Is this an Autism symptom?

[reformer29]

Hi everyone,

I'm new here. Someone said I should post here as I will get more replies. But...

I have DS who is 4 and a half.

I suspect DS has autism, but the thing is, he has been assessed for autism 3 times and it all comes back that no he doesn't have it. He does have a diagnosis of speech and language disorder and dyspraxia.

DS does this thing that makes me wonder if he actually does have autism. Ok, when we are out and about, if someone is walking behind DS (which DS cannot see), DS does not move out of the way, he doesn't do this on purpose though, so I always have to move DS out of the way so that people can get pass.

But he does move out of the way if someone is in front of them (as he can see them of course).

Is this due to autism?

Also, concerning dyspraxia, I am very new to this diagnosis as DS just received this. His Dyspraxia ain't severe, but looking at a closer inspection of his walking, it's like his walking on air, his overall balance is off, I was wondering if this too was common with children in Dyspraxia and if any of you parents have suggestions on how I could help DS.

Hi Reformer
I have a friend whose son has dyspraxia and who had a severe speech disorder, but it was related to the dyspraxia - it was called verbal apraxia. My friend's son has fine motor control issues - so he can walk and run ok, but can't do things that require fine control, like tie shoelaces, cut food up with a knife, write clearly (although now he's 7 he's getting better, but he still has the writing of a 4yo).

Verbal apraxia meant that his tongue and the muscles of his mouth were too weak to easily form the sounds that we need to speak - he needed intensive speech therapy to deal with this, and although he still has some troubles now with certain sounds, and actually sounds as though he's deaf because the sounds are "muffled" when he produces them, he is mostly quite understandable now, although he still gets anxious when talking to new people or in front of the class because he knows he's still not 100% clear in his speech.

www.asha.org/public/speech/disorders/ChildhoodApraxia/ have a look at this link and see if it sounds like your son.

I can't comment on the autism likelihood or not - my DS1 still walks in front of people with no awareness, and he's 7, purely because he's daydreaming most of the time!

It's so hard when your worried because you become hyper aware of every little thing.

Every child is different too, as they saying says "if you have met one child with autism you have met one child with autism" so how a child reacts in one situation won't necessary suggest much - DS who is being assessed for ASD would be more likely to scream in that situation that someone was going past him whereas my 4 year old
nt nephew wokld be oblivious to them - but I am guessing that this is one of a list of concerns.

Is he starting school this year? If so mention your concerns to school and ask them to keep an eye on how he is in school.

Dyspraxia is NOT on the autistic spectrum as a pp said. But often diagnosed together. This useful to read and very applicable tomorrow ds, op! www.autism.org.uk/about-autism/related-conditions/dyspraxia/dyspraxia-and-autism-spectrum-disorders.aspx

Tomorrow = to your

Who's said dyspraxia is on the spectrum?

Me and many others have said there's a cross over of symptoms - both are neuro developmental disabilities.

Shannaratiger said dyspraxia is on the spectrum.