Wednesday afternoon we left Megs with Gma/Gpa and took the train to Edinburgh.
The aim was to visit the offices of the Autism Treatment Trust so that Ben could have a new set of cognative assessments done. This is so he can take part in a study looking at ways to improve Working/Processing Memory.
We stopped in the Haymarket Premier Inn overnight, then kept the assessment appointment at 9 o'clock. As usual Ben first wriggled and jiggled, then went though a phase of yawning loudly and then put his head on the table and shut his eyes.
But he managed the hated reading and decoding assessments -
and then sailed through the non-verbal reasoning tests.
(this is no surprise - last time he was assessed by an Ed Pysch he was 99th centile for NVR, 30th centile for reading comprehension, 10th centile for word reading and 5th centile for Processing Memory)
We left the appointment with an ipad and instruction to spend half an hour a day completing certain apps. We go back in 8 weeks time for reassessment.
After we had finished with the assessments - there was time for slow walk back to the station, through Princess Street Gardens, calling in at the playground, and seeing a few of the sights.
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