputy head teacher said it didn't strike them as Skye having autism. That she wasn't what they would expect a child with autism, aspergers to be like.  

    I'm sure the Doctor wouldn't say she believes she has it if she wasn't sure on it. 

    2 months waiting time till Skye starts to be assessed and I am looking foward to it.

    I stay in Glasgow :)

    I think I will look into going to sone of these groups ad I believe it will be beneficial :)

    Thankyou for replying x

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