When is ds 7 carrie ? He’s in year 2 isn’t he?
Move him to his specialist school, then re evaluate, see what they offer to help.
I can imagine at your ds current school he is the only or one of the only, non verbal child they have. (Assumption on my part, but non verbal children in mainstream are fairly rare. They are usually in specialist) so they won’t have much of an idea of what to do other than basic stuff, or stuff they are told to try by visiting agencies which is still usually basic.
You’ll find a lot of the children are non verbal or pre verbal in a specialist school so the teachers have tons more experience with it all. They used specific programmes for them. As I say, ds is in a year 3/4 class (mixed years) 3 of the children are completely non verbal. some are preverbal and ds and 2 others speak well.
Must be hard for you. Not knowing if he ever will speak or not.
I actually logged on to say I hope he’s ok tonight, ds had croup loads when he was younger and the nights were horrid. Usually spent in a&e getting steroids, I couldn’t drive then and my brother had to take us, regularly. Ds started calling his car uncles X’s taxi! It was like a Sunday night tradition, a&e with ds and my brother and a kfc on the way home! He was a complete germ bag when he was little.