Hello. My son is 5 years old . He has trouble with motor imitation.he isnt able to imitate things like hand movements, dance moves...karate poses etc. He will watch but not be able to execute it correctly. Also very uncoordinated. Some history-- He started having some red flags at 14 months when he was not saying beyond 2 words and suddenly lost them. We didnt think much of it as he started saying them after some months again. At 23 months when we did tbe mchat we realized he had a few red flags. He did speech and Ot for 2 years. He was evaluated for ASD at 3. They said he was not on the spectrum and advised to continue Ot as he had weak core and fine and gross motor delays.he has always been in mainstream preschool and started talking at 3. He is now ahead of peers with academics and writing and has great langauge skills.
He also lacks pretend play skills beyond what we show him or what he sees on tv. He will create lots of pretend stuff from the toys he has but not actually play with it. He is better with solving games and puzzles and games where ppl are involved vs independent imaginary play.
He passes as NT but i dont think he is. I see the struggles with play/social skills. Eye contact actually good BUT he cant sustain it and speak at the same time. He has to focus on one at a time. He is in mainstream school and no teacher has ever flagged any issue thus far except that he was behind in handwriting. My questions are...should i pursue this more? When did the gap get wider with peers and how ?Any of your kids had these isues and not diagnosed ASD? If they were has diagnosis helped? What would you advise i do to help him in these areas.