Hello everyone :)
my son is 24 months and was diagnosed Autistic last week. We are waiting contact from SALT and Portage and a place on a More Than Words course.
do I need to be doing anything else? Work are not being supportive and won’t let me have unpaid leave for appointments unless I take it as a block of a week and give 21 days notice because we don’t get DLA. Preschool have said we can’t access 15 hours a week funding because we haven’t got a statement.
how do we get a statement? Do I need to apply for DLA? I mean he’s very difficult sometimes, but then people just tell me all 2 year olds are difficult and it makes me think I’m being a pathetic rubbish parent so I don’t know why we would be entitled to anything really.
sorry if none of this makes sense: I was expecting years of assessments and things and didn’t expect to get a diagnosis so feel really unprepared.
thank you
rooma 
