Regression??? - Autism Spectrum Message Board

pingu06 · 06-04-2006, 01:44 PM

My son is 9 and has ahd a large regression since christmas.Has been on risperdal for 5 yrs and appears to have stopped working.Trying Aripiprazole at moment with the delightful side effect of insomnia..Has anyone got siminlar things going on with their child???
We are doing the rounds with the Psychiatrist who has said he is stumped and is just using A as a guinea pig.

The only thing that changed was school in oct 2 months before the regression and its an autistic unit attatched to mainstream.

Any suggestions gratefully welcomed

Liz Cook · 06-04-2006, 09:27 PM

have you talked to the school? of course i am sure you have

but there might be something going on in the class that has him upset or sometimes you can get staff that think they dont have to follow the way a program is written in order to make short cuts never mind that our kids need consistancy most and that those programs are written the way they are written for a reason. maybe a second opinion might help as far as the psychiatrist goes. as far as my son goes though and this is not the case every time... he goes through a defiant stage and has a small regressive time then starts to trudge on a head... the only time he seems to make any significant gains is after he has tried his hardest to not do something... and he tries really hard not to do things

and has his time to let us know that he objects to life in general because we are asking him to do things and after he finally figures out we are not backing down then he moves on and does what he is suppose to do.

we had trouble with one ABA instructor (dont know if you have ABA there but generally here they are people who work in the home with your children one on one. they work on specific goals and do the same thing over and over ever day until the kids get it.) anyhow, she kept giving in to isaac's tantrums and at the end of her short time with us she was having to leave early several times a week because isaac refused to work with her. he only got worse about that until we got a new instructor who knew what he was up to

perhaps at the new school someone is acting like that... maybe they think that your son needs a little slack and he has learned that he can get away with anything if he acts up enough... just an idea...

my son might not be so hot socially but he is the KING of manipulation

a direction to look for the moment anyhow. you might need to meet with the school and make a plan of how to treat some of his behaviors so that everyone is acting the same towards any unwanted behaviors. this might help... might not if its medical though. wish i could be more help

G-Luck, though!

pingu06 · 06-05-2006, 05:46 AM

thanks for the reply.Andrew was always very sociable and was treated firm ly cos like you said he was very good at "TRYING IT ON".The psychiatrist has diagnosed clinical depression but Prozac has not eliminated all symptoms.They also think may be his baby sister increasing social demands??
Am stumped at moment and frustrated he is moving to a severe learning dis school in september.
Provision in UK very poor so will keep plodding on

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Liz Cook · 06-05-2006, 07:51 AM

isaac has a new brother that is only 3 months old and i dont think that he is having more social demands because of him but he is DEFINATELY going through sibling rivalary

as i type this isaac was just yelling and squishing his brother's belly and had to be cued to stop

so yeah, isaac is sick of the wiggly noisey twerp getting his mommies attention

that might have something to do with the attitude change too. and that is a change that is not going to resolve itself for him... cant get rid of a sibling to make him feel better, so we spend a lot of time consoling isaac and letting him know how proud we are of him and what a good job he is doing when he is tolerant of tristan's cries, or when he waits until i am done feeding his brother to get what he wants...

i wish you the best of luck and hopefully in the UK the "professionals" will realize that its better to get on the ball and treat while our kids are young as opposed to having to treat them intensely as adults for the rest of their lives!

Brandiof4 · 06-05-2006, 11:21 AM

It happened by accident, but my 5 year old was regressing a couple of months ago and me being 8 month pregnant, I also have 7 and 2 year old boys, my speach therapist was on a vacation, Cadence was not getting any of his normal routines, I was really worried that he would have a huge set back, but insted he started trying to interact with us on his own! WOW. I don't know if he was boared or what but the break changed him for the better. The best thing that happened to our family was having our other children, It brought a normalnis to our family and my other kids don't understand Autisum so they don't give any speacial treatment and Cadence really needed that as well. We also know insomnia the only way I have luck is waking him up early in the morning @ 5-6am and buying night toys like the thing that lights up the room with stars and the little hand held toy that lights and spins or glow in the dark toys. I also put a stereo in my sons room and played his favorite music down really low