Letter from consultant :-)

[TaylorsMummyx]

Got a letter this morning (finally!) repeating everything that was said in the appointment. Some of the things doesn't sound as bad as they are like the needing help dressing when really he can't do any of it. And his words are 15 when really there probs 10. He said dexters eye contact was brief but responded with brief eye contact and a smile. He said he does have plagiocephaly but no clinical evedamce of sutural ridging/cramiosynostosis??

Sumary: dexter is a 2 year old with gdd, his gross motor skills are improving but he still has significant speach and language delay. There was concerns raised by his mum regarding his social interaction skills and she did raise the possibility of autism (I didn't!) I explained to mum that dexters social interaction skills need to be taken I to context of his gdd. I have also told her that we need input from other professionals who would be involved with dexters care to get input regarding dexters social interation and communication difficulties in other setting. In the mean time I have arranged for blood tests including full blood count tyriod function test, creatinine kinase, ferritin, fragile x syndrome chromosomal analysis.

Anyone had anything like this?

 

[Midnight_Fairy]

Hi yes our early day letters were very much like this. I STILL find consultants exaggerate things I said and change things. When we had the official autism assessment (ADOS) me and my mum had a 3 hour chat with the dr about past/present history. You should see some of the stuff they have written down on the print up! I actually complained as they changed loads!

They will do the fragile X test 99% of the time with any suspected autism as that means it can be ruled out x

 

[TaylorsMummyx]

Does it sound like they think he has it? X

 

[Midnight_Fairy]

Sounds like they are interested in keeping him on for observations xx

 

[sun]

We got a similar letter from our initial consultation and we also got the blood tests done to rule out fragile x, etc. The bloods are pretty standard here. We get a summary of every consultant we see, including the speech therapy sessions. Our letter just went through the Global Dev. Delay stuff and outlined a course of action and list of specialists we would be seeing. With us, it took many more assessments before they could start to be more specific about what could be causing the delays.

I know Taylor is going to be seen by speech again in a few months, but is he on the list to be seen by any other specialists? Like OT or Behavioural? Once we had an assessment from a bunch of areas, our dev.ped. was able to give us more info. x

 

[mummaof3]

its gd they have reconised ur concerns and doing the tests and sounds like the are going to find out what it might be x

 

[Midnight_Fairy]

We got a similar letter from our initial consultation and we also got the blood tests done to rule out fragile x, etc. The bloods are pretty standard here. We get a summary of every consultant we see, including the speech therapy sessions. Our letter just went through the Global Dev. Delay stuff and outlined a course of action and list of specialists we would be seeing. With us, it took many more assessments before they could start to be more specific about what could be causing the delays.

I know Taylor is going to be seen by speech again in a few months, but is he on the list to be seen by any other specialists? Like OT or Behavioural? Once we had an assessment from a bunch of areas, our dev.ped. was able to give us more info. x

Yeah blood tests are standard with behavior problems and learning etc. They dont normally seem to take autism seriously until they have ruled everything else out xx