We had our discharge conference with DS's private ST/OT/Social Skills classroom team. One point they stressed is that they believe DS should be reevaluated because they think his diagnosis may have changed. They thought his diagnosis (2.5 years ago when he was barely 3 yo) by a developmental pedi is "outdated" and doesn't reflect his current challenges. I would agree- they stressed that DS should see a neuropsych who specializes in ASD for an eval. We discussed that DS still has some anxiety that is inhibiting progression in some areas. For example, if told to write his name on a piece of paper, he'll pussy-foot around and waste time for 10 minutes, and then when the class is moving on to the next project he'll see that he's the only one who hasn't written his name and he'll melt down crying because he's lagging behind the class. He won't be able to pull himself out of the crying until he has completed the task at hand- which is obviously hard because he's so busy being distraught about being behind. Other things he cries easily about include game playing. He was playing Hi Ho Cheerio with some kids and kept crying whenever he was behind.
I'm excited to be able to find help to solve these anxiety problems- its obviously something he needs to overcome to be successful in school. I am wholly unfamilier with this whole genre though- help me out, what is it that they will do to help DS? Will he meet with a psychologist weekly to discuss things? How does the eval generally work? His anxieties are always small things- never big things. For example, today he cheerfully boarded a bus with 100 squalling unfamilier kids for his first day of camp. That didn't phase him a bit. But if we had been running late for the bus, he would have been really anxious and probably cried about it.
TIA!
Re: Neuropsych eval?