All About Autism

[tyeogh]

My experience with ARC is that no diagnosis is needed. They have their own assessors to determine if your child is suitable. These assessors do not provide a ASD diagnosis. No other documents are needed.


EIPIC centres do not need a formal diagnosis for entry. You may have been misinformed. You only need a ASD diagnosis for Pathlight primary.

[Snow24]

Hi Tyeogh


Thanks for sharing. I am unsure upon securing a vacancy in an Eipic centre would they demand for a psychologist report and formal ASD diagnosis.Currently, I was Informed as long as the child development unit do a referral to the SG Enable they will process the Eipic centre application as per what the doctor indicated with no formal ASD dignosis.

I don’t know why the doctors keep asking us to send the child for formal dignosis of ASD and IQ assessment test.

Do I need to have a formal ASD dignosis rest when applying for admission into Pathlight? Even for the P1 preparatory class also need to have the formal ASD diagnosis.

[tyeogh]

Because that is the only scientific way to find out?


You need a ASD and IQ diagnosis with a certain validity period in your application to Pathlight Primary. See their website for details.

[scang]

you need a formal assessment to assess if the child needs to or can be delayed from going to P1 for a year or two.


If no formal assessment, then the child has to start P1 in mainstream school in the year the child turns 7.

So no formal assessment needed before the child turns 6 years of age based on calendar year, and most EIPIC centre do not require any formal assessment.

All EIPIC centre has their own assessor or panel of assessors to determine the child’s suitability to be in that EIPIC centre for the particular program.

[pinkamoon]

tyeogh:

Because that is the only scientific way to find out?


You need a ASD and IQ diagnosis with a certain validity period in your application to Pathlight Primary. See their website for details.

Hi all,
Just sharing about the IQ score and PL application. My son did have an ASD diagnosis but he was not given an IQ score for his diagnosis at 5 years old because his verbal reasoning skills was found to be at 9 percentile. Other scores were not consistent too, some very high, others low so the psychologist could not give him a score. Nonetheless, he did make it through the interview and was offered a place which we did not take up because I chose to go for defer him for another year.

So, don't worry about not getting an IQ score. Just submit the first IQ test and don't bother to get another IQ test. 1 is enough.

[Couragemom]

Hi Snow24,


For rainbow centre eipic, it is mandatory to submit a formal ASD assessment report within 6 months after being accepted into their program (queuing to get in that time no need the report, the PD letter will suffice).

The reason for asking for a formal psychologist assessment report is to ensure that your child is placed in the right program as Rainbow offers both general (for GDD, CP or DS child) and ASD class. The assessment done by their own panel of therapists/teachers and psychologist is more to determine the specific weaknesses the child have and to place him or her in the most appropriate class and to determine whether 1-to-1 is needed for therapies like OT and ST.

Try to call the specific eipic that you are aiming for your son and talk direct to the eipic department staff to ask if the centre needs the ASD report AFTER your son has been accepted.

[Autumnleaf]

Hello, back again to ask for some opinion with experienced parents that have gone through formal screening with their child.


Last Friday my son completed his last assessment, WISC -V, WIAAT, ASDS. We are waiting for the report which we will get on the 26th.

Just curious, for the ASDS, It was just a form I had to fill and indicate whether the 50 or so symptoms are observed in my child.

After I submitted the form to the physcolpgist, we went through and she did change quite a few… As during her time interacting with my son, she found he is able to reply and interact etc.

Curious though as me and Hb find that on day to day my sons give and take interaction with people is lacking evidently, though not always. As in, often when people greet him, he fails to respond or does not even look at them when we make him respond. So me and Hb wonder in such case, when filling the forms, is it the observation of that 2 hrs that is a better gage, or the everyday observation that me and Hb had observed?

[tyeogh]

The 2 hours interaction is for the psychologist to assess, out of which it will generate two reports (or one, can’t remember). The questionaire is for the parents to complete, out of which it will generate one report. You should fill it with your observation of your child on a day to day basis. The psychologist helps change your answers for accuracy because some questions are very detailed and are looking for a specific answer. The findings from these reports are studied, explained and used to derive a conclusion.

[tyeogh]

Autumnleaf,

Did you get a headache after completing your questionaire? For me, the psychologist quizzed me on every question and filled it in herself. 70+ questions over 2 hours!!

I came out groggy. :frustrated:

[Autumnleaf]

Tyeogh, I filled it out myself while the dr was conducting the WIAAT with my son. It wasn’t too bad but coz some of the behaviors listed were interpreted differently ERC which after she explained and changed I understood. But there were a couple that she changed based on her clinical observation that I feel a bit unsure coz its like dismissing our day to day observation.

Well that’s was for the Asperger Sydrome Diagnostic Scale. For the Behaivioral Inteventory executive function (BRIEF) form, I had to pass one to my DS form teacher, fill one my self and my DS filled out too…

It sounds crazy and foolish, but I hope something is picked up. Just so tired of being worked up over my DS compulsive behavior and caning him almost every other day till his back side tough like leather liao!
Feel bad and worried for him, also wish to understand him more.