Post by mividaloca on Apr 14, 2014 20:34:11 GMT -5
red flags :For my daughter I noticed she wasnt making eye contact. And usually kids like to see funny faces in the mirror, well Dd had no interest. She didn't even smile or see her reflection. Also no saying momma or dada or baba, hand flapping, and not wanting to play with me or her sister.
Getting a diagnosis: I took her to a speech thereapist that did an evaluation and tests to see her levels of fine.motors, cognitive, and communication skills. From there I contacted my local regional center. They helped us get a diagnosis from a psycologist. and set up early intervention therapy. I avoided medical doctors.
Kid 3 had the most signs looking back. He span tires on cars and trains. He opened the baby gate and would play with it for hours, no language, no eye contact, flapping, no sleeping. The twins lacked the ability to transition. I thought it was because I kept a schedule since they were twins.
Post by litebright on Apr 14, 2014 22:33:24 GMT -5
Hyperlexia. She knew all her letters and could read them out of alphabet books by 21 months -- I have it on video, she couldn't even pronounce them all but she knew them. When we turned her FFing in her carseat at 23 months, she would say "Ock! Ock!" (R,R) every time we passed a railroad crossing sign. She could read the letters off the shopping cart handle even though they were upside down and backwards from her POV.
Echolalia, LOTS of echoing. Constantly echoing the last few words I said, but it often sounded like she was asking a question or confirming, only it wasn't functional. I remember one day when we went 'round and 'round with me asking, "are you done on the potty, yes or no?" and her responding "yes or no" until I wanted to scream. That was a moment when I knew something had to be wrong. She was around 2.5.
Post by lyssbobiss, Command, B613 on Apr 15, 2014 9:48:05 GMT -5
First warning sign was delayed speech. He seemed to have no interest in understanding what we were saying, or forming new words. Then everything was parroted. Instead of asking for something he wanted, he would just echo us (ie. instead of saying "I want juice" he would say "Do you want some juice, buddy?").
Shortly after that he started flapping a lot - this was around age 2 or 2.5. He started getting fixated on things, had a hard time with different food textures, didn't like a lot of music, got upset if it was too bright out - basically all signs that he either had a sensory processing disorder or was on the spectrum.
As for getting a diagnosis, we had a pediatrician who thought I was being hysterical, but I knew something was wrong. The pediatrician tried to tell me our son was just "being 2" or "being 3" - that they're all stubborn and difficult and in 6 months, I would realize that I wasn't being rational.
We changed doctors. Started the evaluation process at his 4-year checkup with a new doctor. It took about 2 months to get in to see the behavioral/developmental department at Children's Hospital here. Took another 2 months for them to go over their data and give us a diagnosis.
"This prick is asking for someone here to bring him to task Somebody give me some dirt on this vacuous mass so we can at last unmask him I'll pull the trigger on it, someone load the gun and cock it While we were all watching, he got Washington in his pocket."
Post by litebright on Apr 15, 2014 10:49:51 GMT -5
I'm going to post this and leave it for a little while. This is that video I was referencing. DD1's eye contact isn't terrible, in fact at one point when she says the letter M she turns to me and says, "Mama!" Even at that young age she was already starting to connect letters and sounds.
But man, she would read that book over and over. LOL. She pronounced X as "akum," and you can see her get the K and X a little confused, but she is largely spot-on despite iffy pronunciation.
We also had hyperlexia. DS could recognize all his letters around 15 months, could identify all their phonetic sounds by 18 months and started to read sight words by 20 months. He has taught himself to read and will go through full books by himself at 3.5. He also had a speech delay and I noticed a lot of echolalia and scripting around 2. This was also the same time I noticed he didn't have any real interest in other kids. Adults, he was all over but no peer to peer play.
He passed an EI eval with "not enough delay to be of concern" and the M-CHAT at his pedi's office at 2. I disagreed with their findings and brought him back at 2.5. At that point he was diagnosed by his pediatrician and EI determined there was now sufficient evidence to warrant a full eval. We are still on the waiting list for the developmental pedi but he is in ECSE 5 days a week with 2 pullouts (30 minutes each) for speech and private ABA 15 hours a week.
hyperlexia, rigidity, being extremely interested in the Windows reboot startup music at age 2 months!!...I put it off for diagnosis until age 14 months