Re: may have aspergers

September 5, 2010

Hi, from what I keep being told, you cannot have Asperger's if you have a speech

delay. For several years, that was what we were told by our son's doctors as to

why he was diagnosed with PDD-NOS instead of Asperger's. Once his speech delay

was gone, the diagnosis was changed, but now I'm being told that if you EVER had

a speech delay, you can't be diagnosed with Aspergers. Don't know if anyone

else has ever heard that or not.

Hope this helps.

Angi

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> Hello everyone, my son is 4.5 years old. I'm Canadian but we live in

Japan. was late speaking and at 2.6 years I started to worry about autism.

In our house we speak in English but daycare and now kindergarten is in

Japanese. The doctors said that he had good eye contact, was engaging and that

it was just a bilingual thing. Last check-up 2 months ago the doctor said he may

have aspergers but was too soon to diagnos. The main reason the doctor thought

of aspergers was, when became excited he clapped his hands. This is very

stressful for my husband and I because there is nothing around us to help. We

wanted to get help from the city hall for speech and language but were blocked

by this undiagnonsis. I recently started to worry about teaching my son about

boundries and strangers. I am soooo out of my depth I have no clue. But my son

can't make conversation yet. He just tells us but can't really answer so I'm not

sure how to help him learn. It seems like everyone on here has kids who can

communicate well. Does anyone have any advice for me?

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September 6, 2010

I've heard the difference between autism and aspergers is the speech delay or lack of. However, my son was diagnosed with aspergers and has always been speech delayed. He scored very high on all the autism tests but is your typical aspie. His neuropsychologist told me that you cannot score high on the aspergers tests unless you actually have aspergers, so he went with that diagnosis (plus he is text book aspie). Not sure this helps, but just wanted to say that my son has been getting speech services since he was 2 (8 1/2 now) and was diagnosed with aspergers! Maybe it just depends on the doc?????Sep 6, 2010 09:13:13 AM, wrote:>

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Hi, from what I keep being told, you cannot have Asperger's if you have a speech >delay. For several years, that was what we were told by our son's doctors as to >why he was diagnosed with PDD-NOS instead of Asperger's. Once his speech delay >was gone, the diagnosis was changed, but now I'm being told that if you EVER had >a speech delay, you can't be diagnosed with Aspergers. Don't know if anyone else >has ever heard that or not.>

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Hope this helps.>

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Angi>

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> Hello everyone, my son is 4.5 years old. I'm Canadian but we live >in Japan. was late speaking and at 2.6 years I started to worry about autism. >In our house we speak in English but daycare and now kindergarten is in Japanese. >The doctors said that he had good eye contact, was engaging and that it was just >a bilingual thing. Last check-up 2 months ago the doctor said he may have aspergers >but was too soon to diagnos. The main reason the doctor thought of aspergers was, >when became excited he clapped his hands. This is very stressful for my husband >and I because there is nothing around us to help. We wanted to get help from the >city hall for speech and language but were blocked by this undiagnonsis. I recently >started to worry about teaching my son about boundries and strangers. I am soooo >out of my depth I have no clue. But my son can't make conversation yet. He just >tells us but can't really answer so I'm not sure how to help him learn. It seems >like everyone on

here has kids who can communicate well. Does anyone have any >advice for me?>

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September 7, 2010

It seems like many of the lists of symptoms for Asperger's differentiate it from

classic autism based in part on a lack of speech delay. But I have been reading

Tony Attwood's book " The Complete Guide to Asperger's " and he says that it is

incorrect to say that a child cannot have Asperger's if they have had a speech

delay. He also points out that the criteria listed in the DSM regarding AS say

there are no speech delays, but that the examples they give for developmentally

appropriate speech would in fact be considered delayed. From all I have read and

learned from other parents, it seems like when looking at an AS diagnosis, it is

important to assemble all the little pieces that make up the big picture, rather

than relying on one particular criteria to rule AS in or out, since each child

is so individual.

Bridget

September 13, 2010

My 6 yo was dx with Autism specifically because of the speech delay. I was told

that ALL other symptoms are the same between Aut/Aspie, that due to any language

issue, the dx is Aut. We didn't get a PDD/NOS dx.

Ashton

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> > Hello everyone, my son is 4.5 years old. I'm Canadian but we live in