Did you know that autism affects 1 in 88 children? And, when you break it down by gender, 1 in 54 boys?
We officially became part of that stat this week.
We had another appointment at the Fort Worth Child Study Center where we received the results of Lochlan's autism evaluation that was done in August. The psychologist's report indicated that Lochlan's assessment results were consistent with moderate to severe autism, though our developmental pediatrician at Child Study said she feels he is more on the moderate end of that range.
But there you have it. Even though we had kind of known this already, we now have an official diagnosis. And it was still a very sobering thing to hear.
Does it change anything? Not really, I guess. We are still continuing with his ABA program and are considering taking him out of preschool in order to increase his ABA time. That's a tough call but it seems that he is not really participating well in preschool and is perhaps not getting as much benefit of being in a "normal" setting as we had hoped. I don't know yet what we will do but I just want to keep seeing Lochlan progress.
We officially became part of that stat this week.
We had another appointment at the Fort Worth Child Study Center where we received the results of Lochlan's autism evaluation that was done in August. The psychologist's report indicated that Lochlan's assessment results were consistent with moderate to severe autism, though our developmental pediatrician at Child Study said she feels he is more on the moderate end of that range.
But there you have it. Even though we had kind of known this already, we now have an official diagnosis. And it was still a very sobering thing to hear.
Does it change anything? Not really, I guess. We are still continuing with his ABA program and are considering taking him out of preschool in order to increase his ABA time. That's a tough call but it seems that he is not really participating well in preschool and is perhaps not getting as much benefit of being in a "normal" setting as we had hoped. I don't know yet what we will do but I just want to keep seeing Lochlan progress.
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