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Hi JB, we're doing okay thanks. We've had a year of therapy for the kids which has worked really well for David, but for Claire it hasn't been as productive.
We have had assessment after assessment for her, and we seem to be getting a bit closer to diagnosis (still waiting after 5 years) we know minimal that she is ADHD and ADD, and on the Autistic spectrum disorder.It's just taken a long time to get there.
On the whole though, can't complain, there's plenty got things worse out there.

I hope you, LDS and your lovely boys are all doing well.
Best wishes, Diane.

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Strange that a diagnosis will come after so long, this should be done after just a few visits with a Psychologist. Is it that she is such a unique case?

Thanks for updating us, don't forget you have a Blog if you ever want to release your thoughts. Also, I've been adding a lot of Threads on both ADHD / Autism, some of which may inform you more.

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I think they just can't decide from the many differing aspects she actually has, plus into the equation they don't know what has come from living with her birth family, and what is genetic.

SAn example of this is that she ticks lots of boxes of Aspergers but not all, and the evaluation of her is that mentally, socially and behaviorally she is less than a 5 year old, but at math, has been assessed at age 11 1/2 (she is early 9). So in some ways for example, she will talk to you about mountain ranges, and then on the other hand you pick her up from school and she is lying on her back with her legs in the air screaming the building down. And although she can talk about mountain ranges, she can't comprehend that car windows don't go down by 'magic'.!


I'm hoping that when King's college London have finished trials they are doing, and developing a new test that will diagnose autism with a 15 minute test, we may be able to move forward from these long winded diagnoses, and it hopefully will help the child a lot earlier on. There has also been suggestions that she also has a mental health problem, but haven't had that theory backed up yet, so I'm not worrying myself until it happens.

I was just looking over some of your threads regarding these issues.. Thanks for sharing.

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Maybe she is savant in math and definitely sounds Autistic. Maybe they will say something like Autism PDD-NOS which basically means We can't figure her out.... Did they do a full head scan for areas working around her brain?

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DianeC, it was so nice to see you put a Post in one of the Topics. Your children must be all grown up now, how are things with you and yours?