(Advice needed please help )28 month old son

Hi i am a mother of 4 children ages 9,8,5 and 28 months . My youngest Dylan is 28 months old and recently i have been asked by several mothers at the school as well as my own mum if i had considered having him tested for Autism ? I hadnt thought about it up till now as i had put his slow development down to lazyness as he has 2 brothers and a sister to run about after him . 

The most obvious thing is his total lack of speech ! he has lots of different grunts and noises but no words at all .He has a few traits which i thought nothing off but now im questioning them , he plays with duplo bricks but has to organise them into color groups and place them on the board in orders and if you mess it up or put a brick of different color in wrong place he loses it . He hates eye contact with others even relatives , he hates having things such as stickers put on him and now recently these horrific temper tantrums have began .

The temper tantrums are awful he will scream and throw himslef down kicking and punching he doesnt care if he hurts himself . Today he kicked off because he wasnt allowed in the classroom while picking his brother up from school . I tried to pick him up but he was kicking and punching i had to grab his arm to stop him from smashing his head of the ground and its left marks on his arm Frown i feel awful and it was the scariest thing to go through .

I honestly dont know what to do or where to go for help can anyone point me in the right direction or do you think this is all just the terrible 2's ?

Thanks in advance 

Worried mum x

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  • Hi - the pecs will be gd to help with your holiday.  My son went to speech therapy + sometimes that's what leads to the assessment process.  They notice more than the lack of speech.  My son didn't talk till he was 5, altho he understood single words + short phrases + recognised things of interest, such as food, by the pics on the labels.  When he did speak he sd a short phrase.  His pronounciation was quite poor at 1st but improved with more speech therapy.  I'll be interested to hear how things progress.  Good luck with everything.

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  • Hi - the pecs will be gd to help with your holiday.  My son went to speech therapy + sometimes that's what leads to the assessment process.  They notice more than the lack of speech.  My son didn't talk till he was 5, altho he understood single words + short phrases + recognised things of interest, such as food, by the pics on the labels.  When he did speak he sd a short phrase.  His pronounciation was quite poor at 1st but improved with more speech therapy.  I'll be interested to hear how things progress.  Good luck with everything.

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