From the category archives:

Anxiety

Play Therapy – Take One

April 11, 2007

Yesterday was a very busy day in the mindless mommy household.  Not only did the kids have school but Ava was meeting with her new occupational therapist (the one contracted through the state) and Alexander was scheduled to meet with his play therapist.  I’m going to start with the play therapist appointment; it went well.  [...]

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A Great Definition of PDD-NOS

April 6, 2007

PDD-NOS stands for Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified and is a real grey area for me as someone who is new to the world of autism spectrum disorders.  I don’t read the newspaper in the morning, instead I read blogs.  One of the blogs that I regularly read is Ballastexistenz over on the autistics.org [...]

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Exploring Childhood Anxiety

April 2, 2007

There are several different types of anxiety disorders, which affect approximately 1 in 10 children, and I wanted to take some time to touch on each of them and then discuss how my son is affected.  The first type is Generalized Anxiety Disorder and the children affected with this type of anxiety are often very [...]

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ADHD and Comorbid Conditions

March 27, 2007

Dictionary.com defines comorbid as: pertaining to two diseases which occur together, such as ADHD and depression and also as: existing simultaneously with and usually independently of another medical condition ADHD isn’t always seen alone, very often there are comorbid conditions present – from sensory processing disorder to autism spectrum disorders to anxiety. In my son’s [...]

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It’s not Asperger Syndrome, It’s Anxiety

March 26, 2007

Today was our last meeting with the psychologist and the results are in – it’s not Asperger Syndrome, it is Childhood Anxiety. She feels that when his anxiety manifests it can look very Aserpger-ish but he also has many non-Asperger traits. He scored “very likely” on the Asperger Syndrome Diagnostic Scale but she said the [...]

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Update On My Son’s Evaluations

March 22, 2007

My son saw the psychologist again this morning for an IQ test. The test du jour was the WPPSI-III also known as the Weschler Preschool Primary Scale of Intelligence; this is the same test my daughter took. Evidently the age range on the test is from 2-6. The psychologist had me wait in the waiting [...]

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