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I have 2 children and I am also AS myself. My nearly 4 yr old son is HFA/LFA borderline. My daughter has always been normal with quirks (I am not sure AS or copying behaviors). Well I take my son to lots of therapists ect to help him. I want him to be ok within himself in the long term. His speech and his Occupational therapist has suggested that my daughter is brighter then anyone thay have seen at her age.

She is 2 but was 3 months early. She is talking full sentences, can recognise all the differant plane companies from the ground eg "Look Qantas plane" or "Look Rex plane" ect. She has always been very bright but she is going beyond that now. Yetserday at childcare she was asked "and you are?" She responded with "DNA"

Apparently they are slipping her in the room with the 4yr olds because she has language too advanced for the toddler room. They have only told me because she is past the kindy kids. She knows all shapes including 3D objects up to dodecahedron. She is reading simple words like cat, dog, mummy ect and can say "that number is 1, 2, 3 it is higher ther 9, 8" she cant count past 10 but obviously knows the principle.


Where do i go from here?

I love how nobody ever responds to me. I am not even mainstream enough for the AS/ASD community.






I suck.

WOW!

I'd say just to feed her mind. Every child is a "sponge" and the more things that she experiences, the bigger that brain will grow I think the trick is to always be aware of her emotional maturity. She will always still be her chronological age in that regard.

My oldest who is now almost 13, was/is "scary smart." She knew the order of the planets at 6yo. Could also remember the names of the dinosaurs (even the ones that "didn't exist" when I was her age) and which came first: the Jurrasic or the Cretaceous period. She was not reading fluently yet; she just remembered things after we read books to her. She's a math whiz, and has the vocabulary of a college student according to her SLP from grade school.

You might consider homeschool for a few years. We homeschooled our daughter until she was 9, when the social parts of school started to become more important to her. I think she would have been bored by the typical curriculum until then. We would make weekly trips to the library so that she could answer her own questions. It was/is amazing!

Good luck

PS Some books about smart girls and women would also be good, as being a smart female isn't always appreciated as we get older. Matilda by Roald Dahl comes to mind.

I did a google for gifted testing with your country at the end. There are quite a few options on where to go. Top link looks good. There are also a few lists. I'm surprised at the Steiner, seems illegal to me as well. I'd take that as a plus though, that system is a bit full on and cultish imho.

Yeah we seem a lot backarsewards unless you're in the top two not-backarsewards cities in this country.

Even P has a lot more services then A.

Yeah, it looks that way. Of course whether or not someone can access those services remains to be seen. When I was considering moving to M I reminded myself that a lot of what looks "great" to folks who might check out our services cannot be accessed for a variety of little reasons (not intellectually disabled, not in school, not enrolled in this community group, etc.). I figure it would be similar here. We have a Steiner up the road from me. I've never been a big fan of Steiner. We have a lot of Montessori schools though.

We don't. We have a Montessori but they are booked out since birth. Unless you fit their philosophy pre pregnancy, you have little to no hope of getting in. The childcare centre at modbury Montessori has a 10 year waiting list!

The whole system is F*****

I will hopefully move us all to TAS when i get work. because mainland is F****** They have special services in every school and integrate the families at public. Even all my friends who homeschool have said that they would put their children into school in TAS.