Cut a long story short my ds1 has been going thru diagnoses procedure for over a year, we moved areas so had to start again........anyhow he saw the community paed in dec who said she could see he was on the spectrum (HF ASD) and as was approaching school in sept, didn't feel the need for a full multiple disciplinary assessment, however to cross the t's and dot the i's she would send a specialist salt into his nursery to do an observation and all meet this month to do an assessment and give diagnoses. Also she believed that his speech although excellent probably wasn't on par with his understanding and they would not be at the same level.
Salt went into nursery last week and told staff she was confused as to why she was even there as ds was giving eye contact (something we've been working on) and that he interacted well with two boys and chatting to her ........then the paed rings today as I've had issues with sleep and says that the salt report will affect getting a diagnoses as he should display behaviours at all times.
I'm so annoyed that this could set it all back, how can this salt judge him on one hour in a nursery that's very small and have worked well with ds to get him to join in, and early years advisor wrote a report separately saying that he echoed a lot and was over familiar with her and did not understand personal space and he used the same long sentence two or three times over that sounded 'learnt'.
Any advice on what to say at next appointment, at home he has echo and delayed echo and repeats words all the time, I infant recorded him on my phone saying co-op over and over whilst flapping will this help? Just want it to be all sorted before school and annoyed that professionals sound like friends and family saying oh well he talks so well but not seeing what I do.
Feels better even just writing that down so thanks for reading......if you got this far lol xx