Reply to Why is everything now just ASD?

Forum Index » Kids With Special Needs and Disabilities

Reply to "Why is everything now just ASD?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FYI, Ivymount Outreach also has a social skills group just for girls.  [/quote]

Op here. Part of the reason I'm not totally sold on ASD being a possibility for my daughter is her social skills are fine. She doesn't struggle at all there- lots of friends, participates in activities. She misses unspoken things like passive aggression and sarcasm (the pragmatics issue) but other than that, does not struggle at all with social skills or in social situations. [/quote]

Autism at its core is a severe social communication disorder.

Have you considered Social Pragmatic Communication Disorder?[/quote]

Language pragmatics is a social skill. My son its similar. He has deficits in writing, spelling, motor planning, and pragmatics. He is in third grade and I too think he probably would have qualified for PDD-NOS in the past ('some characteristics of autism') but doesn't have enough 'restricted interests' to qualify under the DSM. Haven't done a full-on private eval yet (have been to dev ped, OT, speech - and our charter did a v comprehensive psycho ed exam three years ago, so we're in for another one this fall.

My son is very social, but misses tone, sarcasm, etc. [/quote]

Kids with language delays are more at risk for having language based learning disabilities as well as ADHD.

Kids with motor delays like DCD are more likely to have co-morbid conditions too.  DCD like ADHD can interfere with social skills and executive functioning.

The DSM V categorizes all of these as well as autism under Neurological Developmental Disorders.

Kids with dyslexia, dyscalculia, and/or dysgraphia have Specific Learning Disorder under DSM V.

Kids who continue to have expressive, receptive, or both speech issues past preschool age will have a Communication Disorder under DSM V:
http://www.dsm5.org/documents/changes%20from%20dsm-iv-tr%20to%20dsm-5.pdf
--Language Disorder (What was previously MERLD) or 
-- Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder

The point is, there is an appropriate diagnosis out there for your kid, OP.

Again, IEP designations aren't medical diagnoses nor as nuanced or specific.  Getting help regardless of the label is key.  It's certainly better than the alternative.  Kids didn't go to school, drop out, or were institutionalized.

[/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