I wrote last year about our youngest son and his diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder. You would think, being the parents of a child with learning disabilities (and a syndrome associated with autism) as well as a highly intelligent eldest child with aspergers/high functioning autism, that we could have spotted it a mile off. But the reality is, just as I tell the professionals, every child is different, every child presents differently.
So Jules has an official diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome (now commonly known as high functioning autism). His issues are very much around anxiety and he has speech and language and executive functioning difficulties which in a nutshell have meant that transition to a huge London high school from a small suburban primary was overwhelming for him.
