Kerry...your story about this boy is sad. There is so much that can be done to help him. I feel that the best support our son can get is from US...his parents who love him so much, perhaps even more so now that we know what is different about him.
We took our son to the speech pathologist last week. It was again a positive experience. The pathologist took her time to make our son comfortable and talk casually to him at first...our little boy is quite sociable so no problems really. She did an assessment on him in the 3 areas of language - the first I cannot remember, expressive language and pramatics. He did very well actually and answered questions and showed her things I thought he could not do. She told us that it looks to her as High functioning Autism or something similar.... BUT to remember how lucky we are to have a little boy who does NOT mind change, and has a sense of humor, and has very little behaviour problems....
He does get frustrated quite a bit when he cannot work something out on his own (like putting a music tape in) and we also have to give some warning to when dinner is, bath time etc.... as he does not like to be interupted when playing with his special toys.... but really, this is fair enough !!! I don't like being told come straight away when in the middle of something interesting either !!
He is also going great in the toliet training department ! He loves to do wees on the loo at home and elsewhere too (cheche, others houses etc) but poos....well, still a bit worried about that on the loo, he is...but i know it will just be a matter of time.. It is great to be washing undies rather than throwing out nappies !!
I often remind myself what is is like to be 3... yes,
he just celebrated his 3rd birthday !
we are also finding nightmares are occuring more...I think this is an age related thing however, toddlers this age cannot understand between reality and fantasty/dreams etc.
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