Hi, been toying with the idea of posting but I guess I’m worrying what people will reply.
I have a gorgeous LB aged 22 months who has a handful of words (mostly all labels, animal sounds and counts to 1-10)
He does have joint attention in some area’s I.e shape sorters, reading books, tickling games and we do this thing where he makes a noise out of his mouth and taps his mouth to make it sound funny and laughs about it.
He often takes my hand, making eye contact to take me somewhere and then points to it for me to get it for him, will sometimes push my legs towards wherever it is he wants to go.
responds to name well over half of the time, unless he’s watching a bit of tv or engrossed in a toy)
He loves playing with his brother (6) and says his name now.
he understands some simple commands I.e get your shoes, find your bubbles, do you want a bath (will happily go to the stairs and into the bathroom)
I just don’t feel he’s using language as a form to communicate. If he’s winging I will say, what do you want, do you want juice and he will say ‘juice’ but because I know him so well, I think I pre-empt everything.
I’ve done the worst possible thing and googled the living day lights out of ASD and beginning to wonder if this is the start?
no sensory issues that I can pick up on (I’m a special needs TA) so have experience, not sure if that’s a good thing in this case)
doesn’t seem phased by changes to routine, pretty go with the flow type toddler.
Plays with toys appropriately, has done some pretend play too, holding airplane up and making the sound and holding a toy phone up and said ‘hewwo’
he’s cutting 2 big back teeth and I think he’s been a bit extra grumpy.
my main two issues are, when he sees something he’s interested in, he will point but doesn’t check back to me to see if I’m looking, and lack of speech to communicate.
He’s also started this bloody awful moaning grunt when he’s a bit annoyed and it’s driving me crazy!
thanks