dd has been being seen for five years after she lost language at seveBreen months. she has lots of issues mostly speech and Lang but also a genetic condition which confuses things as the meds affect behaviour and also she has sensory processing problems and bowel ,bladder and skin probs.
after years of waiting and various tests I asked for autism tests and our paed said she is almost certainly on the spectrum and clinical psychologist is doing testing which began this week. Dd was very compliant during the testing. sadly due to years of serious medical problems and hospitalizations she is at home at hospital! her severe language issues meant testing was complicated and the psychologist said she also needs parent history next week then to talk to school then if she feels it's still unclear she will refer elsewhere or wait and see and put traits on the report. I feel desperate at this l have been reading up on autism and I know I am not a doctor but dd has shown so many signs,I now think she could easily have been diagnosed at two when I now realise this is what people have thought all along.
can I do anything if this happens? she discusses Nyone know what we could be waiting to see now? am tearful and feel so down at the possibility of still no diagnosis but a child about to move to special school and who is very obviously struggling due to me and others not having known how severely the sensory and obsessive stuff affecting her.