Hi, as some of you may have seen in my last tread dd2 was seen by the paed last week and we were told she may have Autism. This morning i recieved a letter/report from last weeks apointment.
Feeling a bit as some parts are not quite true, anyway the letter says;
I saw *** in the presense of her mother at my community clinic, she is 2 years and 4 months of age and was refered by her health visiter.
Her mum is concered about her lack of speech. She can sometimes say 'mamma'. She is only doing noises like children of 1 years of age. She is copying noises she hears from others. She was refered to SALT and she is awaiting an appointment. She is also not responding to commands and she is not interested in listning to peoples conversations.
She is usually flapping her hands. She likes to line things up all the time, especialy toys rather than playing skilfully with them. She is lining the food up on her plate.
She is very obsessive with jigsaw puzzles and she could do them all day. She preferes to be in her own little world rather than communicating with others.
She is flexible with her routine and her eye contact is variable. She is sensitive to loud noise and physical touch. She has lack of imaginative play.
Otherwise she is healthy and well. She refused to be examined as she does not like physical touch.
I tried to do a developmental assesment and complete a schedule of growing skills. During this assessment she did not give any eye contact. She had difficulty to understand. I noticed she is still mouthing and her mum confirmed that she takes evrything to her mouth. She also did not engage in imaginative play. However she seems to be good in some of her visual skills, especially completing the puzzles and shape form board and the fish form board. She also matched four of the colours.
Her gross and fine motor skills are appropriate for her age.
Her hearing and language skills seem delayed. She could not point to the dolls body parts or her own body parts. She is not interested to know names for familiar objects or people.
Her self-care social skills are appropriate for her age.
Her congntive skills score at about 18 months of age.
It then goes on to say that she has been reffered etc..etc...
Anyway, i was upset as it stated that she does not like physical contact, this is not true as she loves to cuddle people. She said that she could not examine her, she did'nt realy try, dd was a bit wriggly but she could have examined her easily. She also said that i said she mouths at evrything, i told her that she does'nt do this much anymore but used to.
It all looks so much worse written down on paper and i'm realy worried about the future, i just hope SALT can help her.