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Our son repeated kinder, and this is what happened
When our first started kinder, it was a no-brainer: a July baby, she was 4.5 years old when she started, making her the ideal age of 5.5 when she started school. Although she struggled at home with (then undiagnosed) autism, she was a quiet achiever at kinder with ample social skills and an aptitude for […]
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What’s in a diagnosis?
Today we got the final verdict from our 8-year-old’s paediatrician: he diagnosed Level 2 Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD). As he began filling out forms to provide to NDIS and Centrelink, I quietly rejoiced. Something is off I first noticed something was off when our firstborn was around 15 months old. […]
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