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Worried about 2yo daughter

liamw879

Hi I'm new here after finding this website on google.

My daughter is 2 years old and I'm not with her mother anymore. She had meningitis at 3 months old. So she has had every follow up check from hearing to speech since that time.

I didn't see my daughter for nearly 2 years afterwards. So I'm just getting used to seeing her more again on my own. Basically my concern is that she has autism and that I'm the only person to have recognised this!

I wrote a list of the things that I have noticein every time that I see her ranging from no eye contact to repeating the same nursery rhymes over and over.

I feel that I'm in a bad situation because her mother and me don't really get along and she never tells me anything. So does anybody know a way to go about it without arguments about how I'm wrong When really I'm very concerned and know it needs to be tackled early! 

Thanks x

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  • It sounds as though you are in a really tricky situation and are clearly very worried about your daughter. I think the best thing to do here is:

    (1) contact your daughters health visitor - they are usually based at your local health centre. explain your concerns and request they complete their 2 year check (development assessment) and 'chat' assessment. If they recognise the same behaviours / concerns they will discuss with mother about referrals on to local teams for further assessment (usually a speech and language therapist and paediatrician - specialist children's doctor). 

    (2) quickly enrole her in a day nursery. Staff there can play the impartial role between you and your daughters mother. They will quickly identify the behaviours you describe if she exhibits them in their setting and have a duty to feedback their concerns to parents and seek advice from Area Special Educational Needs CoOrdinators (SENCO). Make sure you build your own relationship with the nursery staff at pick up / drop offs even if only once a week and liaise with them by telephone. it is usually really helpful to arrange regulat meetings between both parents and nursery staff to openly discuss progress and concerns. Be involved as much as you can. 

    Hope this is useful?

    linzi 

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  • It sounds as though you are in a really tricky situation and are clearly very worried about your daughter. I think the best thing to do here is:

    (1) contact your daughters health visitor - they are usually based at your local health centre. explain your concerns and request they complete their 2 year check (development assessment) and 'chat' assessment. If they recognise the same behaviours / concerns they will discuss with mother about referrals on to local teams for further assessment (usually a speech and language therapist and paediatrician - specialist children's doctor). 

    (2) quickly enrole her in a day nursery. Staff there can play the impartial role between you and your daughters mother. They will quickly identify the behaviours you describe if she exhibits them in their setting and have a duty to feedback their concerns to parents and seek advice from Area Special Educational Needs CoOrdinators (SENCO). Make sure you build your own relationship with the nursery staff at pick up / drop offs even if only once a week and liaise with them by telephone. it is usually really helpful to arrange regulat meetings between both parents and nursery staff to openly discuss progress and concerns. Be involved as much as you can. 

    Hope this is useful?

    linzi 

    [advertising removed]

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