Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi hoping someone has some advice. my son is 4 and my first baby so in all honesty I never really noticed anything unusual about his behaviour. It was brought to my attention when he was about 1 and a half that there may be something's I should mention to his health visitor. I passed on the childminders concerns mainly about his social interactions listening and speech and we got hearing tests and speech therapy etc I wasn't overly concerned as we took on board the advice by the speech therapist and his language developed. Since starting nursery I can see theres a lot of differences in him other children and the nursery/school have been great with helping him.
Hes so intelligent and conforms really well as the nursery say but I am finding it all abit daunting I am stil getting my head around the fact he processes things very differently and it's hard because my partner is like yeah I said that all along and people are now being honest about concerns that they had which Just makes me feel like a crap mum for not recognising behaviours I just seen them as quirks. Today was a bad day and I need some advice on implementing discipline and setting boundaries because at end of day he's still a 4year that won't listen to his mummy and is pushing the boundaries it's getting to a point I dread talking him out because he plays up and I don't really know how is best to deal with it because the traditional methods don't seem to work for very long.
Hi. Is there any chance you can contact your local NAS branch and/or access the Earlybird Course? Not sure if you could do that via the speech therapist?
Just google Earlybird and your area or I think this is the link for NAS local services: http://www.autism.org.uk/directory.aspx
Good luck, could have rewound 20 years reading your post.
Hi thankyou both for your replies this has been really helpful and reading other people's experience I am not sure what to do in terms of support groups etc as we are still very much in the early stages and it's a case of getting the referrals and professionals in etc. His nursery teachers have started the ball rolling at nursery (he will start the school in sept) and the school have made eferrals to community paediatrics and have obv picked up he will need support. They have been great but as we have no diagnosis it's very confusing to try and get your head round as generally h doesn't really have behavioural problems so when he does miss behave he's very much a typical four yr old but he's also not if that makes any sense??