Hello everyone, I’m here because I’m very anxious, scared and confused.
My DD was recently referred as she shows signs of autism and the nursery nurse finally listened to me! To make this as short as I can, my daughter is 2.4y, she doesn’t talk but if she does say a world she most likely doesn’t know what it means. She counts to 10 on her fingers even if she doesn’t pronounce the words correctly and said maybe 5 words but not regularly. She’s trying very hard but the words just aren’t coming out, we sing, dance, talk, read but the only way she started saying little things here and there was by watching Ms Rachael.
We had speech therapy today and the therapist confirmed that she is showing signs and she will further refer her but there is a LONG wait so we need to focus on her speech for now. I’m 22, I don’t have any kids in my family so I don’t know what I was expecting but I didn’t expect them to tell me the “speech therapy” will be done at nursery by the staff members that got another 4 kids each to focus on and won’t have time to actually sit down with her and do the actual therapy. I’ve been looking into private therapists but they’re very expensive and the only ABA therapist we have is in central London which is quite far to go to every day. I feel like I’m failing her and she doesn’t get the best help she can get, I’m looking into things I can do myself to help but I’m so clueless.
Does anyone know how I can help my possible autistic DD? Speech, behaviour, development and just day to day life as I feel like I’ve been doing everything’s wrong now. Sorry for the long post, desperate times here! 😭