Problems getting a diagnosis …

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

1 comment October 23rd, 2008

The Autistic Spectrum - Autism

Autistic people appear not to have “input filters” in their brains so that everything they hear and think bombards their brain. Their problems seem to stem from the fact that they cannot cope with all this information. Visual images bombard their thinking so fast that they are not always consciously aware of the separate images and can work out solutions to complex problems without knowing how they came to the solution.

Their thinking may, therefore, becomes intuitive rather than conscious. They appear to be extreme visual thinkers and have great difficulty with concepts and ideas that they cannot visualize. They often have trouble reading words known as “content words” –for example “of”, “it”, “which” and “than” because they are unable to visualize these words. They also find phonics difficult and learn by remembering the look of words rather than the sound. The brain of an autistic person is crammed full of images which are being manipulated, rotated, flipped and broken down all the time. This can cause emotional or mental problems and autistic pupils are prone to obsessive disorders.

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