I have a grandson,4, that I need help with! He is a wonderful, loving boy, buy seems to be experiencing "mis-fires" when someone is talking to him or asking him to do something. He has been observed by a team from the local grade school, being checked for Autism. What they did was set items down and watch his reaction/response to said object. They would have him pick certain things up, etc. What concerns me is that while I am keeping him, which we love, he seems a lot of the time not to understand what we are asking/telling him to do. Example: "....., would you please hand me your bag of clothes, a certain toy and so on." He will stand there, just looking, if we point out where it is, he seems not to understand. We want to know how to cope, work properly with and understand what is happening! Any advice you may have on this would be so appreciated! We want to do what is best for him within our responsibilities whild having him over. Thank you so kindy and may God bless
Hi T.!
I bet it's hard. My nephew is autistic and my sister-n-law goes thru alot. But, if you could, give me a call
R. ###-###-####. I may beable to help you out.
Somethings my sister-n-law told me that has helped her out.
R.
Married, with a little girl who is six.
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I would suggest looking into food allergies. it is absolutely amazing what a food sensitivity/allergy can do to a child. A must-read is "Is This Your Child?" by Dr. Doris Rapp.
I have a child who becomes incapable of following directions, keeping eye-contact or controlling his behavior if he has any wheat, dairy or Red Dye 40 . But when he doesn't have any of those substances, he is well-behaved, precociously intelligent, fully cognizant, and very sweet. Understanding his reaction to certain foods has really made a WORLD of difference and is WELL WORTH any efforts.
Is he speech delayed or does he just not seem to recognize what you are asking him to do? Does he play with toys in different ways, i.e. turnig cars upside down just to spin the wheels? Does he walk on his tippy toes? I know that it is hard to understand what to do and how to handle the situation. The one piece of advice that I can give you is to be patient and try not to expect too much from him. Work with him on using words and tell him what everything is. The best possible place for him to be is with you! He may need some occupational therapy to help, but wait and see what the results of the evaluation are. The schools have wonderful programs in place to help autistic children in most school districts. My nephew has done VERY well in the Keller ISD working through their program and has made GREAT strides since September. Godo luck to you and please PM me if you have any questions. Just keep in mind how frustrating life is for the child whose mind works a little differently.
It sounds like he has autism to me. I should know too. It might be that he has a type of autism known as asperger's syndrome, which is what my 16 year old son was diagnosed with when he was 7.
First of all, don't be afraid, it is not like the commercials they used to run where the child sits and shakes his hands and that is all he does, is pretty much unreachable otherwise. Does your grandson suddenly regain his wherewithal when something that he loves starts to happen? My son would act deaf until barney or shiningtime station's intro music would start. He'd run into the living room from two rooms away! It was so vexing to me at the time- i had his hearing checked out really thoroughly because autism didn't occur to me.i'd been watching the tv ads about it.
You have a good source of info at your fingertips. Just google either asperger's syndrome or autism, there are so many sights, and written in realspeak, not docspeak, so we can understand what we're up against.
My son has had a less than outstanding career at school ,and i blame the school's staff for that. On the bright side, which is what i want you to know about, he is astonishingly intelligent about mechanical things, and especially electronics. I mean astonishing for a college attending, 'normal' person, he's that good at it.
I now home school and dylan is thriving.
If i'm wrong about the autism, then i hope things get better and y'all find the solution. In the meantime you've learned about something that is on the rise and it's sure you'll run into it in your travels. If it turns out that he does have autism or asperger's, it's best to be armed, and start asap.
God bless! And god bless your grandson especially.
