evaluation

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i am not very active with this group, my daughter does not have a diagnosis yet.

I have three children ...a 6 1/2 yr old boy, an almost 5 yr old girl and a 3 1/2

yr old boy. My girl has a speech and language delay and SPD. She is tactile

sensitive and auditory sensitive. we believe she has some sort of autism. Last

week she had an evaluation with a pediatric neuro psycholgist...so we will get

results from that in a week and a half. I am very nervous...not that a diagnoses

will change how we act towards her or treat her, it just scares me. I am very

worried about her starting school in the fall with 20 children in her class with

just one teacher. So im hoping to fially get answers we have had many evluatuons

that sad lets retest in a year to see if she grows out of it so it will be great

for some answers

jen

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Jen-

I hope it will help when I say that getting my son's diagnosis has been much

more helpful than it has been difficult because it has answered a lot of

questions. It let me know that I did nothing to contribute to his behavior or

his delays (and that helped because even though I thought I was at least a

pretty good mother I think it is also in my nature to doubt myself). It also

gave me place to start researching and helped me figure out what path to take to

get him the help that he needs. It also gave me paperwork that helped me talk

the school into providing him the additional services he needs. If your daughter

needs extra services that will help her in school, I think that a specific

diagnosis will give you leverage to get those services, which might even include

an aide in the room with her. My son is only four so I haven't gotten that far

yet.

It was hard to breathe in the moment that I got his Asperger's diagnosis, and it

was even hard to breathe for the first couple of weeks after that every time I

thought of him having that diasnosis, but it has gotten easier. And you are

right in a sense when you sayt that it won't change the way you act towards her,

because I love my son just the same, or if it is possible I love him even more

because I see what an amazing person he is because of and in spite of his unique

challenges. However, it did change the way I acted towards him because it helped

me understand the reasons behind his behavior and how I could guide him more

productively.

In short, it was really hard to hear the diagnosis, but I am thankful everyday

that we got a diagnosis and we got it so early on in his life. I really hope

that you get the answer that you are seeking and that it does as much to guide

your way as it did for me.

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> i am not very active with this group, my daughter does not have a diagnosis

yet. I have three children ...a 6 1/2 yr old boy, an almost 5 yr old girl and a

3 1/2 yr old boy. My girl has a speech and language delay and SPD. She is

tactile sensitive and auditory sensitive. we believe she has some sort of

autism. Last week she had an evaluation with a pediatric neuro psycholgist...so

we will get results from that in a week and a half. I am very nervous...not that

a diagnoses will change how we act towards her or treat her, it just scares me.

I am very worried about her starting school in the fall with 20 children in her

class with just one teacher. So im hoping to fially get answers we have had many

evluatuons that sad lets retest in a year to see if she grows out of it so it

will be great for some answers

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> jen

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