I came across a annual review for myself earlier and found it quite interesting. It was from my first year at school, I was in a Speech and Language unit at the time. This was back in 1996. Quite interesting because at the time few professionals really had the view of what autism is like compared to today's standards. If they had known what they know today I would have been diagnosed with autism because of my speech delay. I was diagnosed with Asperger's last year because apparently you can "move up or down the spectrum" and you wouldn't think I had a language delay with the way I speak now. This is an interesting thing considering what all the professionals claim on the internet, particularly about Asperger's since it's based on those early years.
Without further ado, I will include extracts from this review, feel free to find your own reports and put whatever you are comfortable with (if any) about yourself as you were growing up. It would be interesting to see similarities with other people out there.
Personal and Social Development
Dylan has settled well into the unit routines and comes into school willingly. He participates in unit activities and has made good relationships with the children and staff. Dylan is a very quiet child who would rather sit back and watch before participating in activities.
Receptive Language
There are some problems with the abstract language used in subjects such as maths.
Expressive Language
Dylan's ability to speak in sentences has improved considerably since he started school. He will now give long and detailed descriptions of things that have happened or that interest him. He has acquired some quite sophisticated vocabulary and adult phrases such as "actually" which he uses appropriately. It is difficult to analyse the structure of his language accurately, due to poor intelligibility (what ever that means), but it appears to be immature rather than disordered, i.e. he uses sentences one would expect from a younger child.
Social Communication skills
Dylan tends to be a loner, preferring his own company to mixing with others. He will play alongside other children but is still developing the ability to participate as part of a group. We have worked on simple acting and role play games. Dylan's behaviour is quite immature in these activities and he needs adult guidance. Although he is generally a quiet child, he has a strong personality and can be intolerant of other children's behaviour.
Integration
Dylan integrates for playtimes with the whole school, he did not enjoy this during his first term and would remain next to the Nursery Nurse. He has now made a few friends from the other reception classes and will play quietly alongside them.
Dylan also attends a reception class with the other unit reception children from the unit and the Nursery Nurse for an art and craft afternoon. He tells me that this is too noisy.
So that's just some of the feedback from a four page document that was written up. I found it quite interesting, mainly because it's about me, I don't know if anyone else will find it even slightly interesting. See if you can't still some of your stuff on here as well. Might be useful for people to accept a diagnosis if they see similarities with the development of others on here.
Without further ado, I will include extracts from this review, feel free to find your own reports and put whatever you are comfortable with (if any) about yourself as you were growing up. It would be interesting to see similarities with other people out there.
Personal and Social Development
Dylan has settled well into the unit routines and comes into school willingly. He participates in unit activities and has made good relationships with the children and staff. Dylan is a very quiet child who would rather sit back and watch before participating in activities.
Receptive Language
There are some problems with the abstract language used in subjects such as maths.
Expressive Language
Dylan's ability to speak in sentences has improved considerably since he started school. He will now give long and detailed descriptions of things that have happened or that interest him. He has acquired some quite sophisticated vocabulary and adult phrases such as "actually" which he uses appropriately. It is difficult to analyse the structure of his language accurately, due to poor intelligibility (what ever that means), but it appears to be immature rather than disordered, i.e. he uses sentences one would expect from a younger child.
Social Communication skills
Dylan tends to be a loner, preferring his own company to mixing with others. He will play alongside other children but is still developing the ability to participate as part of a group. We have worked on simple acting and role play games. Dylan's behaviour is quite immature in these activities and he needs adult guidance. Although he is generally a quiet child, he has a strong personality and can be intolerant of other children's behaviour.
Integration
Dylan integrates for playtimes with the whole school, he did not enjoy this during his first term and would remain next to the Nursery Nurse. He has now made a few friends from the other reception classes and will play quietly alongside them.
Dylan also attends a reception class with the other unit reception children from the unit and the Nursery Nurse for an art and craft afternoon. He tells me that this is too noisy.
So that's just some of the feedback from a four page document that was written up. I found it quite interesting, mainly because it's about me, I don't know if anyone else will find it even slightly interesting. See if you can't still some of your stuff on here as well. Might be useful for people to accept a diagnosis if they see similarities with the development of others on here.
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