Today we drove to Savannah to see the behavior Speacialist, Dr. Greenburg. We were taken back in five mins and stayed for two hours. When we left our heads were spinning even though the our Babies Can't Wait Lady, Miriam, had prepeared us for the visit ( I shudder to think what we would have done without her) We have a diagnosis... Autism Spectrual Disorder.... On a scale from 0 to 60 (0 being no problems, 60 being severe) he is a 43. Dr Greenburg said that we are going to start agressive speech therepy and really push the sign language. She wants everyone to at least learn basic sign language and use it religiously.
We are supposed to see a neurologist and a psycologist in the lext three months to look for underlying causes for the ASD and we will also see Dr Greenburg some more. She is doing this to try to pinpoint exactly what kind of Autistic Spectral Disorder he has so we can better treat him and also have an idea of long term and affects and also of heredity. She also checked out Camille while we were there (she is fine and developing great)..
I really like Dr Greenburg, she is about fifty years old and has ADD (which I do too) She really observed Jackson well and found out (without my help) that the only time he makes eye contact is with the person singing. It jsut seemed like after she observed him, she just picked up on so many things. He has some sensory issues.
I like how she explained the ASD.. That the average person is like a Dell computer..When you hook it up, it has windows already on it and is ready to go..She said the average baby is like that, they understand tone and facial expressions and like to share experiences with other people and seek out company.....People with ASD are computers with DOS (dashes and dots). We have to take extra time to manualy imput everything, but it is doable.
She is expecting with the speech therepy for his score to go down alot in the next three months, if it doesn't then we are not using the right approach and we will try something different.
She said that with him being so young that we could do alot of good and we don't have a day to lose..
It really was great to get some concrete answers but my head is spinning. I have a direction to go in now at least... I went strait to Books A Million and bought The Everything Book of Sign Language... Wish me Luck!
We are supposed to see a neurologist and a psycologist in the lext three months to look for underlying causes for the ASD and we will also see Dr Greenburg some more. She is doing this to try to pinpoint exactly what kind of Autistic Spectral Disorder he has so we can better treat him and also have an idea of long term and affects and also of heredity. She also checked out Camille while we were there (she is fine and developing great)..
I really like Dr Greenburg, she is about fifty years old and has ADD (which I do too) She really observed Jackson well and found out (without my help) that the only time he makes eye contact is with the person singing. It jsut seemed like after she observed him, she just picked up on so many things. He has some sensory issues.
I like how she explained the ASD.. That the average person is like a Dell computer..When you hook it up, it has windows already on it and is ready to go..She said the average baby is like that, they understand tone and facial expressions and like to share experiences with other people and seek out company.....People with ASD are computers with DOS (dashes and dots). We have to take extra time to manualy imput everything, but it is doable.
She is expecting with the speech therepy for his score to go down alot in the next three months, if it doesn't then we are not using the right approach and we will try something different.
She said that with him being so young that we could do alot of good and we don't have a day to lose..
It really was great to get some concrete answers but my head is spinning. I have a direction to go in now at least... I went strait to Books A Million and bought The Everything Book of Sign Language... Wish me Luck!