Black Sheep Press

This week we M was evaluated by the area educational psychologist. She said that he had made phenomenal progress and that in some ways it felt like she was looking at a totally different boy. I was pleased to hear that she could see the benefits of the sensory adaptions/diet and home environment and that she felt that we had a very good working relationship with the school. M is beginning to control his stims, no doubt helped by the sensory diet, which begins with, deep brushing, massage and blanket rolling each morning.

The Ed psych felt on one hand M does not fit the triad of impairments for autism, not just because of his vivid imagination, but the way in which he applies it. She did feel however that his speech development showed clear autistic features, that would fit with semantic pragmatic disorder. M does not have good social communication skills and struggles to say hello, goodbye and thank you at times. We have come a long way in terms of receptive and expressive language, but his speech can still be very functional and he often misses the little nuances and changes in tone, that we pick up in general conversation.

M's speech and language therapist, is working on his pragmatic skills using programmes from Black sheep press.
http://www.blacksheeppress.co.uk/cgi-bin/ss000001.pl?PR=-1&SS=listening&TB=A
There are some excellent games and resources here, although they are designed for schools and speech therapy.