Hi please help.
My 13 month old boy has shown signs of speech regression, and other worrying signs.
He said mama at 9 months... continued with it to 12 months but no other words, a bit of bababa and wawawa but nothing else. Over the last few weeks he’s stopped saying mama and gone back to shrieking and blowing raspberry’s, it’s like he’s 8 months again. He’s also stopped waving. He only did this for a short time but it’s stopped altogether. He has never pointed. He does clap in response to me clapping and when he sees someone he’s happy to see, and sometimes when I say ‘good boy’. There’s no other gestures like nodding head etc.
I was worried about him having no development in language but now he’s gone backwards.
He never responds to his name but I don’t know if that’s new or not, I never really noticed.
He does look round when he hears music from his tv show he likes, or if I say ‘no’ he stops and sometimes looks. So I don’t think it’s hearing.
He initiates peekaboo and chase me - crawling. He can not walk yet.
He pulls books anc toys from a shelf to play alone, if I join him he will interact, sit on my lap, but he won’t bring things to me himself.
He does do some imitation play. He has a kitchen and likes it if he puts a cup to my mouth and I pretend to drink.
He eats and sleeps very well.
HV came out today and although has made pead referral and said he’s not hitting target and has developmental delays but basically seemed to dismiss the regression side of it as he only lost 1 word.... but that was 100% of his speech!
I feel like it’s massive red flags for autism and she’s dismissed that as ‘far too soon’.
I feel really stuck. He doesn’t babble only shreik to get responses now and I spend hours each day babbling and talking to him and get nothing repeated. But if I blow a raspberry he does it straight back.
Eye contact is fairly good. He smiles if I do something funny, but not just if I smile at him anymore (he did at 6-9 months)
Please please reply and help me my head is spinning.
(For info, no history of asd, English only speaking household. )