Your kid seems exactly like my daughter (who turned 4 a week ago). Does your kids still struggle with speech? I signed up my daughter for a psychological+speech evaluation tomorrow, and was surprised when many of the psychologist’s initial questions hinted on autism diagnosis—after I made it repeatedly clear in several questionnaires that she doesn’t meet the standard criteria (very social, elaborate pretend play, no stimming …).
From my perspective, after a long plateau between ages like 3.0-4.25, he started making very noticeable progress again in the past few months, which is really great, a big relief.
From the perspective of someone who has just met him, he’s shockingly behind his age level in speech and language. I believe he has scored as low as 1st-percentile in recent language assessments.
Yeah, we’re also getting constantly questioned about autism despite his having no sensory sensitivity, lots of pretend play, teddy bears, sharing jokes, sociality, and so on. We’re getting that from both the school IEP people (he has publicly-provided speech therapy for 30min/week, the speech therapist is wonderful but everyone else on the IEP committee is a nightmare), and the doctor’s office. We have a couple in-person appointments coming up in the next few months with specialists who should be more qualified—see how they go. I also note that, since I wrote this, Steve Camarata now has a podcast series in addition to his book, which my wife & I find very helpful and somewhat therapeutic. We also got a lot out of a paid video consultation session with his wife Mary last winter.
Thanks! We’re just beginning the IEP journey, I’ve seldom heard a good thing about the committee. Parenthood is full of surprises—not so long ago, I’ve thought of myself as a seasoned parent, having two older kids. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Your kid seems exactly like my daughter (who turned 4 a week ago). Does your kids still struggle with speech? I signed up my daughter for a psychological+speech evaluation tomorrow, and was surprised when many of the psychologist’s initial questions hinted on autism diagnosis—after I made it repeatedly clear in several questionnaires that she doesn’t meet the standard criteria (very social, elaborate pretend play, no stimming …).
From my perspective, after a long plateau between ages like 3.0-4.25, he started making very noticeable progress again in the past few months, which is really great, a big relief.
From the perspective of someone who has just met him, he’s shockingly behind his age level in speech and language. I believe he has scored as low as 1st-percentile in recent language assessments.
Yeah, we’re also getting constantly questioned about autism despite his having no sensory sensitivity, lots of pretend play, teddy bears, sharing jokes, sociality, and so on. We’re getting that from both the school IEP people (he has publicly-provided speech therapy for 30min/week, the speech therapist is wonderful but everyone else on the IEP committee is a nightmare), and the doctor’s office. We have a couple in-person appointments coming up in the next few months with specialists who should be more qualified—see how they go. I also note that, since I wrote this, Steve Camarata now has a podcast series in addition to his book, which my wife & I find very helpful and somewhat therapeutic. We also got a lot out of a paid video consultation session with his wife Mary last winter.
Thanks! We’re just beginning the IEP journey, I’ve seldom heard a good thing about the committee. Parenthood is full of surprises—not so long ago, I’ve thought of myself as a seasoned parent, having two older kids. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯