Yes, please, bring! My entire house could do with redesigning!
Frus how are you feeling about the dx? How's DD1? I guess she's old enough to understand it - is she concerned about being "labelled" or relieved that it'll help people understand her?
I had a frustrating morning. Bumped into the SENCO at drop off & she asked how things were going & proceeded to compare Calf to her DS who "is absolutely fine, he's not been diagnosed with anything, he's absolutely fine." Apparently when he was little he used to only sleep in their bed or on the floor until he was about 5 & they built wooden sides to their bunk-beds with a porthole for access & then he was fine & slept in his own bed. Oh, & co-sleeping is "wrong" - I said I'd happily let Calf sleep in our bed if it avoided the hyperness but he'd be even more wound up if we tried it. She said they'd had to let him sleep in their bed just to get some sleep but "obviously it's wrong". 
Then she started on about how pleased his key-worker is with his progress & how marvellously he's doing... before informing me that she does like to focus on the positives because once there are positives there's hope! Didn't quite like to ask "hope of what?" because I've got a feeling the answer would be "hope that he'll be fine". I got the distinct impression that her aim was to help him mask his difficulties & write him off as "fine".
Even more frustrating was that that whole conversation came just after I'd had to talk him into going into his room at all - he'd been lurking in the doorway, obviously reluctant to go in, so I brought him back out & asked what the problem was: "All the children are talking loudly in my ear & that's not good." I explained that everyone would quiet down a bit once the parents were gone & suggested he read a book in the corner until it was quieter. His key-worker noticed all this & was supportive. Pretty sure the SENCO would've just told me again that "lots of children don't like loud noises". It wasn't even that loud in there, just lots of voices talking & he'd already had a fairly overwhelming morning because we'd woken up late & had to rush though the usual routine.
I rang my mum & she let me rant for half an hour was really supportive & offered to give my list of potential symptoms to someone she knows who's a developmental psychologist & helped her & my DSis when DNiece was first diagnosed. Hopefully that'll be helpful! It made me look again at the list & try to think of examples for everything - I struggled to think of anything for the echolalia... He's currently repeating "one ice-cream comma-not" - misheard from a recent episode of Bing. Nothing has happened to make him think of ice-creams, he's just randomly come out with it & keeps saying it. Just before lunch it was "climb aboard but don't touch anything" - fairly sure that's from the story he read when I left him this morning. I asked what he'd done & had to remind him of when I'd left him - I was treated to the entire story, including what I assume are direct quotes "He dug down, down, down for miles all through the night". He won't tell me anything else that happened though, apparently he can remember every word of that book but can't remember if he did any drawing! 
I finished one of his "don't wipe your face on your sleeves" hankies. He wanted it at lunch time... continued to wipe his face on his sleeve but used it to hold his cucumber because "it's a little bit cold and wet."