Problems getting a diagnosis …

October 23rd, 2008

Hello. We have a 17 yr. old daughter with Autism and what we believe could be Dyslexia. We have been suspicious of Dyslexia, since she was 8 yrs. old. The problem we are having is, NO ONE in any school district, will test our daughter for this disorder. They simply tell us, she is too low functioning and the test will not come out the right way. Basically, they are letting us know that this is A WASTE OF THEIR TIME. We also cannot find anyone in our community to test for Dyslexia either. Again, we are told that Autistic kids, no matter how high functioning they are, cannot be tested. All agencies we contacted, require a minimum I.Q. of 71. Obviously, I.Q. tests are impossible for kids with Autism. So, how can we help our child? This truly seems like a NO WIN situation. Thank you.

Hi,
i so sympathize with what you are going through. your story about getting diagnoses is so common. now do you know for certain that she is autistic because, contrary to what Ron Davies says, it if actually not possible to be both dyslexic and autistic, because both sets of people perceive the world in a very different way and they cannot overlap. have you done the tick box tests on my site? i do have one for dyslexia and one for dyspraxia. it is possible to be both autistic and dyspraxic , although i personally have never come across one. this is because dyspraxia is a caused by a slight brian damage near birth and autism is a perception problem. i have come across kids who are both dyslexic and dyspraxic.

now it is commonly known that autistic kids are actually potential Servants so i fail to see how they can be saying that autistic kids are all low IQ because is not true.

send me more details of your daughter’s problems and the results of my tick box tests and i will do my best to help you.
thanks
dawn

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