K-Fam's journey through My Father's World
• Oct. 7, 2008 - We finally have a date
Well, I don't believe I've mentioned this yet on my blog... my DS (4) is most likely on the autism spectrum. I'd suspected as much for a while now but for various reasons never actually checked it out in depth. Then this Spring we put DS on a gluten-free (GF) diet and are also avoiding corn, peanuts, yeast and dairy. He's doing much much better.
We'd been unable to take him to church- or much of anywhere for that matter- before this since his behavior had been so bad. Now that we can take him out in public regularly without fear of nuclear meltdown, he goes to church every week and is even in his age-appropriate class. Seeing DS around all those other kids DS's age made me realize how very behind DS is compared to the other kids in his class. Particularly in the area of speech. Since the speech pathologist at our nearest school had done a great job helping DD#1 work through her lisp and a couple of other speech issues, I thought we could just take DS in for speech therapy and be done with it.
Well, I was wrong.
Since the speech pathologist wanted to do a full evaluation, she brought in the psychologist to evaluate DS first. I could tell something was not right and about 20 minutes into it, we were discussing autism. :( I was hoping my gut feelings were wrong but after hearing it from professionals I had to admit they were right.
We went home and waited a few weeks for the next phone call and it came Monday.
So we go in for a meeting on Friday with the speech pathologist, psychologist, the principal and his teacher. I'm so grateful that after discussing this with a fellow homeschooling mom at church, she pointed me in the direction of a lady at church who as it turns out, is his teacher!
I've been really praying about all this and seeking the Lord because even though my plans had been to homeschool DS from the start, maybe those are not God's plans. As I've learned over the last couple of years, just because something looks and feels right, doesn't mean it's God's plan. For now, everything is falling into place. Even down to our vaccine waiver. When talking to a friend who's son has autism, I was told that the speech pathologist usually gives her a hard time when it comes to declining vaccines. When I was at the school, it was the speech pathologist who walked me over to the nurse's office for the waiver, then when the nurse was objecting a bit, the speech path was actually supportive and helpful for me! What a blessing!
Well, I've gotta turn in for the night. I'd really appreciate if anyone reading this could keep us in their prayers.
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