Hi- thanks so much for posting this- you have so much to be proud of, Im so glad to hear your son is doing so well. Can I ask how he is doing socially? Is he interacting with other kids and taking an interest in them?thanks Tzoya!!
He is on no meds, other than his nightly 1/2 dose of dye free benadryl. He has had no ABA. He was also stopped from all shots after we found out he was ASD. He will not be getting any more.
His Preschool open house was a great success, his teachers were impressed as most of his talking happened over the summer, with no prompting. He was home with me all summer and we had no ST,OT at all. Still not potty trained but we are working on it. I wanted to post this to let other parents know that YES. there is hope. That not all children need to be in therapy 40hrs a week. Some ASD kids can and do start talking late. I'm very proud of my little boy and I have never seen a kid as happy to learn and go to school as he and his other ASD classmates are.
Your situation is a textbook example of why child psychiatrists who are familiar with autism hesitate to give a medical diagnosis before school age. Many docs are under intense pressure these days (by us parents) to give that DX because we believe our kids will get much better (and earlier) intervention. The truth is, our kids can get intervention without any sort of medical dx, just with tested delays. And many, many kids with issues are not actually autistic but prove to simply be late bloomers. That gets to be a less likely scenario after kindergarten age, which is about when doctors begin to feel comfortable making a firm dx.
I'm thrilled to hear that your little boy has done so well. I'm sure he has a bright future in front of him!
[QUOTE=tkny12]Hi- thanks so much for posting this- you have so much to be proud of, Im so glad to hear your son is doing so well. Can I ask how he is doing socially? Is he interacting with other kids and taking an interest in them?[/QUOTE]
Yes he does, but not in the way that most kids his age and NT do. He will walk up to them and place his hand on their chest as a greeting, he does this to everyone even severly ASD children that are in the middle of a meltdown. He is very social with Adults. He is still in the habit of leading people around to get them to sit down so he can play his piano fro them, if you do not clap when he is done he will come over to you and make you clap saying "come on, come on ok?" I don't push him to be social, I feel that is something he needs to be comfortable with and I don't want to deter him by forcing him. I know alot of other parents disagree with this approach but for my son to force him is counter productive. the more he is forced into something the more he resists. he needs to feel that he has some control over his choices and quite frankly that is fine with me, as he grows he will have to be independent. I wish that the moderators would have left this topic where it was and not have moved it. More parents read the Parents column.
I wish you good luck.