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Advice needed please!!!!

Archie's mummy

Hi everyone,

My little boy is 21 months and I believe he is showing signs of being on the spectrum ASD!! I have done nothing but read and read posts on the Internet these past few weeks!! He doesn't talk, or point to things. He doesn't respond to his name (never has) he tip toe walks and he hand flaps a lot especially when excited. He has been referred to a community paediatrician but appointment is not until May (a long 12 weeks away) I am awaiting for a speech referral from HV but want to know what I can do in the meantime as everything I have read stresses the importance of early intervention.  He began nursery yesterday x2 sessions per week in the hope that it may bring him on a little and also so I will have another report ready for paeditrician  appointment in May. My gut instinct tells me something is not right but I just don't want to be told he is too young and have the wait and see answer. Can anyone recommend anything I can do daily with my son in the meantime before referral appointments arrive!! Would it be worth paying speech therapist also as I don't know what it's offered on the NHS whilst he is going through this stage. Any advice or help would be much appreciated. Thank you. 

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  • Hi again - once my son started talking he didn't give up, despite having poor pronounciation at 1st.   Speech therapy sorted that out.  He could write before he could speak.  He now has quite a large vocabulary.  He has fav things he likes to talk about/have a laugh about so he can be repetetive.  He surprises me with what he does understand + equally he can surprise me with what he doesn't understand.  He still has difficulty putting longer sequences of events together.  So he can sometimes only see a partial picture of a situation/what happened.

    I really liked the story about the yogurts.  My son would do something similar.  He wanted to know about each tin/packet.  He would line them up + use my finger to point at each 1. So this way we could expand his education by pointing at the pictures + saying what it was + pointing at the words.  He sounds a practical little soul, like my son.   Play to his interests!

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  • Hi again - once my son started talking he didn't give up, despite having poor pronounciation at 1st.   Speech therapy sorted that out.  He could write before he could speak.  He now has quite a large vocabulary.  He has fav things he likes to talk about/have a laugh about so he can be repetetive.  He surprises me with what he does understand + equally he can surprise me with what he doesn't understand.  He still has difficulty putting longer sequences of events together.  So he can sometimes only see a partial picture of a situation/what happened.

    I really liked the story about the yogurts.  My son would do something similar.  He wanted to know about each tin/packet.  He would line them up + use my finger to point at each 1. So this way we could expand his education by pointing at the pictures + saying what it was + pointing at the words.  He sounds a practical little soul, like my son.   Play to his interests!

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