Today was our follow up with the developmental specialist. His conclusion is that Robbie does have autism, however if we had gone last year this would not be so. This year the DSM 5 came out and in it they decided to do away with the distinctions of Autism, Aspergers and PDD-NOC. All now are simply referred to as Autism or ASD. If this were not so Robbie would have been diagnosed with PDD (pervasive developmental disorder). So he is on the lower end of the spectrum and high functioning. We asked the Dr's opinion on whether or not he thought Robbie could eventually function "normally" in society and he said as long as his speech continues to improve he sees no reason why not but that he will always be a little quirky. So we are to hit speech and also ABA hard to improve his social skills. Of course this is our hope and prayer. The only thing this changes really is our insurance which will now have to cover services in clinic, however it will also make our insurance go up so it may not change much period. We are still to be on high alert for seizures and tell the neurologist of anything suspicious. He is also supposed to wear a medic alert bracelet.
A week ago we lost our in home therapists but, praise God, he is already back in with speech up by Waterford Lakes and hopefully by next week OT as well. On the same day!
We are looking hard at different centers for ABA therapy and praying God will lead us to the right one.
Both boys are happy and loving the weather and improving steadily!
I can't figure out how to put pictures on here from the ipad and the laptop screen is still busted so no pics for now :)
