Hi,
My son is 2.5 years old. He was the most chilled out, happy baby who loved sleep, cuddles and anything with wheels that spins!
I’ve been concerned about his development since he was 9 months old. He was late crawling, walking, wouldn’t give any eye contact, would look straight through us when we did try to engage with him and he always walks on his tip toes. Health Visitor is aware and we are under a paediatrician for this.
He has a speech delay and Speech and Language discharged him as he wouldn’t sit down long enough to complete any of their assessments.
Nursery have expressed their concerns about his social and emotional development. My son can get overstimulated at nursery and push other children due to excitement. He is built more like a 5 YO rather than a 2 YO, so he is strong and can hurt children when he pushes them. Nursery have told me that there is no malice in his pushing but it’s just because he can’t communicate that he wants them to play with him and the nursery environment can get too much for him in the afternoons. As a result, they’ve told us that their SEND team have recommended him to only be in nursery for half days.
Whenever I take him out, he screams, cries and throws himself on the floor. Or, he’ll run and run and run, not knowing what to play with but wanting to play with everything. He grabbed another child and then pushed them over, then laughed after he did it, and when I went to deal with it, he ran off and thought it was a game.
My son is so loving, so happy and will babble away to himself for hours on end and will only say certain words. We use flash cards but he won’t use what he’s learnt and put it into a short sentence.
At home and at nursery, he will not sit down and do an activity. He goes from one thing, to another, then another and back again. The longest time we’ve had with an activity is 3 minutes. He has one to one in nursery too.
We do a lot of play outdoors as he loves being outside, so will run and say ‘stop’ then we’ll do it again. He loves counting, so we count our steps and count toys.
Nursery have put in a GDA referral and have said they have seen traits of ADHD, not autism. My son sleeps A LOT. He’ll sleep for 12 hours at night and has a 3 hour afternoon nap. I think it’s because he’s on the go from the minute he gets up to the minute he goes to sleep.
The point I’m trying to get at is, has anyone had similar at nursery? What else can I do to support my son? Nursery think he needs to be exposed to going out with the children but it’s really hard when he is clearly getting overstimulated and upset by it all.
what do you do with your children that helps regulate them?