Help please

[Mibby]

Hi

A work friend has a 2 1/4 year old DS who is being invesigated for autism and ADHD.

They also have a 3 year old DD

She is seeing a specialist with him at the end of Aug but had the health visitor round today to talk about help/ finances and special nursery places. She was quite positive about this but I've just spoke to her and she's quite depressed that the HV was utterly useless (didn't know much about autism, said they need an official diagnosis before they can tell her what help is available and left saying 'well there are no special nurseries round here anyway')

She's in Nottingham, is there anyone in the area with any ideas/ resources etc? I'm recommending she joins MN

Thanks for reading

Mibby x

A lot of early intervention can be put in place based on the needs of the child rather than a diagnosis. Tell her to come on here and we can point her in the right direction.
I am sure someone from Nottingham will be along shortly!

Health visitors are often useless .

If there are sn schools in the area (which there should be) then there should be nursery's. Quite often sn schools have nurseries and take children from 2+. She could also speek to her local council (childrens services).

Dd2 was referred to a sn nursery through her speach therapist when she was almost 3 years old.

Get her to join MN, it has helped me so much.