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Willa
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Posted: March 30 2006 at 9:51pm \| IP Logged

If you have a child who needs interventions for social skills because of Asperger's or NLD, where do you go for these kinds of therapies? My special needs son has a speech therapist and an OT, but neither of these seems to be specifically focused on non-verbal social pragmatics, and I think eventually he will need that.

Also, how did you intitially get a child evaluated for AS or NLD?

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Posted: March 30 2006 at 10:27pm \| IP Logged

Willa, when I was a speech path, I did work on some of these things with kids. I worked with one little boy who had Asperger's and we had social/pragmatics goals on his IEP under speech. I would go out to recess with him and the other kindergartener's and help him interact with the other kids. I loved that part of my job. It was much more gratifying to me than working on correct articulation of "s" or "r".

You may ask your speech path if this is something that can be addressed in therapy.

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Posted: March 30 2006 at 11:08pm \| IP Logged

I just PM'd you some more info on this.

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Willa
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Posted: March 31 2006 at 1:59pm \| IP Logged

Thanks, Courtney!
I will put pragmatics on AIdan's IEP which is coming up.
We worked last year on "hello" and "goodbye" type things and he is excellent at that now but from "hello" he seems to go into Aidan-land... wants to keep the conversation going but drags in miscellaneous things about NFL quarterbacks, or whatever. SO cute but I realize he is going to need more skills in order to interact more constructively. He also has some difficulties with his modulation and with eye contact. I'm glad to know ST is the place to start, anyway

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