Hi everyone, my little boy is 2 years 8 months and has been referred to our local developmental centre for an autism assessment but we have yet to see anyone and have been told there is a long wait for appointments.
My sons speech is extremely delayed, we currently have had 2 sessions of speech therapy via zoom with the NHS and also previously paid for private speech therapy however I think my son was too young at the time but are looking to start it up again.
He has a few words but these aren’t very clear and he doesn’t pronounce the whole word so for eg
Milk/ drink/ book/ stuck - he makes a kkk noise
Train- ain
Van/ fan- an
Zoom- mmm noise
Green- eeee noise
I was wondering if anyone else’s child spoke similarly and if they were diagnosed with a speech disorder? I feel like there is something else going on aside from the suspected autism but I just don’t know what.
Thank you x