Re: Hyperactive? Also SSI

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I've been doing the charts for six months but he is so impulsive he reacts

without thinking of the consequence.Then he hyperfocuses online over the toy.

Tha is al he can think and talk about and he wants expensive things.

> > >

> > > Are your Aspergers children really hyperactive? n is. He is always

all over the place. He runs away from us. He always has a lot of energy. When I

go outside with him, as soon as a close the door, he is right by the road. I

hate keeping him in. We use when I call a baby leash on him when we go in big

places like the mall. We always get looks from people. When we go in public, he

always cries and screams when he doesn't get what he wants and we always get

looks and whispers from people. It makes me mad because they don't know what we

have to deal with. Do your kids have adhd? If so, how do you go about getting

them on medication? And do our kids qualify for SSI? How do I find out? Thanks

for all your help ladies

> >

> > My Asperger son is not hyperactive at all and has no attention problems at

all. It just depends on the child. My son has problems that look like

hyperactivity/ inattention to the untrained eye. He will avoid looking at people

while they are talking to him and do something else to keep his hands and eyes

busy elsewhere. But he is attending well, using his auditory senses--just not

looking. This includes in class while the teacher is lecturing.. They test him,

and he is listening, can answer questions about what they are talking about,

etc. Since he doesn't " go with the flow " very well, when he was young, he would

also wonder off in public. We kept him in a stroller until he was almost 5yo;

then he was too heavy, and I had to just really keep an eye on him. I had to

really lessen my ambitions on what we would accomplish with a family outing,

since I couldn't do as much and keep a very close eye on him at the same time.

Again, that may seem like

> inattention,

> > but it really is a lack of ability to read non-verbal communications. They

aren't seeing the body language and facial expressions that signal other's

intents. It is important to distinguish between ADHD and the communication

breakdowns of autism since medication isn't what is going to help the

communication breakdowns. On the other hand, if your child has both ADHD and

AS--medication may help a lot.

> >

> > Regarding SSI--seems some kids qualify and some don't--suggests some gray

area. Unless you are low income or don't have medical insurance, I'm not sure

what the point would be for a child. If you are low income, it seems like

medicaid has more programs, and I don't think you can do both. At least that is

what they told my husband.

> >

> > My husband is blind and has had SSI for decades, so we have been dealing

with it for quite some time.. I don't know that much about SSI for kids though..

> >

> > SSI for adults--SSI is intended to be an insurance program that people pay

into.. You're supposed to have so many work credits to qualify and you have to

wait a couple of years or something like that. I believe only kids get SSI " for

free " .

> >

> > As an adult though, SSI is not so income dependent, although it is

somewhat.. Someone who has paid into the system and becomes disabled will get

some kind of payment and medicare insurance. For all practical purposes, they

are just getting their soc sec early (and probably a smaller amount than they

would get if they were able to keep working).

> >

> > I'm posting the info on SSI for adults in response to some earlier posts.

Some people were saying their kids qualified for SSI as kids, but then were told

they didn't qualify as adults. It could have nothing to do with their

disability, simply the fact that they haven't worked and earned enough work

credits. I'm not so sure you can get past that.. If they can't work at all, or

just haven't worked much yet, they might need to go the medicaid/welfare route.

One thing you can do for your kids is make sure their employers are filing

social security taxes on them. With contract jobs or cash jobs, sometimes this

doesn't happen unless someone makes it happen. Or you can try to make sure your

child doesn't take a job where social security taxes aren't going to be paid.

> >

>

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Gregor is only 6, so for the time being he thinks he can only go on-line at the library, this gives us a way to limit the time he is on there, we usually limit the amount he can spend on

what every he is working for, the most expensive thing we got him was £35 and he had to work for it for a month, poor boy. lol

From: m.snyder78 <m.snyder78@...>Subject: ( ) Re: Hyperactive? Also SSI Date: Wednesday, 26 August, 2009, 3:13 AM

I've been doing the charts for six months but he is so impulsive he reacts without thinking of the consequence. Then he hyperfocuses online over the toy. Tha is al he can think and talk about and he wants expensive things. > > >> > > Are your Aspergers children really hyperactive? n is. He is always all over the place. He runs away from us. He always has a lot of energy. When I go outside with him, as soon as a close the door, he is right by the road. I hate keeping him in. We use when I call a baby leash on him when we go in big places like the mall. We always get looks from people. When we go in public, he always cries and screams when he doesn't get what he wants and we always get looks and whispers from people. It makes me mad because they don't know what we have to deal with. Do your kids have adhd? If so, how do you go about getting them on medication? And do our kids qualify for SSI? How do I find out? Thanks for all your help

ladies > > > > My Asperger son is not hyperactive at all and has no attention problems at all. It just depends on the child. My son has problems that look like hyperactivity/ inattention to the untrained eye. He will avoid looking at people while they are talking to him and do something else to keep his hands and eyes busy elsewhere. But he is attending well, using his auditory senses--just not looking. This includes in class while the teacher is lecturing.. They test him, and he is listening, can answer questions about what they are talking about, etc. Since he doesn't "go with the flow" very well, when he was young, he would also wonder off in public. We kept him in a stroller until he was almost 5yo; then he was too heavy, and I had to just really keep an eye on him. I had to really lessen my ambitions on what we would accomplish with a family outing, since I couldn't do as much and keep a very close eye on him at the same time.

Again, that may seem like> inattention,> > but it really is a lack of ability to read non-verbal communications. They aren't seeing the body language and facial expressions that signal other's intents. It is important to distinguish between ADHD and the communication breakdowns of autism since medication isn't what is going to help the communication breakdowns. On the other hand, if your child has both ADHD and AS--medication may help a lot.> > > > Regarding SSI--seems some kids qualify and some don't--suggests some gray area. Unless you are low income or don't have medical insurance, I'm not sure what the point would be for a child. If you are low income, it seems like medicaid has more programs, and I don't think you can do both. At least that is what they told my husband. > > > > My husband is blind and has had SSI for decades, so we have been dealing with it for quite some time.. I don't know

that much about SSI for kids though.. > > > > SSI for adults--SSI is intended to be an insurance program that people pay into.. You're supposed to have so many work credits to qualify and you have to wait a couple of years or something like that. I believe only kids get SSI "for free". > > > > As an adult though, SSI is not so income dependent, although it is somewhat.. Someone who has paid into the system and becomes disabled will get some kind of payment and medicare insurance. For all practical purposes, they are just getting their soc sec early (and probably a smaller amount than they would get if they were able to keep working).> > > > I'm posting the info on SSI for adults in response to some earlier posts. Some people were saying their kids qualified for SSI as kids, but then were told they didn't qualify as adults. It could have nothing to do with their disability, simply the fact that

they haven't worked and earned enough work credits. I'm not so sure you can get past that.. If they can't work at all, or just haven't worked much yet, they might need to go the medicaid/welfare route. One thing you can do for your kids is make sure their employers are filing social security taxes on them. With contract jobs or cash jobs, sometimes this doesn't happen unless someone makes it happen. Or you can try to make sure your child doesn't take a job where social security taxes aren't going to be paid.> >>