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Originally Posted by Redway
What’s the nature of her difficulties if you don’t mind me asking?
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Officially ASD, PDA, some anxiety issues in recent years and she's learning disabled specifically related to language mostly. I
personally believe she may have brain injury (traumatic birth, the cord was tight around her neck for an indeterminate amount of time) and I think that most of her issues essentially come down to language and communication and associated confusion/frustration. She's a bit of an "odd case" in that she has significant learning disability in terms of "normal education" but is actually an extremely fast & proficient learner at any non-verbal task (tech use, she uses design apps proficiently, her drawing skills etc. are age approproate), high problem solving ability, and while there's significant "formal learning" and social delay there's basically no developmental delay (her likes and interests, TV and music tastes, and attitude ... lol ... are all very age appropriate for a 9 year old).
tl;dr I'm not 100% on her official diagnoses, but further investigations would be intrusive and distressing so just not worth exploring at this point. It wouldn't really change any of the approaches at present. Again might be something we explore as she approaches adulthood.