I'm hoping that this post will help some of you with newly diagnosed children, or children who have quite moderate to severe autism at toddler age can look positively to the future, although that's not easy. At 2-3 my son could say about 10 words, wasn't potty trained, happy doing his own thing, ended up escaping out windows or doors if not locked, or escaping from his car seat despite the two finger rule and like most autistic children having melt downs if things didn't go his way. Now at 7 he's got this glowing report.
Yesterday I did my sons statement review with his teacher and he's doing better than what I expected. He had such a glowing report, I couldn't be more proud of him. He's improved his understanding in all subjects at school, although he's still working below the national curriculum level, but his teacher thinks we should be there by the end of the academic year, if not before.
He's starting to make friends in his class and he's choosing to do so, rather than his old school who more or less forced friends on him. This did take half a term but its an achievement he's doing it on his own.
He is on the top set in his class for English, which was the most surprising for me as he never seemed to have that much English I thought. So he's on a table with the more high functioning/aspergers boys with good language. He apparently tries hard to catch up with them when he wants to do work.
Although he still is very silly! After music he has P.E. so he walked back to class with his trousers round his ankles as he knew it was P.E. and he would have to get undressed. (The school encourages him to undress and dress himself and help him when he needs it, unlike his old school who did it for him) He hasn't quite got the concept that he needed to keep them on until he got back to class. But I guess if your in a school with 95% of children somewhere on the spectrum it doesn't matter that much.
The best quote from his teacher was this though. Although Ossian has classic signs of autism with his hand flapping, clapping etc, he's different as he has a much higher level understand than what we expect with someone doing those things. I'm chuffed to pieces and there was no negative feed back from the school. He's going to get a treat his weekend since he's been so good
Yesterday I did my sons statement review with his teacher and he's doing better than what I expected. He had such a glowing report, I couldn't be more proud of him. He's improved his understanding in all subjects at school, although he's still working below the national curriculum level, but his teacher thinks we should be there by the end of the academic year, if not before.
He's starting to make friends in his class and he's choosing to do so, rather than his old school who more or less forced friends on him. This did take half a term but its an achievement he's doing it on his own.
He is on the top set in his class for English, which was the most surprising for me as he never seemed to have that much English I thought. So he's on a table with the more high functioning/aspergers boys with good language. He apparently tries hard to catch up with them when he wants to do work.
Although he still is very silly! After music he has P.E. so he walked back to class with his trousers round his ankles as he knew it was P.E. and he would have to get undressed. (The school encourages him to undress and dress himself and help him when he needs it, unlike his old school who did it for him) He hasn't quite got the concept that he needed to keep them on until he got back to class. But I guess if your in a school with 95% of children somewhere on the spectrum it doesn't matter that much.
The best quote from his teacher was this though. Although Ossian has classic signs of autism with his hand flapping, clapping etc, he's different as he has a much higher level understand than what we expect with someone doing those things. I'm chuffed to pieces and there was no negative feed back from the school. He's going to get a treat his weekend since he's been so good
