As the title says I'm starting to get worried about my 3.2yo DS.
I have yet to hold a proper conversation with him. He is the most happy smily and contented little boy but i'm starting to think something isn't quite right.
He doesn't seem to 'get' conversation, ie you will ask him something and he has no idea that he has to answer you. It's the same with choices, he doesn't get them either.
He does understand a lot of what we say, but his range of answers are limited. For ex, i have just said 'time for bathtime with Daddy', and he says 'not again'. This is his standard response for something negative. He will follow simple instructions, and more complex ones if it is something he wants!!!
He doesn't seem to understand reasoning though at all. He repeats things off the telly, not obsseively, but it is noticable, and will talk to 'Peppa and George' all day long, although he does use this in context of the situation that is happening at the time.
We have got no where with potty training, he is just not interested.
My DP is worried about autism, but I'm not sure, he is so happy, smily, he has a great imagination, doesn't really have any routines apart from bedtime, is laidback generally (except tantrums), and is sympathetic to peoples feelings (if he sees me cry he will cry, it upsets him)
It's just the communication thing. He has started to say 'Mummy?' in that questioning tone, but when i say 'yes darling?', he doesn't know how to respond.
I am beating myself up as I think it maybe something I have done wrong, The speech therapist says he is fine (after a 10 min drop in session), but I've been patient for ages waiting for him to come on and its not really happening.
Any thought ideas or experience? Feel very alone with it all....
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Starting to get worried about my DS (3.2), speech etc
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Novacane · 10/07/2007 19:47
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