Hi. My name is Anna

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Okay, not really. Anne is my middle name. I'm a 34 yr old woman whose daughter had a full neuropsych eval done at 3 yrs, 9 months of age. She turned 4yrs old in Sept. Her ped sent her for this eval due to hand-flapping. He believed it to be a motor tic, but wanted to make sure...so he referred her for an eval to rule out PDD. It was ruled out (apparently) Her test results were as follows (using the WPPSI - III)

Verbal IQ - 139 99.5 percentile
Performance - 125 95th percentile
Full scale - 137 99th percentile
General language - 99.8th percentile

Receptive vocab - scaled 17 very superior
block design - 14 high average
information 17 very superior
object assembly 15 superior
picture naming 18 superior

OWLS oral written language scales-listening comprehension
standard score 110 75th percentile
Expressive one word picture vocab test - 145
receptive 124 95th

Motor and visual perceptual
visual-motor drawing 111 standard
visual-spatial matching 98
fine motor pegboard 114

NEPSY-II a Developmental neuropsych assessment
Visuomotor precision time scaled - 11
visuomotor percision combined - 17

Attention/executive functioning - scaled score 12 Average

Memory
memory for designs - scaled 11
Narrative memory - 13

Behavior
affect recognition - 13 scaled
Theory of mind - 11 scaled

The neuropsych wrote "She maintained good eye contact, engaged in imaginative play, and displayed social and communicative reciprocity. Charlotte displayed understanding of other's emotions in a story, demonstrated empathy, and consistently instigated and sustained interaction. Charlotte specidically said "Let's play with this!" while maintaining eye contact and smiling. She grabbed toys from the eaminer when she wanted them, but was also able to request verbally while integrating eye contact (I need some help with this). She engaged in joint attention, displayed enjoyment in interaction, initiated and maintained functional play, used nonverbal modes of communication, and reciprocated smiles. Her interaction style is not consistent with a diagnosis on the autism spectrum."

Okay, so the neuropsych said that she does have some sensory issues, and OT would help with that. I have her in OT now, and she loves it. She goes M, W, and Friday. The recommended twice a week, but I added a day at another place because she loved going there too. I got the eval from one of the OT's and it says (under physical examination) Cooperative, Alert, and she checked "Other" and put, "Fair-eye contact throughout evaluation. Hand flapping demonstrated with excitement one time. Charlotte talking throughout evaluation, however speech not consistenly directed toward therapist." I have noticed this with my daughter as well...but it's so confusing to me because one day...everything the neuropsych saw, is what I see as well...and then the very next day, she can exhibit poor eye contact, not answer questions...etc, etc. The OT said the same thing...and that she had the neuropsych drop in on one of their sessions to observe and the neuropsych said..."I did not see any of this in my evaluation with her." I guess she wasn't making very good eye contact and she was off-topic. The OT told me the neuropsych said they would keep an eye on it and maybe we'd need to re-evaluate her in a year. The thing is, if she had aspergers or autism, would it just come and go like that? I'm wondering if she needs to have an MRI to see if there is anything else going on (something that could be medically wrong).

BTW, I've wondered about aspergers in regards to myself. I had a horrible time growing up in regards to social situations and would do things like pace back and forth in my room, hum in the movie theatre (in order to finish my "sequence" of hums, which of course never happened), eat lunch in the bathroom because the cafeteria was too loud...list goes on and on. I wonder if it was just a straight sensory thing with me as well...or if it's something more?

Welcome!

I forgot to add, that the neuropsych would do things like...

have a conversation with Charlotte and then suddenly make a scary face and look at the ground. She said that Charlotte turned her head around immediately to see what she was looking at. She said that if she had Autism, that she may have to point to where she was looking...or that sometimes that won't even work...she would have had to walk over and show her.

What do you guys think of all this? She said she did a few nonverbal gestures like that, and she caught on to every one of them.

Thank you for welcoming me.

Of course. We're one big happy forum here!

That's really good to hear.

I've been driving myself crazy lately. I actually found this website this summer, before my daughter's eval. I accepted that she was going to be diagnosed with Aspergers and found this forum and it made me really proud actually. I knew she'd be okay....then after the eval, it through me for a loop again, but the sensory stuff actually made more sense to me...so I accepted that...now it's back to "well, it's possibly aspergers." I'm okay with NT. I'm okay with Autism. I'm okay with Aspergers. What I don't do well with is complete uncertainty. I just want to do the right thing...and provide her with the best opportunities...and most of all, I want her to feel loved and accepted by everyone around her. She's my whole world.

Pardon all my spelling errors.

Welcome greetings to the Wrong Planet community, Blueskygirl.

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Thank you!

Does anyone have thoughts on my daughter? Can the lack of eye-contact be just a sensory issue? Like I said, it's completely inconsistent, it seems. The OT said that after she went in one of her cloth tunnels (she really liked that), and came out the other side, she made eye contact, was focused throughout the session...etc, etc. What about those test scores? Would she score that high on theory of mind and affect recognition if she was on the spectrum? I just don't know any more. I feel like I'm focusing too much on this now.

Also, any thoughts on my pacing? I never do it in front of people...normally at night, while alone in my room. I don't know if it's an anxiety thing or more. It's when I'm really thinking about something.

Welcome!