Post by chinababe on Apr 29, 2008 18:30:00 GMT 10
Sal god I love your little monkey picture it is just great!
The professionals in the field say that you shouldn't dx (diagnose) a child under 3 as being austic because it can be many other traits instead.
By the way my own background is I have been a pre-school mothercraft Nurse in a variety of long day care settings for about 15 years now - currently upgrading my qualification to that of Bach Early childhood (kinder teaching) and maybe later a workplace training and assessment so I can teach at TAFE and/or Uni. I just don't want Sal to think I am a werido or worse a social worker!!!!!! LOL! (this is a joke I swear! - our SW was actually lovely)
I should also explain that I am dyslexic - diagnosed in a time when it wasn't highly recognised.
I have worked with a lot of special needs kids and have often been the first point of referral to other services for them.
I would say that there is somewhat of a genetic trait, the kids with aspegers I tend to find are very interesting and they can develop affection and will even be quite receptive to touch at times (flossy this might be more of an option to talk about with your SW).
I would also say that in general there is an increase of publicly known cases - in the past many of these situations would have been 'screen from the public' - can you tell my older sibling is a psychiatric nurse (in the field for nearly 20 years). So sadly or not sadly (depending on your presepective - I know people that believe austimsim is often a condition that the general public doesn't yet know how to effectively communicate with - but that's another story) I would venture to say
that our rates are quite high like that of the USA.
I admit that some forms of it I feel very intimated by.
While lots of ICA kids don't come with a defined background (I expect my child to be in orphanage care) there are those that actually do come with a known background of some level - particularly if they have been in foster care, there have been cases where the foster parents and overseas adoptive parents (us slobs!) have maintained contact. A very small few adoptive families have even met the extended family of the birth family. There is also in some situation sibling placements and adoption of an older child will sometimes come with quite a well formed understanding of at least some of their background.
Anyway must away study and dinner call me.......
Flossy and Sal it is definitely interesting to talk to you and have ideas to bounce off each other. Thanks for being there!
The kids shown were reaching normal milestones then suddenly 'clicked' and turned autistic - is that usual? They were mostly around 2 years of age... they said they knew there is genetic influence, but the other trigger they don't know... although all of these kids got sick before it effected them which makes you think it's a virus... it now effects 1 in 150 US kids - is it that great here? Chinababe??
The professionals in the field say that you shouldn't dx (diagnose) a child under 3 as being austic because it can be many other traits instead.
By the way my own background is I have been a pre-school mothercraft Nurse in a variety of long day care settings for about 15 years now - currently upgrading my qualification to that of Bach Early childhood (kinder teaching) and maybe later a workplace training and assessment so I can teach at TAFE and/or Uni. I just don't want Sal to think I am a werido or worse a social worker!!!!!! LOL! (this is a joke I swear! - our SW was actually lovely)
I should also explain that I am dyslexic - diagnosed in a time when it wasn't highly recognised.
I have worked with a lot of special needs kids and have often been the first point of referral to other services for them.
I would say that there is somewhat of a genetic trait, the kids with aspegers I tend to find are very interesting and they can develop affection and will even be quite receptive to touch at times (flossy this might be more of an option to talk about with your SW).
I would also say that in general there is an increase of publicly known cases - in the past many of these situations would have been 'screen from the public' - can you tell my older sibling is a psychiatric nurse (in the field for nearly 20 years). So sadly or not sadly (depending on your presepective - I know people that believe austimsim is often a condition that the general public doesn't yet know how to effectively communicate with - but that's another story) I would venture to say
that our rates are quite high like that of the USA.
I admit that some forms of it I feel very intimated by.
While lots of ICA kids don't come with a defined background (I expect my child to be in orphanage care) there are those that actually do come with a known background of some level - particularly if they have been in foster care, there have been cases where the foster parents and overseas adoptive parents (us slobs!) have maintained contact. A very small few adoptive families have even met the extended family of the birth family. There is also in some situation sibling placements and adoption of an older child will sometimes come with quite a well formed understanding of at least some of their background.
Anyway must away study and dinner call me.......
Flossy and Sal it is definitely interesting to talk to you and have ideas to bounce off each other. Thanks for being there!