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| Wed, 07-11-2007 - 8:16pm |
Emma had her dr appointment today. I took all the information I had gathered and all of the diagnostic tools I'd collected in with me. She asked some questions and said she agreed, but couldn't diagnose since she's not trained. She said that their office uses the ASAD and she would get one for me and have the psychologist look at it. Then if it met criteria she would refer us to a dr in the area that specializes. There will likely be a huge waiting list to get in with the dr (if she takes my insurance), then 6 months with her before getting a diagnosis. This area really sucks for getting diagnosis, as the children's hospital recently quit taking referrals, so that leaves the University Hospital and private practitioners. The nice thing is that in the interim I have the dr's agreement and can use that to hopefully get some evals done through school just before Emma starts.
It's nice to have my intuition validated, but it stil sucks to be right. I'm really glad my family is supportive and well educated. My aunt has a music degree with an emphasis on special ed. My mom's actually the one in the most denial, which I think comes from the fact that she sees so much of herself in Emma. If there's something diagnosibly "wrong" with Emma then maybe there's something "wrong" with my mom, or so the thought process likely goes.
Well, thank you for listening, I'll definately be sticking around for a while.
It's nice to have my intuition validated, but it stil sucks to be right. I'm really glad my family is supportive and well educated. My aunt has a music degree with an emphasis on special ed. My mom's actually the one in the most denial, which I think comes from the fact that she sees so much of herself in Emma. If there's something diagnosibly "wrong" with Emma then maybe there's something "wrong" with my mom, or so the thought process likely goes.
Well, thank you for listening, I'll definately be sticking around for a while.

I know how hard it can be waiting for an official diagnosis. At least you are on the right path. Taking 6 months to diagnosis is going to be a pain though.
My son was diagnosed last year. First he went through testing under the school system which concluded that he had possible asperger's. Then he had testing through his Pediatric Dr. From there we went to a neurologist who suspected asperger's but was not trained to diagnose it. (Wish I had knew before I sent him) She referred him to a psychologist but the only one around where I live had a long waiting list and was way out of our way. Finally his pediatrician referred him to a Child Psychiatrist who was able to make a official diagnosis after meeting with us to ask questions and talking to him for about an hour.
s'ok! I was hangin' out here for a good 18 months until Liam FINALLY was dx last September (like you I alewways knew). Btw: we had already been though a child neuropsychologist and dev ped in MD before the school psychologist for the school system we moved to in GA officially tested and dx him. It was a world apart' the neuro and dev ped barely spent 3 hours with him between the two of them, but the school sytem evaluated him over many....many hours and weeks.
Dee