Sensational kids.
Can anyone here back that up and maybe let me know a little about the things the book covers?
Ds is 4.10 and in reception. He has asymmetric language delay with age appropriate receptive language but the spoken language of a child of about 20 months of age, 0.4 percentile for expressive.
He has a range of sensory issues from forming strong attachments to thing of a certain fabric type, feels pain from the tiniest thing to an abject fear of the dark.
He has many autistic traits but also shows some things more unusual in autistic children although far from unheard of like good eye contact and a desire to be social (although no clue how!)
He currently has 15 hours 1-1 at school under a special funding scheme from my LEA for small schools, he has a specialist SaLT support worker who comes in to work with him one morning a week and an OT referral has also been made.
He has no statement at this time but as we have pretty much everything a statement would give (apart from legal entitlement to his provision) although depending on how things go a statement is possible route for the future.
As we have great school support and provision in place we are in no rush for a HFA diagnosis, if we had needed one for support then paediatrician would have made it but as it is we are waiting 6 months to see where the high SaLT level gets us.