Right.... Had the year from hell in terms of dd1 and eventually at my sort of "d"m advice sort out a clincal psychologist to see if they could get her to talk about what was so obviously upsetting her as we couldn't seem to get it out of her. Anyway he "mis"diagnosed her as extremely gifted. Now whilst I'm seriously proud of my dd1 I also don't think she's "extremely" gifted. To cut a long story short we eventually went to another clinical AND Educational psychologist who did an indepth review including a Speech and Language test and concluded that "she has a high propensity to Aspergers".
Throughout the past year her current school (a junior (only) school at which she started back in September in Year 3) have been CRAP! Seriously crap. I'm happy... ish with the diagnosis i.e. it really answers loads of things about her personality throughout the whole of her life but not particularly happy with the thought of coping with aspergers - iyswim. So we'd like to change school. We're seeing two school's tomorrow who both have places and desperately want to know what sort of questions we should be asking.
I have more questions on this subject than time to write them. The two places have come up this week just as we are discovering that she "may" have this problem. I know that she hates change but at the same time she's being called names at school and I think that it might be better for her to have a "new" start in the long run although I already know we'll have hell to pay in the short term when she changes school. Mind you simply changing classroom causes dd1 to fall apart so what the heck .
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Wills · 07/07/2008 22:33
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