Another imaginary play thread

[Barmymummy]

Sorry, I know this has probably been done to death BUT....!

DS has very very limited imaginary play, none in fact if I'm honest that he can make up from scratch himself. But...when he plays with his toys he will either sing songs or copy what he has seen his sister do/play with him. So for example today he was in the sand pit up to his eyeballs in muck and bullets and pushing his toy truck along the edge of the sandpit reciting his Charlie & Lola book. When playing with his trains he says things like "come on Percy, off to bed then" which he has heard his sister say when she was playing with them.

Was just wondering if this is a step up from no imaginary play at all or whether this is just applied delayed echolalia iykwim!

Were told by hosp that his first SALT/Paed appt should be through for late May so getting there slowly!

See jimjamshaslefttheyurt's explanation on this thread

www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=special_needs&threadid=649110-I-want-to-quot-assess-quot-where-DS2-is-b efore#13210621

Do you ever think the mumsnet SN board ought to be commissioned to rewrite some of the stuff that's out there?

I have that thread bookmarked lingle. It makes me depressed though, because DS at the moment is really flexible, but the post I was reading by jimjam about the paeditrician's visit seemed to be saying that things can only change for the worse in that department

Oh no I don't think she wasn't saying that..... she has name-changed but might post if she sees this.

lingle, I really liked that article about asperger's and girls... though scarily, I identified with one of the paragraphs ... but also could see my lovely supposedly nt dd in there too.... I think having the awareness of this kind of info is good.

my dh is still very much in touch with his inner child (peter pan complex)... but I do think having children keeps our imaginative sides going!