Here is my old thread here if anyone not familiar with my ds.

The nursery/school haven great, we have a toilet visual timeline thingy set up at home, a photo info booklet to talk through with him about going into mornings in september, head teacher found me books etc, school senco/salt working with him sept too.

When I spoke to head she said that EdPsych said he would rather wait until around age 7 to dx, but he is definately on the spectrum. he also said if ds can manage without one to one then that is best for him in the long run. But he will have termly IEPS and edpsych can see him if anything changes.

I feel a little strange as his key worker has already told me she feels he needs one to one and I agree - I am a cm and he is exhausting and takes a lot of my emotional and physical energy (feel bad saying that).

I don't know whether to push for a dx or not. I don't want him to just manage I want him to be happy and moving forward.

I don't know what to do for best.

I was talking to DP last night too about how exhausted I am working FT cm'ing with DS, and don't know if a DX would help with this in terms of benefits?? Feel terrible about thinking that too as he is my son.

Felt ok a week or two ago but seem to have even more questions now!

Can I also ask other parents, do your ASD kids get exhausted? DS seems to find some tings so tiring bless him, he got in the pushchair at 5pm with a blanket and slept, had cried for about an hour before hand at the drop of a hat.

Thanks for getting this far.