I've posted a couple of times on here before with ongoing concerns about my DS having autism. He turns 14 months this week and is not saying any words at all or pointing so we are still concerned.
However, he has made really good progress over the last two months and is now doing the following things that he wasn't doing at all at 12 months:
- plays peekaboo
- reaches out to be picked up
- gives us cuddles and shows us affection (hooray!
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- claps and waves appropriately (most of the time)
- gets reassurance from me (I think) when meeting new people (eg. he will smile at a stranger then hide his face in my lap)
- gives us things (I wouldn't say exactly that he shows us things but eg. we were playing with a shape sorter today where you need to remove one of the pegs to get the shapes out and he was giving it to me - I think - so that I would do that for him. Sometimes he also gives us random stuff as well.)
- gestures with his whole hand at stuff he wants or if i say where's Daddy, he'll turn towards DH and gesture with his whole hand
He also follows a point and babbles and has been for a while. Physical development is fine, he's been walking unaided for about 5 weeks.
I guess what I'm wondering is, does the fact that he's made really good progress over the last couple of months mean that he might catch up, or is the fact that he was so late to do things like peekaboo a concerning sign in itself? Obviously we hope he is just a slow starter! It would be great to hear any thoughts.