Progress Being Made

This house has been an absolute mess the past week. While I don't mean physically messy, I do mean everyone is just a hot mess. My son has had longer and more volatile meltdowns, and the emotional & verbal abuse has taken its toll. I finally said enough is enough and took him in to a crisis therapist last week. We saw very little change from that, but we did get an appointment made with his regular therapist. That appointment was today.

Normally, my son gets to see his therapist without me. However, I wanted to make sure my son didn't try to tell his therapist that everything was good. I had recordings and text messages that my son had sent me when he was angry and refusing to implement his new calm down plan. We conversed in depth on everything. The therapist decided that my son definitely qualified for the SED Waiver, which will grant us KanCare for case management services. In addition, we were given information we needed to get my son prepared for an IEP evaluation at school, speech therapy, and a meeting with the Child Development specialists at KU Medical Center.

However, my son was also able to understand several things and I think some things really started to sink in today.

• He realized that he cannot determine emotions very well, especially if someone is making faces.
• He realized that he has no recollection of what he actually does during a meltdown.
• He realized how hurtful he is during his meltdown.
• He realized that most people have no problems explaining how they get an answer, or why a character acted the way they did in a story.

These are some KEY aspects to Asperger's. We are hoping that the new case management plan will help him with his anxiety and anger, but we also hope that our push for the IEP and Dev Ped at KU will give us more support.