Anyone elses autisti. dc have good pretend play skills?

[Crawling]

Just wondering as CAHMS mentioned it was rare among autistic children. So anyone else?

Yes, mine has a diagnosis of asd/PDA.

I don't think it is rare - I think it's ones of those things that's assumed happens to children on the spectrum. They don't have empathy, they can't express love and they can't do pretend playing amongst a few.
All children are different and the same applies to children on the spectrum, my ds is good at all the above things and I've come across other children who are too

Hell yeah!

DD can get right into character, so much so she becomes it...when she's a dog you have to bark at her or she can't understand. Because she's a dog

But ask her to imagine how it feels to be another human being, ie me, she hasn't a clue.

Crawling, my DS has HFA.
The only input I have had from SaLT has been WRT his play skills.

They ran the Talkability programme which was looking at social skills.

But it also looks at play skills and how they develop. The book is available on Amazon.

It was interesting to me to learn how children's play skills develop in a linear way just like language or motor skills. And what I can do as a parent to help him move along a level. It's very slow, but a year on, he has better skills, but continues to need work.

Thought it might be interesting for you.

Yes my ds has great imaginary play. I think it's bit of a misconception the play thing. What my ds struggles with us social imagination e.g if I do x or say y the other person will do this or feel this way. Or if a person Is doing x it's because of y. Those are concepts ds finds hard to navigate

Thanks all what gets me is I have 2 children with possible ASD (one diagnosed) one mild one severe(diagnosed one) and the severe autistic dc has good pretend play skills while the mild one has none.

I guess its true no 2 autistic children are the same.

DS1 does. He makes up all sorts of scenarios for his lego creations.

And yy about social imagination.

And both of mine have ASD and are like chalk and cheese.

Dd1(autism) is starting to do 'pretend play' -at least at the surface. sounds very similar to Leonie's dd2 (minus the spanish )

Mine has a dx of classic autism, and has excellent imaginary play skills and always did. It isn't one of the dx criteria, so the CAHMS person needs retraining.