tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839052051073416028.post8891511955780599712..comments2023-11-02T07:30:27.680-07:00Comments on A Little Bit Autistic: Speech Update: Four Years, Three MonthsLaurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07764022300747217993noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839052051073416028.post-3889748767834472402010-07-13T17:00:53.626-07:002010-07-13T17:00:53.626-07:00Marching, marching...some of his responses remind ...Marching, marching...some of his responses remind me of my E's responses when he took an IQ test at age four. He argued *a lot* with the examiner about specifics on the pictures, like the "sheet rope" in your situation. Now at 8, he is so better-able to read these types of images. And I agree that testing is so, so difficult for any four-year-old!Elizabeth Channelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03694334658055229350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839052051073416028.post-73507087921679001662010-07-12T15:22:54.169-07:002010-07-12T15:22:54.169-07:00It will be great to have this to look back on in t...It will be great to have this to look back on in time. Reading this inspired me to keep better track of specific conversation records with our girl. I know her language has progressed, but I forget sometimes how it was a while back. <br />So interesting also what called his attention and what he found to be overwhelming (or uninteresting). Leave it to our kids to tune in to things the rest of us miss and to find less intriguing the things we focus on. <br />"Marching to the beat of his own drum" - this is the one we always come back to as well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839052051073416028.post-55701607001591634712010-07-12T04:11:04.351-07:002010-07-12T04:11:04.351-07:00Thanks Kris - yes, totally confusing but makes per...Thanks Kris - yes, totally confusing but makes perfect sense. I am SO ready to send Brad to a neuropsych but you really can't until they're a little older. I look forward to having more data - processing speed, sensory, etc - to figure out what's going on in there. <br /><br />Nyx - exactly, most of the test is administered using these cards which he struggles to discern or discriminate. So in some respects, I feel like his score is artificially low. But anecdotally his speech seems to be on a par with my neighbor's child, who happens to be two years and 9 months -ish. So it's not just the pictures or the visually processing. And yes, processing speed seems to be part of it. Speak quick and he's totally lost.Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07764022300747217993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839052051073416028.post-49298845954906244062010-07-11T16:35:10.422-07:002010-07-11T16:35:10.422-07:00ps -- we definitely have a big dose of the slow pr...ps -- we definitely have a big dose of the slow processing Kris talked about. In fact, sometimes Toby's speech actually slows down to the point where he sounds like he's doing a parody of an old LP on the wrong speed, he stretches out every syllable. But it comes and goes. It really seems like it's an intermittent thing. I wish I could detect a pattern in the intermittency. I feel like there is something there.Nyxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01274150882524269249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839052051073416028.post-66085611396793419672010-07-11T16:32:56.144-07:002010-07-11T16:32:56.144-07:00I love the "so so hard. It might take a very ...I love the "so so hard. It might take a very long time!" Hilarious! It's sort of amazing to me how familiar all of this is. I wondered about the raining/not raining thing. I mean, for the people who are trying to escape the rain, they are going somewhere where it is not raining, right? That kind of makes sense. Toby does something similar, to me. If Simon is getting on his nerves, instead of saying he wants Simon to leave, he will always say he wants Simon in the hallway. As for the dishwashing/making a recipe, maybe he's been hanging out in my house, where I have to wash the dishes before I can cook anything. LOL. But seriously, you're right, it sounds to me also like maybe a visual thing is going on. The thing about the rope, for example, really does sound like a visual thing to me. Do you remember that section in Mislabeled Child about pattern processing? I can't remember it very well, but I remember an illustration showing how hard it could be to find something in the refrigerator. if his depth perception kind of goes in and out, might that not create a problem like that?Nyxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01274150882524269249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839052051073416028.post-69047316589848202632010-07-11T06:58:40.453-07:002010-07-11T06:58:40.453-07:00Interesting....I imagine this testing is hard for ...Interesting....I imagine this testing is hard for our little guys. No fun! Some of his repsonses struck me as funny and I could picture my NT kids responding that way at 4. He is still so young...<br /><br />Alex's testing has demonstrated significant problems with rapid naming where he consistently scores <1% and verbal inhibition, also <1%. Anything where he needs to be "quick" he runs into trouble. His processing speed is a huge issue with his receptive language processing and also affects his expressive speech. When formally tested, he scores low average on most tests - however, when you talk to him informally, you definitely notice the deficits, stated in a report as: "Alex has difficulty with fluently expressing his ideas in an efficient and coherent manner" and the neuropsych attributes much of this to a slow processing speed and problems with executive functioning. Other examiners have said simply "a language disorder". I'm not sure if it is a true language disorder or if the language problems are due to problems with processing speed/executive functioning. It should be noted these examiners did not dx ASD; they felt the correct dx was ADHD and/or SPD. Hence, the need to "explain" the language problems in the absence of an ASD dx. Whew...confusing!!Krishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14934033119198457032noreply@blogger.com