I'll try and keep this as brief as possible. 8-yr old ds (with ASD diagnosis at age about 4) in a good sn school in Surrey area. Tried doing early intervention ourself between 2013 to 2014, no obvious progress despite great efforts from mum. During this period, mum had suffered a lot mentally and physically. From 2014, he was admitted to this sn school. We felt it was a very good school. But development hasn't been seen and we realized that he is the most disadvantaged child in his class, barely any vocalisations. The class has limited access to SaLT and OT every week, then even less share to him. The head kept saying that language is not the most important thing for an ASD child. But now we're really worrying that we haven't provide enough support to his language development. We were wondering whether it is too late to make intervention again. But we felt we must do intervention now (don't want to say too late) to give it another go with private lessons and try to move him to another school with ABA and more emphasis to SaLT.
Can anyone advise on good SaLT in Surrey area and possibly private lesson (ABA friendly)? Many thanks.