What were the speech pathologist and the psychologist arguing over? Will the results affect the services he receives? If so, outside testing may help.
Hi Inky,
This is a good one. The psychologist thought he might fit into the autism spectrum. The speech pathologist completely disagreed with her. I can understand how this can happen, I went back and forth with it myself. I looked up the characteristics of Aspergers and noticed a couple of the characteristics fit him. Once I was done panicking and coming to terms with my own thoughts, I kept an eye on him(more like a microscope)and determine he doesn't have it. I know I'm not an expert in the field, but my gut feeling is, he does not have it. I removed all emotion and looked at it analytically.
The school wants me to have him evaluated by a professional, to determine if he has it or not. The reason for this is, b/c the 2 women disagreed.
The one thing that bothered me the most. When I asked all 6 people in the room, what would change if he did get the DX of Aspergers?? No one could give me an answer, they just danced around the question,
poorly. Nothing would change.
