2 posts tagged “aspergers”

Well readers, the eval from school came back today and we have to have a physician confirm the diagnosis. So far, the eval points to Asperger's Syndrome.  I can't say I am surprised or disappointed.  We knew there was an issue that needed to be addressed. 

Now, on Friday, we take him to Vandy for another Eval;  I don't know if there is anymore hoop jumping we have to go through on this one to get him a confirmed diagnosis.

Still progress is being made; 

In other news, Gracie got into a slight bit of trouble by blurting out an answer for a question that was meant for another student.  She is usually good at turn taking.   She described the experience like this.  "Well, this electric shock hit my brain and I just shouted it out!" 

We should have named her Hermione.

Speaking of which, she is getting into Harry Potter as it happens.  Last I heard, she was on chapter 5. 

Here are some pix from Halloween. 
Here we are.  Josh is a Power Ranger; Gracie is a Stormtrooper(yeah, I was shocked at this choice.  She looks pretty convincing).

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Fightinggale is a cat pretending to be a witch(that's an unusual one) and I am a Vulcan.

Fightinggale's costume reminds me of a comment made about the movie "Highlander"  as found on TV guide.com.  The quote is as follows.

"This may be the only film to give us a Swiss playing a New Yorker who's actually a 16th Century Scot and a Scot playing a Spaniard who's actually an ancient Egyptian."

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Well the meeting was pretty good.
It seemed evident to me that the school was taking Josh's condition seriously and was not intentionally violating his rights.   As it happens, it takes a great deal of time to get placement for Josh, so we have filled out tons of paperwork(Fightinggale did most of that, acutally, I had to run off to the office shortly after the meeting)

We discussed developing new strategies to help us(we all agreed that the old ones weren't working as they are) there was much discussion within the discussion between the Special Needs coordinator, the Speech pathologist and Mrs. D.  It was a bit noisy, but by the same token, I was most gratified that this was happening.  They weren't off topic at all; they were putting their heads together to help Josh.  That was cool!

Mrs. D told me in the meeting that somehow, when Josh was on the pc, it suddenly stopped working, but she said that it would be fixed.  I checked it out after the meeting.  It appears that Josh was on a site that offered some print outs of sorts and he had opened 22 print windows which was probably eating up a lot of system resources.  He always did have some issues when it came to printing.  Just a wee bit overexcited about it. LOL!

The assistant principle said that Gracie(that's Josh's big sister (7 years old) was like a mother hen with Josh.  She likes to help him out, which is fine.  Everyone thinks she so sweet! LOL!

In time, we will figure out how and why Josh is the way he is. 

You know, when I first heard of Autism when I was in college, I said to myself "There's no way I could handle that."  Now that we and the others (including the school psychologist) feel that Josh is an ASD child, I feel a little differently.  I guess to me, he's still Josh.

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