Little Intro

July 15, 2008

Hello everyone! I thought I'd take a few moments finally to post a

little intro. I've been slow at getting to this as I joined right

towards the end of my husbands R & R home and even after he got on the

plane to go back to Iraq our days were very crazy there after and are

just winding down a bit more to normal!

I'm Laci and I'm 25yrs old and a stay at home mom. My husband

is 25 and is in the Army. We are currently stationed out of Fort

Hood, TX but I am staying in Lawton, OK with family during deployment

to take care of a few things. We have a 5yr old son named Aidan who

is about to go into his 2nd year of school in kindergarten. I can't

believe how fastly that has approached! Both of my boys are from a

previous marriage and my older one had a bit of anger issues for

awhile and had to be in counceling but part of his issues came from

him being so smart and testing out to be 2yrs ahead of himself! Now

if only he can apply that where needed! haha

My 2nd child Keagan is 3yrs old and is the one on the spectrum. It

was first brought up to me by my ex's side that he was not talking,

very with drawn, something was not right. I was determined it was

because he was no where near comfortable with him and did not know

his biological father till a year old. Finally at the age of 2yrs he

had said 5 words and showed no facial expressions what so ever and I

was very concerned. I asked the dr about it. Explained he was very

with drawn, didn't speak, acted weird and was late on developing in

some areas. She said stated he seemed fine and just getting a late

start but encouraged me to have him checked out further later on if I

felt the need. I moved back here last November and by this time he

was talking quit a bit but you couldn't understand a thing he was

saying. I found out I could have him evaluated from the state for

free on speech and get services. I took him in and found out he was

60% speech delayed and about 6 months developementally delayed. She

referred me to the school system to get him speech services through

the school being that it was almost his 3rd birthday. The school

services then told me that he did not have a speech delay and denied

me services. After speaking to my best friend who is a special

education teacher and telling her everything that I was concerned

about with him from his speech delay, mild developement delays,

chewing his finger nails off, picking his nose contanstly to the

point he always has a huge scar around it, not making a lot of eye

contact, never wanting to be touched, pointing at things and grunting

for what he wants, not social at all.. he will hide under objects

when we are out and grunt at children and run when they talk to them.

He has never played with another child. Chewing on his clothes,

freakign out if the tv is more then a whisper loud and yelling it was

to loud or that the tub is to hot when the other two kids are in it

and playing happily, and much much more... she suggested that he

might have PDD and I looked up the symptoms and sure enough he fit

everything it said.

I then faught with the school system to put him into speech and that

my pediatrician gave a recomendation for him to have speech services

and demanded them to do more developemental testing and that I

believed he was autistic and they ignored my concern on that and told

me it was middle child syndrome and that I was comparing him to my

other children. But after the 3rd articulation test finally put him

into half an hour of speech once a week and wrote up an IEP based on

that and the few concerns I had. I had my pediatrician put in a

referral for a developemental specialist and we waited 4 months to be

seen. Once we were into the her she saw him for 5 hours and said that

he is high functioning autism and that he has traits that suggest PDD

vs High Functioning Autism vs Aspervers. We are going through more

testing with her to get a better plan of action but for now she has

recommended a few sensory books to us to work with him on things,

told us to start doing a picture activity schedule for every day,

stated he needed to be given 2 hours of speech a week and taht he

would benifit from being in special education services in school on

her plan of action. I turned all this into special services this

morning to get a head start to hopefully get him enrolled in a

special education class for early prek (as he would not go till next

year but would this year if qualified for (special services) and

hopefully the fight is not like it was to get him in for speech and

that this time I have enough on me the first time around to get the

job done and them see my side of things. I mean their input is coming

from them seeing my child 3 times for a course of 30 minutes! There

is absolutely no way they could even make a judgement on it! I have

ran a playgroup since my oldest son was 10 months old so my middle

sone has been around other children at least twice a week for

playgroup and once a week for a local storytime and other things so

his social problems was definatly not from me keeping him cooped up

at home! There is so much more I can't even think of off the top of

my head right now.

She also has us on a Gluten Free/Casien Free diet. Is anyone else

doing this? Tried it? What was/is your input on it? Down falls,

things you liked, how you dealt with the transition? I got a few cook

books and went ot the health food store and got some foods for him as

well as bought a bread machine from the thrift shop.

So with that being said, my boys have kept me very busy the last few

months and then I have a 20 month old daughter named Brooklyn who is

just a handful herself because well she's the only girl so why

wouldn't she be right? haha

I'm sure I left a ton of things out but that is the basics of who we

are and what we are going throgh right now! I'm really hoping to gain

a lot of advice through this support group and make sure I'm getting

my son in the right direction to makign sure that he starts in the

school system when he should and where he should to get his needs met

the best there and at home as well.

Look forward to chatting with you all!

July 16, 2008

I have been going through similiar problems with my 3 year old son

with PDD NOS. I have had to fight to get him ST and have done the

due process to get him a special ed class. Summer is here so we are

waiting til fall to see what will happen. Everyone thinks he is fine

except for the MD who diagnosed him. The ST said he has great

communication skills. He talks ok to adults but doesn't talk to

kids. That is why I want a special ed class. I also was denied OT

even though he has low tone and delayed fine motor. His delays we

not by more than a year so he does not need services according to

them. He is not potty trained and is delayed in all self help skills

but selfcare is not covered under OT in school. Only special ed

covers that!

My 6 year old daughter also is on the spectrum. When she was 3 I

knew she had a speech delay but had no idea she was on the spectrum.

I just thought she was very difficult and would grow out of it. She

had a lot of sensory issues and lack of awareness of others. The IEP

team recommended special ed and OT. I actually fought it not wanting

my daughter in a class with children with worse behavior than her.

At 4 she was given a placement under autism. I did not believe it

for awhile but did a lot of research. I removed gluten and casein

when she was almost 4 1/2. She made huge progress after removing

casein and some improvement when gluten was removed. She was

extremely hyperactive before I removed high fructose corn syrup and

artificial colors. After a few months she started talking in full

sentences and stopped all delayed echolalia. She made eye contact

and her sensory issues decreased. A lot of obsessive behavior

decreased and she started to make friends. My husband was not sure

that the changes were due to food so we did many challenges to the

diet to see. She was on the diet for 1 year, with enzymes for the

last 6 months. At first she did fine with a regular diet with

enzymes but slowly she started to regress. I did not want to see it

and my husband saw no change, so we continued. In her 1st grade

private school class she started to get sent to the director's room.

She was throwing herself into the floor almost with the teacher on

top of her. She started to talk very nasty and refused to pay

attention in class. She was hyper again and could not sit in her

seat to eat or do homework. She fell out of her chair and distracted

the other children. She withdrew from her friends and played by

herself. I decided to remove all casein and she made progress. But

she was not the same. On her 6th birthday I removed gluten too. She

made more progress and the hyperactivity disappeared. But it is like

we are starting over because whatever gluten was not broken down by

the enzymes stays in the body for about 1 year.

I tried the enzymes on my son but there was no effect. It will not

work for all children but can be a treatment for some. Others here

have pointed out in the past that some parents focus only on diet and

do not focus on other treatments that are necessary. I view it that

for the children that respond, the diet can allow them to focus and

learn to adapt.

I have a lot of food items that my daughter loves. Email me if you

want to talk.

>

> Hello everyone! I thought I'd take a few moments finally to post a

> little intro. I've been slow at getting to this as I joined right

> towards the end of my husbands R & R home and even after he got on

the

> plane to go back to Iraq our days were very crazy there after and

are

> just winding down a bit more to normal!

>

> I'm Laci and I'm 25yrs old and a stay at home mom. My husband

> is 25 and is in the Army. We are currently stationed out of Fort

> Hood, TX but I am staying in Lawton, OK with family during

deployment

> to take care of a few things. We have a 5yr old son named Aidan who

> is about to go into his 2nd year of school in kindergarten. I can't

> believe how fastly that has approached! Both of my boys are from a

> previous marriage and my older one had a bit of anger issues for

> awhile and had to be in counceling but part of his issues came from

> him being so smart and testing out to be 2yrs ahead of himself! Now

> if only he can apply that where needed! haha

> My 2nd child Keagan is 3yrs old and is the one on the spectrum. It

> was first brought up to me by my ex's side that he was not talking,

> very with drawn, something was not right. I was determined it was

> because he was no where near comfortable with him and did not know

> his biological father till a year old. Finally at the age of 2yrs

he

> had said 5 words and showed no facial expressions what so ever and

I

> was very concerned. I asked the dr about it. Explained he was very

> with drawn, didn't speak, acted weird and was late on developing in

> some areas. She said stated he seemed fine and just getting a late

> start but encouraged me to have him checked out further later on if

I

> felt the need. I moved back here last November and by this time he

> was talking quit a bit but you couldn't understand a thing he was

> saying. I found out I could have him evaluated from the state for

> free on speech and get services. I took him in and found out he was

> 60% speech delayed and about 6 months developementally delayed. She

> referred me to the school system to get him speech services through

> the school being that it was almost his 3rd birthday. The school

> services then told me that he did not have a speech delay and

denied

> me services. After speaking to my best friend who is a special

> education teacher and telling her everything that I was concerned

> about with him from his speech delay, mild developement delays,

> chewing his finger nails off, picking his nose contanstly to the

> point he always has a huge scar around it, not making a lot of eye

> contact, never wanting to be touched, pointing at things and

grunting

> for what he wants, not social at all.. he will hide under objects

> when we are out and grunt at children and run when they talk to

them.

> He has never played with another child. Chewing on his clothes,

> freakign out if the tv is more then a whisper loud and yelling it

was

> to loud or that the tub is to hot when the other two kids are in it

> and playing happily, and much much more... she suggested that he

> might have PDD and I looked up the symptoms and sure enough he fit

> everything it said.

> I then faught with the school system to put him into speech and

that

> my pediatrician gave a recomendation for him to have speech

services

> and demanded them to do more developemental testing and that I

> believed he was autistic and they ignored my concern on that and

told

> me it was middle child syndrome and that I was comparing him to my

> other children. But after the 3rd articulation test finally put him

> into half an hour of speech once a week and wrote up an IEP based

on

> that and the few concerns I had. I had my pediatrician put in a

> referral for a developemental specialist and we waited 4 months to

be

> seen. Once we were into the her she saw him for 5 hours and said

that

> he is high functioning autism and that he has traits that suggest

PDD

> vs High Functioning Autism vs Aspervers. We are going through more

> testing with her to get a better plan of action but for now she has

> recommended a few sensory books to us to work with him on things,

> told us to start doing a picture activity schedule for every day,

> stated he needed to be given 2 hours of speech a week and taht he

> would benifit from being in special education services in school on

> her plan of action. I turned all this into special services this

> morning to get a head start to hopefully get him enrolled in a

> special education class for early prek (as he would not go till

> hopefully the fight is not like it was to get him in for speech and

> that this time I have enough on me the first time around to get the

> job done and them see my side of things. I mean their input is

coming

> from them seeing my child 3 times for a course of 30 minutes! There

> is absolutely no way they could even make a judgement on it! I have

> ran a playgroup since my oldest son was 10 months old so my middle

> sone has been around other children at least twice a week for

> playgroup and once a week for a local storytime and other things so

> his social problems was definatly not from me keeping him cooped up

> at home! There is so much more I can't even think of off the top of

> my head right now.

>

> She also has us on a Gluten Free/Casien Free diet. Is anyone else

> doing this? Tried it? What was/is your input on it? Down falls,

> things you liked, how you dealt with the transition? I got a few

cook

> books and went ot the health food store and got some foods for him

as

> well as bought a bread machine from the thrift shop.

>

> So with that being said, my boys have kept me very busy the last

few

> months and then I have a 20 month old daughter named Brooklyn who

is

> just a handful herself because well she's the only girl so why

> wouldn't she be right? haha

>

> I'm sure I left a ton of things out but that is the basics of who

we

> are and what we are going throgh right now! I'm really hoping to

gain

> a lot of advice through this support group and make sure I'm

getting

> my son in the right direction to makign sure that he starts in the

> school system when he should and where he should to get his needs

met

> the best there and at home as well.

>

> Look forward to chatting with you all!

>

July 24, 2008

Welcome to the group!!! I just wanted you to know that

there is a wonderful group for the GFCF diet, which I am also a part of.

It is a great group with tons of information and tips. Good luck.

August 8, 2008

Hello Laci!! Welcome to our group! It must be hard to have your dh over in Iraq and deal with things at home by yourself. Is the school cooperating this time? I hope so! Feel free to join in here whenever you like!

RoxannaYou're UniqueJust like everyone else...

( ) Little Intro

Hello everyone! I thought I'd take a few moments finally to post a little intro. I've been slow at getting to this as I joined right towards the end of my husbands R & R home and even after he got on the plane to go back to Iraq our days were very crazy there after and are just winding down a bit more to normal!I'm Laci and I'm 25yrs old and a stay at home mom. My husband is 25 and is in the Army. We are currently stationed out of Fort Hood, TX but I am staying in Lawton, OK with family during deployment to take care of a few things. We have a 5yr old son named Aidan who is about to go into his 2nd year of school in kindergarten. I can't believe how fastly that has approached! Both of my boys are from a previous marriage and my older one had a bit of anger issues for awhile and had to be in counceling but part of his issues came from him being so smart and testing out to be 2yrs ahead of himself! Now if only he can apply that where needed! haha My 2nd child Keagan is 3yrs old and is the one on the spectrum. It was first brought up to me by my ex's side that he was not talking, very with drawn, something was not right. I was determined it was because he was no where near comfortable with him and did not know his biological father till a year old. Finally at the age of 2yrs he had said 5 words and showed no facial expressions what so ever and I was very concerned. I asked the dr about it. Explained he was very with drawn, didn't speak, acted weird and was late on developing in some areas. She said stated he seemed fine and just getting a late start but encouraged me to have him checked out further later on if I felt the need. I moved back here last November and by this time he was talking quit a bit but you couldn't understand a thing he was saying. I found out I could have him evaluated from the state for free on speech and get services. I took him in and found out he was 60% speech delayed and about 6 months developementally delayed. She referred me to the school system to get him speech services through the school being that it was almost his 3rd birthday. The school services then told me that he did not have a speech delay and denied me services. After speaking to my best friend who is a special education teacher and telling her everything that I was concerned about with him from his speech delay, mild developement delays, chewing his finger nails off, picking his nose contanstly to the point he always has a huge scar around it, not making a lot of eye contact, never wanting to be touched, pointing at things and grunting for what he wants, not social at all.. he will hide under objects when we are out and grunt at children and run when they talk to them. He has never played with another child. Chewing on his clothes, freakign out if the tv is more then a whisper loud and yelling it was to loud or that the tub is to hot when the other two kids are in it and playing happily, and much much more... she suggested that he might have PDD and I looked up the symptoms and sure enough he fit everything it said. I then faught with the school system to put him into speech and that my pediatrician gave a recomendation for him to have speech services and demanded them to do more developemental testing and that I believed he was autistic and they ignored my concern on that and told me it was middle child syndrome and that I was comparing him to my other children. But after the 3rd articulation test finally put him into half an hour of speech once a week and wrote up an IEP based on that and the few concerns I had. I had my pediatrician put in a referral for a developemental specialist and we waited 4 months to be seen. Once we were into the her she saw him for 5 hours and said that he is high functioning autism and that he has traits that suggest PDD vs High Functioning Autism vs Aspervers. We are going through more testing with her to get a better plan of action but for now she has recommended a few sensory books to us to work with him on things, told us to start doing a picture activity schedule for every day, stated he needed to be given 2 hours of speech a week and taht he would benifit from being in special education services in school on her plan of action. I turned all this into special services this morning to get a head start to hopefully get him enrolled in a special education class for early prek (as he would not go till next year but would this year if qualified for (special services) and hopefully the fight is not like it was to get him in for speech and that this time I have enough on me the first time around to get the job done and them see my side of things. I mean their input is coming from them seeing my child 3 times for a course of 30 minutes! There is absolutely no way they could even make a judgement on it! I have ran a playgroup since my oldest son was 10 months old so my middle sone has been around other children at least twice a week for playgroup and once a week for a local storytime and other things so his social problems was definatly not from me keeping him cooped up at home! There is so much more I can't even think of off the top of my head right now. She also has us on a Gluten Free/Casien Free diet. Is anyone else doing this? Tried it? What was/is your input on it? Down falls, things you liked, how you dealt with the transition? I got a few cook books and went ot the health food store and got some foods for him as well as bought a bread machine from the thrift shop. So with that being said, my boys have kept me very busy the last few months and then I have a 20 month old daughter named Brooklyn who is just a handful herself because well she's the only girl so why wouldn't she be right? haha I'm sure I left a ton of things out but that is the basics of who we are and what we are going throgh right now! I'm really hoping to gain a lot of advice through this support group and make sure I'm getting my son in the right direction to makign sure that he starts in the school system when he should and where he should to get his needs met the best there and at home as well. Look forward to chatting with you all!No virus found in this incoming message.

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August 8, 2008

Hi, Laci.

I'm Robin. My hubby got back from Iraq last July. How are the kiddo's taking dad being gone?

This is a great group.

Welcome!!!!

From: Roxanna <madideas@...>Subject: Re: ( ) Little Intro Date: Friday, August 8, 2008, 2:35 PM

Hello Laci!! Welcome to our group! It must be hard to have your dh over in Iraq and deal with things at home by yourself. Is the school cooperating this time? I hope so! Feel free to join in here whenever you like!

RoxannaYou're UniqueJust like everyone else...

( ) Little Intro

Hello everyone! I thought I'd take a few moments finally to post a little intro. I've been slow at getting to this as I joined right towards the end of my husbands R & R home and even after he got on the plane to go back to Iraq our days were very crazy there after and are just winding down a bit more to normal!I'm Laci and I'm 25yrs old and a stay at home mom. My husband is 25 and is in the Army. We are currently stationed out of Fort Hood, TX but I am staying in Lawton, OK with family during deployment to take care of a few things. We have a 5yr old son named Aidan who is about to go into his 2nd year of school in kindergarten. I can't believe how fastly that has approached! Both of my boys are from a previous marriage and my older one had a bit of anger issues for awhile and had to be in counceling but part of his issues came from him being so smart and testing out to be 2yrs ahead

of himself! Now if only he can apply that where needed! haha My 2nd child Keagan is 3yrs old and is the one on the spectrum. It was first brought up to me by my ex's side that he was not talking, very with drawn, something was not right. I was determined it was because he was no where near comfortable with him and did not know his biological father till a year old. Finally at the age of 2yrs he had said 5 words and showed no facial expressions what so ever and I was very concerned. I asked the dr about it. Explained he was very with drawn, didn't speak, acted weird and was late on developing in some areas. She said stated he seemed fine and just getting a late start but encouraged me to have him checked out further later on if I felt the need. I moved back here last November and by this time he was talking quit a bit but you couldn't understand a thing he was saying. I found out I could have him

evaluated from the state for free on speech and get services. I took him in and found out he was 60% speech delayed and about 6 months developementally delayed. She referred me to the school system to get him speech services through the school being that it was almost his 3rd birthday. The school services then told me that he did not have a speech delay and denied me services. After speaking to my best friend who is a special education teacher and telling her everything that I was concerned about with him from his speech delay, mild developement delays, chewing his finger nails off, picking his nose contanstly to the point he always has a huge scar around it, not making a lot of eye contact, never wanting to be touched, pointing at things and grunting for what he wants, not social at all.. he will hide under objects when we are out and grunt at children and run when they talk to them. He has never

played with another child. Chewing on his clothes, freakign out if the tv is more then a whisper loud and yelling it was to loud or that the tub is to hot when the other two kids are in it and playing happily, and much much more... she suggested that he might have PDD and I looked up the symptoms and sure enough he fit everything it said. I then faught with the school system to put him into speech and that my pediatrician gave a recomendation for him to have speech services and demanded them to do more developemental testing and that I believed he was autistic and they ignored my concern on that and told me it was middle child syndrome and that I was comparing him to my other children. But after the 3rd articulation test finally put him into half an hour of speech once a week and wrote up an IEP based on that and the few concerns I had. I had my pediatrician put in a referral for a developemental

specialist and we waited 4 months to be seen. Once we were into the her she saw him for 5 hours and said that he is high functioning autism and that he has traits that suggest PDD vs High Functioning Autism vs Aspervers. We are going through more testing with her to get a better plan of action but for now she has recommended a few sensory books to us to work with him on things, told us to start doing a picture activity schedule for every day, stated he needed to be given 2 hours of speech a week and taht he would benifit from being in special education services in school on her plan of action. I turned all this into special services this morning to get a head start to hopefully get him enrolled in a special education class for early prek (as he would not go till next year but would this year if qualified for (special services) and hopefully the fight is not like it was to get him in for speech and

that this time I have enough on me the first time around to get the job done and them see my side of things. I mean their input is coming from them seeing my child 3 times for a course of 30 minutes! There is absolutely no way they could even make a judgement on it! I have ran a playgroup since my oldest son was 10 months old so my middle sone has been around other children at least twice a week for playgroup and once a week for a local storytime and other things so his social problems was definatly not from me keeping him cooped up at home! There is so much more I can't even think of off the top of my head right now. She also has us on a Gluten Free/Casien Free diet. Is anyone else doing this? Tried it? What was/is your input on it? Down falls, things you liked, how you dealt with the transition? I got a few cook books and went ot the health food store and got some foods for him as well as

bought a bread machine from the thrift shop. So with that being said, my boys have kept me very busy the last few months and then I have a 20 month old daughter named Brooklyn who is just a handful herself because well she's the only girl so why wouldn't she be right? haha I'm sure I left a ton of things out but that is the basics of who we are and what we are going throgh right now! I'm really hoping to gain a lot of advice through this support group and make sure I'm getting my son in the right direction to makign sure that he starts in the school system when he should and where he should to get his needs met the best there and at home as well. Look forward to chatting with you all!No virus found in this incoming message.

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August 9, 2008

Hi Laci,

I just wanted to say hi and welcome along with sharing with you that my 2nd oldest son is in Fort Sill now and will be graduating 9/5 from basic training. Sometimes it seems like a really small world!!

Sue

From: Roxanna <madideas@zoomintern et.net>Subject: Re: ( ) Little Intro Date: Friday, August 8, 2008, 2:35 PM