Hi, looking for advice please. Our 6year old son is currently on the waiting list for an ADOS assessment. We’ve been back and forwards between community paediatricians, speech and language therapy and various other agencies since he was at nursery. We’ve filled in various forms and questionnaires, as have the school, but between appointments we just seem to be left hanging for months on end. We suspect he has Aspergers and ADHD. The school have been good in many respects and the SENCO has put things in place for him even though we don’t have any kind of diagnosis yet.
Just recently he has been getting more and more difficult to manage. He can have a meltdown one day over something that he took in his stride the day before. We feel like we’re constantly walking on eggshells. He is incredibly demanding and we’re completely exhausted. There is just no break and we feel like we have no support. We also have 3 year old daughter who we believe doesn’t have autism but has started to copy some of his behaviours. We are just at breaking point and can’t see how things are ever going to get better.