I am fairly new the site. I have found this site very interesting. It has given me a lot of ideas to help my 4 year old son who has Asperger's.

There are a lot of things I see that I don't quit understand and was hoping someone could help me out.

1. What is OT?

2. Was is an ABA Program?

3. What is a Weighted Blanket and what purpose does it serve?

4. What is SID?

5. What is DMG?

I appreciate any help I can get to progress my son in the mainstream of life.

TexasMommy!

I'll do what I can to define those terms:

OT- Occupational Therapy
ABA- Applied Behavioral Analysis, applied to children with autism by O.Ivar Lovaas in the sixties. Sometimes called the Lovaas method.
Weighted blanket- A quilted blanket with weights sewn into it (mine are filled with polybeads 8#s of them). Some children seek deep pressure and these blankets can help with that.
SID- Sensory Intergration Disorder

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Thank you so much for your help. That clears up a lot.

DMG is Di-Methyl-Glycine. It comes in sublingual tablets, powder and capsule forms. Dr Rimland discusses its use on his autism site.

Asperger's is a valid Dx for children 12 and older according to the experts in this field- as the child gets older you can see/ discover variables or resolution of learning difficulties, developmental delays, and medical causes for what seems to be autism or Asperger's until that age. There are many disorders that mimic and/or cause autistic like behaviors.

Can you give me some examples of medical issues that can make you think it's Asperger's?

Similar Disorders:
There are also a number of other disorders that can sometimes mimic autism and can cause misdiagnoses to occur. Unlike autism, many of those other conditions and disorders are curable. Some of these include: early childhood trauma, deafness, glactosemia, Heller’s Disease, LKS, PKU, Tourette’s Syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, semantic-pragmatic speech disorder, childhood aphasia, Celiac’s disease, fragile-x syndrome, ADD and ADHD, hyperlexia, manic depression (bi-polar disorder), Angelman syndrome, Smith-Magenis Syndrome, developmental apraxia of speech, lactic acidosis, Irlen Syndrom, Turner’s syndrome, Carnitine deficiency, and numerous others may cause some or most of the symptoms that are seen in autism. You should be careful to make sure that these other possibilities are ruled out when a diagnosis of autism is considered. "

Thank you for the tips....i will check into these further.

Similar Disorders:
There are also a number of other disorders that can sometimes mimic autism and can cause misdiagnoses to occur. Unlike autism, many of those other conditions and disorders are curable. Some of these include: early childhood trauma, deafness, glactosemia, Heller’s Disease, LKS, PKU, Tourette’s Syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, semantic-pragmatic speech disorder, childhood aphasia, Celiac’s disease, fragile-x syndrome, ADD and ADHD, hyperlexia, manic depression (bi-polar disorder), Angelman syndrome, Smith-Magenis Syndrome, developmental apraxia of speech, lactic acidosis, Irlen Syndrom, Turner’s syndrome, Carnitine deficiency, and numerous others may cause some or most of the symptoms that are seen in autism. You should be careful to make sure that these other possibilities are ruled out when a diagnosis of autism is considered. "

I am wondering what category of those listed my 8-year-old son may or may not fit into. Sometimes I think he is just a normal kid, who can be a bit odd. Here are the things I have noticed.
1-Some speech delay - mostly receptive - difficulty processing language from others
2-transition difficulties - has trouble doing multi-step tasks or moving from one thing to another
3-at a younger age - tantrums or crashing into things when frustrated
4- becoming VERY frustrated when he doesn't do things perfect
5- garbly language when frustrated - goes into nonsense talk and sound effects when frustrated and in unstructured social situations
6- has difficulty making friends - kids think he is "weird" at times
7 - rocks when watching tv
8 - becomes overly obsessed with a single interest - right now - Star Wars and comic books and frequently recites movie lines and does sound effect sounds from those movies
9 - at top of his class verbally/reading/writing - often talks and thinks like an adult with other adults and devolves with peers into talk like "you think I'm a stupidhead with diapers on my head?" nonsense talk

I hope I have posted this correctly - please help if you read this!!!!!