Took James to LS this morning. Normally he does Monday and Wednesday, but we arranged for him to go today as a casual as he is being assessed by the child development team.
We got there at 8:35 and I saw one of them there already in the office interviewing the head teacher.
I did some playing with James with some farm animals and fences. He just wanted to play with the fences mainly. He did get some animals and smashed their faces together.
Took him into the mat room where there were balloons and fly swatters. I tried playing with him and got him to hit the balloons a bit. While bouncing a balloon at him I hit a little blonde poppet on the head 'hey you got me!' she said so I made a game with her out of it and another littlie joined in and they were having fun hitting the balloons towards me, while this was happening James was looking vacant and spinning around a bit.
James got a balloon and tried squashing it.
I then gave James cuddles and kisses and we left and waved to him through the window. By then two CDT people were there and they were observing this.
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So we just went to Pukitiro for a few hours. here's what I posted on another site:
"My wife and I just went and spent a few hrs with the Paediatricians who have been assessing my son, and they gave us the diagnosis of 'classic' Autism for James. Which was what I guess I expected and somewhat of a relief to be honest.
It provides us with some affirmation and means others have something to consider. It's hard when people say things like 'There's nothing wrong with him' - when he can't talk or interact normally with people.
Afterwards we went to the local Cafe and read through the material the Paediatricians had given us. I was fine and feeling OK with this until I came to a page with a picture of a teenager lying back in a Hammock. He is about 18, and is wearing a red polo shirt like James wears to little school. He has short dark hair. His Mum is reaching out and stroking his head and he is looking at her smiling and touching her arm. But what gets me is the way he is obviously Autistic, just the angle of his head tilted back and to one side, and the way he is smiling. And the fact he is handsome, just like my little boy.
James has everything else in his favour, he is good looking, healthy, tall, well built...but for his autism what might have been... :-(
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