Assessments

With our growing concern at the prospect of long term unemployment, earlier this year we took A-One to a neuropsychologist for some vocational guidance. She did some assessments with him, which essentially validated the same impairments that tests had revealed when he was 12 years.

At that time he was diagnosed with Pervasive Development Disorder - Not Otherwise Specified(PDD-NOS) at the mild end of Austistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD). To me that seemed to mean 'I Don't Know', so it wasn't very helpful to us in finding appropriate help, although we had done speech, physio and occupational therapy with him when he was little.


Nevertheless the educational psychologist working with him when he was 12 did some emotion face recognition work with him, and helped him with strategies to respond to bullying.

Today, I think he is sensitive to others' emotions and can respond to them, but not necessarily with a great deal of nuance.