How do I start to hel my Asperger daughter?

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Hi everyone,

I am trying to navigate the journey of helping my daughter who I think may have

Asperger's, she is almost 6 years old. A few questions:

1. Do I get her eval'd by a neuropsychologist, or a pediatric neurologist?

2. How do I get the school to give her services?

3. What books can guide me with the best interventions for her?

4. Can you recommend a good social stories book?

Thanks!

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TACA has a great book 'Autism Journey' and it is very very user friendly.Go to any taca meeting and you get it free.Or you can order off their webpage: www.tacanow.org or google search taca now orgThis is the BEST book ever.RobynMom to 14 1/2 year old Aspie Angel-- Sent from my Palm PreOn Apr 13, 2010 22:21, jjcox22 <jjcox22@...> wrote:

Hi everyone,

I am trying to navigate the journey of helping my daughter who I think may have Asperger's, she is almost 6 years old. A few questions:

1. Do I get her eval'd by a neuropsychologist, or a pediatric neurologist?

2. How do I get the school to give her services?

3. What books can guide me with the best interventions for her?

4. Can you recommend a good social stories book?

Thanks!

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1. She is young for a neuropschologist I think and many schools

want a diagnosis from a MD. Many people see a developmental

peditrician. At age 7 our neurologist said our daughter

had anxiety. At age 9 I had the neuropschologist do a full

evalaution and then we had the DX. I still had to go back to

the nuerologist for the school to accept the DX.

When I saw the neuropsch I brought audio tapes of peers interactions to be sure

the neuropsch got the full picture. I taped meltdowns too.

I documented all the stuff that had to be a certain way.

2. First you have to have a diagnosis.Then you ask for

an IEP evaluation by the child study team. Ask for

an evaluation of OT, PT, speech. My daughter still appeared

somehat typical at 6 if she plays by herself at recess

you want to ask for a behaviorist to observe her at

recess and lunch this is called a functional behavior assessement

FBA.

3. There are so many books. OASIS has a very complete book that

is likely at your library. Tony Attwood is a known expert.

There is alot on line by Yale Child Study Center. Look at this website.

http://childstudycenter.yale.edu/autism/aspergers.html

4. Oh socializning where to start. I really had little

luck with social stories my daughter rejects them. But

if you have success with this look at the Gray Center.

There is alot you can do, one parent training program is called

Floortime by Dr. Stanley Greenspan. There are others that

are more expensive (relationship development intervention RTI)

but the main idea is to be a role model

for an autistic child, to draw them out to start to shape

non verbal communication and to help them enjoy socializing.

http://www.thegraycenter.org/

http://stanleygreenspan.com/

Pam

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> Hi everyone,

> I am trying to navigate the journey of helping my daughter who I think may

have Asperger's, she is almost 6 years old. A few questions:

>

> 1. Do I get her eval'd by a neuropsychologist, or a pediatric neurologist?

> 2. How do I get the school to give her services?

> 3. What books can guide me with the best interventions for her?

> 4. Can you recommend a good social stories book?

>

> Thanks!

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