Hi
So up until now I haven't been concerned about my 28 month old. Her speech was slow but she says numbers, colours, mummy, daddy, water, and animals as well as shower and over odd words - mainly all these words have came in the last six weeks. She's very smiley, ALWAYS happy, cuddly with everyone, not scared of new people, makes eye contact with me, walks flat footed, not bothered by change of environment or textures or food or sounds and very rarely has tantrums (and gentle ones at that) but I went to nursery review the other day and they have marked her as severe for eye contact, social skills and speech and are requesting an official assessment of her. And since then when I've told people they've told me they (multiple) suspect she's on the spectrum because she doesn't pay attention to other children and is very active and likes to run around (in an environment where she's allowed, not like a restaurant etc). The only red flag I personally had was she doesn't always respond to her name.
Has anyone had a child like the above who had gone on to have a development delay but not autism, and had these issues catch up?
I'm worried for her but I don't feel I can talk to anyone as I'm being batted back by anyone I try to talk to about it and feeling quite low and alone.