We had the child study meeting with the principal, a speech pathologist, a person from the school board, two of my daughter’s teachers and the guidence counselor who has been seeing her once a week.
There is no doubt she has Asperger’s syndrome, she is in display of every characteristic of the autistic spectrum disorder. This was echoed by the teachers, the principal and the guidence counselor and we can also be blessed that the principal has a grandson with Asperger’s and the guidence counselor has a nephew with it as well.
It just means that she has some social deficits and a hard time with sensory overload at times. She can over react to situations where she feels like she’s lost control such as getting told to change her behavior in the classroom.
The guidence counselor is going to continue to meet with her and work on the lying and social situations, we are going to work on social situations with her, and they are going to continue to observe her behavior in the classroom and other aspects of the schooling.
There is no question that she has an incredibly high intelligence quotient. And because the Asperger’s is not impacting her academically there isn’t much she can get from an individual education plan. But we have some tactics we are going to try to try to steer her behavior and social deficiencies.
I intend on taking a picture of our Thanksgiving feast. I’ll share those pictures tomorrow probably late.
I am thankful for good friends, kind aquaintences, two brilliant children, a loving husband, 3 cuddly cats and the love provided to us by the grace of God.
I am very tired tonight and am not entirely sure why, I am feeling a little down because I’m not hosting anyone for dinner this year but it’s for the best I’m certain of that.
In a little while I’ll start the prep work on the turkey and begin the stock for the gravy (which consists of me boiling the giblets and neck and such with some seasonings starting overnight and all through the day)….the stock will also serve as a basting base for the Turkey which gets basted about every 30 minutes.
With the turkey we are having peas, mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing with cranberries and apples and pine nuts, rolls and cranberry sauce decorated in the lovely shape of the can…how festive.
It’s just the four of us and my kids won’t eat much. I’ll let the cats have the giblets when I’m ready to make the gravy, I simply use it for stock and that’s all. I don’t eat organs thank you very much.
Also thank you to a friend my husband was very appreciate of being able to get some venison, he hasn’t had any in a long while and has been wanting some and will probably make him some burgers or something here in the near future.
Otherwise, besides feeling a little depressed tonight, I am also relieved that I’m not crazy….see my daughter was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome at the age of 4 and a half. We had only one other school recognize an issue and that was Tommy’s Road Elementary in NC…but the circumstances the way they were with psycho M……we moved back to Virginia before we could move further on that issue.
And then the school here that she went to last year (HJB is what it is commonly known as)….noted nothing significant with regards to her social or academic deveolopment. Despite our insistance that she had this diagnosis that school surmised that at most it was ADHD.
Finally we get to a school (LFK) that both acknowledges the Asperger’s Syndrome but is going to work with us to help her get the best education and whatever other resources she might need in correlation with her diagnosis and that gives me some relief.
But to be honest I’m not sure if I am tired or just feeling down….ya know. I went and laid down for about 2 hours earlier and slept (dreamt of ordering a pizza—guess what I’m craving–we will have to do that after I get my disability payment). Could go to bed right now and sleep all night but there is prep cooking to do…..
Thanks for listening to my mindless rambling. I hope you like the look of my page…I am ever so indecisive about what I want it to look like…..It’s more of a expressive outlet for me the constant changes.
Yeah I now I’m not a lunatic but I’m awful with coming up with blog titles.
There are a few books I need to get about Asperger’s to further educate myself so I can do what’s best for my daughter also.
