Originally Posted by
lmh2402
gena, thanks for sharing this. you have no idea how much better it made me feel! when we moved in sept i signed us up for a gym class at the ymca. hoping we could meet some other moms and kids.
however. instead of doing the "gym stuff," that all the other kids were doing. like running and yelling and throwing balls. my son was pushing people off the foam mat b/c they were covering up the letters and numbers.
and while others were jumping on the trampoline, he was reading the letters on the warning sign.
Well, mine still does stuff like that. Once a month the local inflatables place has a "Sensory Bounce Night" for kids with special needs. We go almost every month. DS loves the inflatables, but even they cannot overcome his intense need to read everything. Here he is, having just come off the obstacle course, reading the caution notice on the mat even though he already knows it by heart.
Once he finished, he was back onto the obstacle course, then read the caution notice again, then back on the obstacle course, etc.
Regarding the ADOS test, your EI may or may not be able to do it. In my state, EI personnel do not have the qualifications to conduct the ADOS test. Our Developmental Ped wrote a referal for the child psychologist at Children's Hospital and she did the ADOS on DS.
Gena
DS, age 11 and always amazing
“Autistics are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg." - Paul Collins, Not Even Wrong