Some schools without any reports or assessments would not be able to cater any support for your child. Child might face discrimination from peers, educators, and might not receive the kind of support he/she really needs in order to learn. If these hidden challenges were thought to be pathological, the impact would be hard on the child for sure.

However we would like to encourage parents to have consultations with professionals, as many of them can have many hidden challenges that needs alot of understanding and support. They worry that it can affect their future. In mainstream public schools, many times parents are not ready to disclose their child's diagnosis or even have their child diagnosed. That way it paves for confidence to handle other types of test situations in future. Its more empowering to focus only what the child has done really well. Let child know how well he put effort to withstand the session. Sometimes parents can defer their child for a year while building up on their gaps and needs as well as confidence and relatability to social interactions.Ĩ. We understand parents might be concerned due to the cognitive testing portion, as it can affect the school they will go to. They might miss the needs if the results are not accurate. The assessment should clarify on the child's needs, so that educators and other professionals know where to support the child in. However this can affect the assessment as some parts of it includes speech.ħ. selective mutism, you can request to allow child to write instead of speak. For children with high anxiety, you can request to sit in and accompany the child, but only for emotional support.Ħ. plushies to let the psychologist use to work with the assessment.ĥ. You can also bring things of interest eg. If child has language and can understand and follow instructions, you can provide a number of broken down steps, of what is expected.Ĥ. Familiarising the child with the setting and person, helps to reduce anxiety and uncertainty.ģ. Something that takes time for development of the child to cope with. So that it is not rushed, and the child is able to do better as the entire assessment duration can be quite long and rigorous. Have the assessment conducted in a few sessions, allowing the child to first bond with the psychologist. The medical model can support to an extent to understand hidden learning difficulties, strategies for support through guiding in a step by step manner, to understanding neurology.ġ. Majority of autistics have stepped out to help practitioners, parents to understand alot of these perspectives that might not be true. Whatever is the case, you will realize medical models focuses only on what they cannot do. Many think eye contact is a problem, but if you look at the page on eye contact you will realize that most of us do not fully just use our eyes to engage another person, I don't think anyone who finds looking at something painful feels comfortable to speak if they are forced to deal with the pain. Because of their keen and detailed observations, these interests can become a really useful skill for learning and some even future careers. Pre-occupation with narrow-interests are what geniuses and great skillsets can stem from. If you read the pages about ' Communication', you will realize that this could be how the individual is trying to communicate or express him/herself.Īnother example is 'does not play 'make believe' or 'pretend', the individual might be playing in their own way that they prefer and might not be something a typical might think of. Playing 'out of the box', 'seeing the wonders of life', or spinning an item due to sensory needs can sometimes be misunderstood. The diagram shows a few examples that might be misleading for eg.

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