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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would do ADOS/ADI-R which only tests for ASD and is the gold standard.  4 is too young for a Neuropsych eval.
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My son had zero issues until he entered prek [/b]and his teacher pointed out that there maybe issues.  DS was diagnosed with ASD/Asperger's at 4 and got an IEP.

He is doing great in 3rd grade at a language immersion school.  Has lots of friends and loves school.

If it turns out that your son has ASD, better to find out now and get him help rather than later.[/quote]
How is this possible? Did he have typical social and play skills with siblings, peers until 4?[/quote]

It makes no sense that child had no issues prior to prek.  Or, they missed all signs.[/quote]

Parallel play is considered normal until around 4 when DS started preschool and my DS did not have speech delays and was in fact an early talker.  He is an only child but got along well with his older cousins and adults.  His social issues is all with his same aged peers.  He did not walk until 16 months old but our ped told us that is still in the normal range.

The avg age for an Asperger's/ASD diagnosis is 8 yrs old so "missing the signs" prior to a child starting school is not unusual.[/quote]

Pp, I know you are a frequent poster, and I am so glad your son is doing well. But your descriptions of your son always confuse everyone and your explaining how extremely well he is doing and advanced and brilliant and social honestly, I think, make all the other parents of special needs kids feel like crap. Your kid sounds very smart and a little quirky. Exercise some of those empathy skills he's learning in social skills to realize that this is not even close to most parents experience and stop bragging. It feels a little braggy. I know your son was diagnosed and I'm not questioning your services but it sucks to be asking s question about a kid with severe needs and have you pop in and be like - well my son with no issues who is amazingly smart and social happens to have Asd ADHD didn't get seen until later because it's so mild and has an amazing iep. Just like, we get it, you're amazing. Stop. But that's just me. [/quote]

My son got an IEP and services and supports to help him along since he was 4 yrs old.  I am incredibly grateful for early intervention and the incredible people, doctors, school administrators and teachers, who got my son the help he needs.  Early intervention has made an incredible difference for my DS with ASD/ADHD.  I am sorry that you feel I am bragging when our experience has been that having great help and support leads to great results.
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I’m also asking you to please have some empathy when you consider what and why you are posting. I find your posts are unreliable, quite misleading, and your use terms incorrect. You say your DS benefitted from early intervention, but he started services after 4, so that’s not EI! In the SN world, services before 3 are considered EI.

It’s very misleading to say your son had 0 issues before preK.  All kids with ASD/ Asperger’s have visible traits/ red flags way before that age and all struggle with pragmatic speech, even if they have large vocabularies. Not evolving play skills past parallel play at 4 is also not normal. I see playgroups for 2 year olds frequently, and all typical toddlers at that age already engage in associative play with peers.

You said on different threads that there are Aspies and ppl on the broader autism phenotype in your family – perhaps that explains why you didn’t notice signs in your son, since for your family such traits are common. But your son couldn’t have been diagnosed with AS because of not playing with peers/ social issues alone; that would only meet criteria for social (pragmatic) communication disorder. 
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A few thoughts. This poster also frustrates me, possibly because I am projecting.  I have a quirky DS (whose male relatives do things like stim and fixate on subjects, but are brilliant and successful) and my fear is having him tagged as autistic just because he is different.  On the other hand, the "narrative" of Aspergers is frequently that it is not diagnosed until 8 or 9 when the social functioning deficits become apparent, and that they do not have red flags necessarily at a younger age.  So maybe this poster just got lucky and got her kid identified very early based on more subtle signs.  Also, I don't think anyone is really diagnosing "social communication disorder" because it is so new (and anyway would not have been in the DSM when this PP's son was diagnosed.)

I think what really frustrates about this poster is the mismatch between the seemingly extravagant services in the IEP, and the repeated statements that her son has no problems.  Who knows, maybe she is a massive success story, but I can see how it would be difficult to swallow if you are a parent of a kid with more severe problems treated much more poorly.  [/quote]

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