Hi All
So I’m wondering what everyone else’s thoughts are before I book anything.
So nursery pulled me aside at beginning of year and said our little one wasn’t really communicating, interacting or talking to them at nursery and asked what he was like at home, I said he communicates and interacts with us all the time and that we know his speech is slightly delayed but we were working with him on it.
They said perhaps to get his hearing checked and it has turned out he has glue ear in both ears and the audiologist said that when there is a lot of noise going on, our little one is finding it hard to pinpoint the noise and where it’s coming from so he may not communicate etc at nursery because he is finding it difficult. We may need grommets, so going to cross that bridge when it comes to it.
Whilst I can appreciate that, I am unsure whether he may be autistic, have Asperger’s or just the glue ear.
He tantrums really easily at the moment, has started speaking in sentences but now also echoing alot of what we say, so for example we say “say bye bye to xx” and he will sometimes (not all the time) repeat it back but then alot of the other time will say it fine, sort of imaginary plays but not massively, lies head on floor to play with car toys, will take himself off to play some of the time, obsessed with riding his balance bike at the skate park, when he comes to his stair gate in the middle of the night he will do a whinge and we have to remind him to call for us, will have a meltdown when someone tries to take something he is playing with from him. But has got better when we modelled with him and he was very caring to the boy he was playing with and kept going over to him to share the car and saying “share with xx” He will also recite two books he knows that we read to him and also tell us the missing word in some. He will also recite lines from Mr Tumble like “if you see it wave and cheer” and if he sees a lorry for example he will say “lorry, you sign, lorry” and does the makaton. Doesn’t always say this, sometimes he will say “it’s a lorry” or “I see a lorry”. He will also get the pronouns confused so will always say “xx like a banana” has known his alphabet since about 20 months and also counts 1-20 since then. Recognises letters and numbers.
He is very good with joint attention always wanting us to join in with things, loves babies and aware of his surroundings, he does love socialising with peers he knows, aware of who everyone is, knows what things are, aware when someone has left or entered a room, points at everything to show us, loves a disco to dance with people, copies movements and actions, good eye contact, interacted well and listened to instructions well with speech therapist and audiologist. speech therapist had no concerns nor did the audiologist as he loved interacting with them. Asks us to do something like “mummy do it” when he wants me to push his toy train along track or asks for water and food when he wants it. Understands some instructions.
What would you guys think? Has anyone been in similar situation? HV is visiting soon as well.