Hi blackbird welcome.

We don't move very fast in this thread, but its a good place to come for understanding and support. We do not do ABA, only because I don't think it would help Matilda where she is. We are booked in for doing something called RDI, you can have a good google about it . Our paed explained that there were 3 basic areas for behaviour, one was ABA, one was floortime (which is an OT based emotional regulation sort of thing) and one was RDI. There were other things out there, but these are the 3 basic ones. We are doing RDI because we've been doing OT based emotional regulation for a while and thought we'd try something else at the same time. Its basically teaching the parents how to help develop the child relationally.

Sleep is a major thing for most kids "on the spectrum". This week its taken Matilda 2 hours to get to bed everynight... its very frustrating as a parent, but apparently very very normal for our superkids.

I'm up too early, but I will come back again soon.... today we go to the urologist to find out about the ultrasound yesterday.... from my eyes, her kidney is not looking too good, but we'll see what she says.