First time posting on the site, but wanted to hear of experiences from other parents, as I ‘wait and watch’. My son is 27 months and does not always respond to his name and follow instructions. The nursery flagged it up and it's only now that I began taking it seriously, and thinking he might be on the autism spectrum.
He did point but started pointing vigorously to ask for things only after he turned two. He pretends plays, loves cuddles, likes playing with his sister, and is comfortable with parallel play, has good eye contact at home (but had fleeting one when the HV came in),
has a few words- points and says car, juice, broccoli, strawberry. His bye-bye are a hit-and-miss-does when he wants to. We are a bilingual family, so initially, the nursery put it down to multiple languages. We also had his ears checked- he has way too much wax- and only after the wax is removed can the doctor determine if he has glue ear or not, then hearing.
My thought is that even with glue ear he needs to be able to comprehend, even if cannot speak? Wanted to ask parents if it is the case. Thanks to the waiting time, I am only starting the process- the doctor recommended oil which didn’t work for a good month, not sodium bicarbonate in his ears. In the first week of Nov, I have been called by the GP to check his ears, and then she says she might recommend suction. Then after the suction, the check for glue ear- it seems to be a long process, and I worry my child will be even further delayed in his speech, but also assessment if it is not hearing but more developmental.