Toggle navigation
Toggle navigation
Home
DCUM Forums
Nanny Forums
Events
About DCUM
Advertising
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
FAQs and Guidelines
Privacy Policy
Your current identity is: Anonymous
Login
Preview
Subject:
Forum Index
»
Kids With Special Needs and Disabilities
Reply to "Just diagnosed ASD / ADHD : how/when to tell daughter"
Subject:
Emoticons
More smilies
Text Color:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Violet
White
Black
Font:
Very Small
Small
Normal
Big
Giant
Close Marks
[quote=Anonymous][quote]I don't think ASD is quite like other disorders or a medical diagnosis, in the sense that the range of kids included is so broad and we haven't seen kids dx'd under the current criteria grow up, so we don't really know what adulthood looks like for them as ASD-identified people.[/quote] Are you talking about the criteria that has now grouped Aspergers/HFA with the other ASD? ASD has been around for a very long time and there are a very large number of adults that have acknowledged they have ASD (Temple Grandin, Dan Akyroyd, James Durbin, Darryl Hannah, Tim Burton, etc.) And, ASD is not the only 'spectrum' disorder. There are a large number of other disorders, including CP and ADHD, that you can't really predict what a child with them will 'look like' in adulthood. We do know they explain, but not excuse, may of the challenges our kids have. [/quote]
Options
Disable HTML in this message
Disable BB Code in this message
Disable smilies in this message
Review message
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
