Hi, My daughter is almost 3 and has just been diagnosed. Health professionals seem reluctant to give any indication as to what her future potential might be. Please could anyone share what their child was like as a toddler and how they have changed.
Hi, My daughter is almost 3 and has just been diagnosed. Health professionals seem reluctant to give any indication as to what her future potential might be. Please could anyone share what their child was like as a toddler and how they have changed.
Hi - my son didn't speak until he was 5. He said a 6 word phrase at school, altho his pronounciation was poor. Speech therapy sorted that out over a period of time. He understood single words + short phrases 2-3 yrs before he spoke. He is diagnosed as autistic. He has never been classified as having aspergers. He is reliant on a number of key words, phrases + sentences to communicate. He uses these appropriately. He listens quite a lot to what others are saying, sometimes I only realise a bit later that he was really concentrating. He takes 0.5mg of risperidone daily. This helps him by enabling him to concentrate better + also prevents him from getting extremely upset at times. He doesn't hold conversations with people + misses many social cues. He knows loads of people, goes to a wide variety of places with support, uses his pc daily. I think he's doing ok. He has v g support + his living environment is also suitable for him. I'll fight tooth + nail if I have to, to keep all that for him because it's key to his quality of life + we worked so very hard to get where we are today 
Hi - my son didn't speak until he was 5. He said a 6 word phrase at school, altho his pronounciation was poor. Speech therapy sorted that out over a period of time. He understood single words + short phrases 2-3 yrs before he spoke. He is diagnosed as autistic. He has never been classified as having aspergers. He is reliant on a number of key words, phrases + sentences to communicate. He uses these appropriately. He listens quite a lot to what others are saying, sometimes I only realise a bit later that he was really concentrating. He takes 0.5mg of risperidone daily. This helps him by enabling him to concentrate better + also prevents him from getting extremely upset at times. He doesn't hold conversations with people + misses many social cues. He knows loads of people, goes to a wide variety of places with support, uses his pc daily. I think he's doing ok. He has v g support + his living environment is also suitable for him. I'll fight tooth + nail if I have to, to keep all that for him because it's key to his quality of life + we worked so very hard to get where we are today
