Could my daughter have asbergers syndrome ?

[mummyloveslucy]

Hi, I don't know alot about autism/asbergers, other than asbergers is a mild form of autism.
My daughters behavious is some times unusuall. She looks forward to parties, but crys and refuses to join in when she's there. She dosn't like changes to her routeen and if something happens that she didn't expect, she'll have a huge tantrum. She also tells strangers on the bus, in shops etc that she loves them. She often says to someone she's only just met "I love you all the world". This is not for attention, as she seems very sinceer about it. She likes adults, and can be very extroverted around adults, but seems very insecure around other children. She does love babys though. She's very affectionate and a bit over the top hugging every baby in a pram she sees.
She has verbal dyspraxia, so it's hard to really chat to her about things.
My Mum has a friend who works with autistic children and when she met my daughter when she was 2.5 she mentioned to my Mum, she thought my daughter had some traits.
She is very loving though so I'm not sure.
What do you think?

She also hates certain noises. She crys when I vaccume, and swiches off if there is background noise. Not sure if this is related to anything.

it can be very hard to unpick whether a language problem is affecting social/behaviour issues, or whether it is more than that (as having difficulty with being understood would frustrate anyone), so I couldn't really speculate. I would say given you have have some concerns speak to the paed about this next time you see him (IIRC Lucy is under a paed).

Yes, we are due to see him soon. I just wondered if there was anything more to it, as she dosn't seem to know what's appropriate. She also gets confused with male and female.
She often says things which don't make sence either. When I repeate it back, she says "yes".
I'm making a list, but don't want to be barking up the wrong tree, or mentioning things which arn't relevant.

How's your little boy btw? I hope he's o.k.

SALT closed his case last week as he's within normal range on their assessments . I'm not 100% convinced, as he still has receptive language issues, and also his intonation isn't quite right (even SALT and school agree about that). So will be looking at some private SALT sessions over summer.

It's so not right you should have to do that. I think they are always trying to save money and not thinking about what's best for the children.
My daughters been working on the "f" sound now for 8 months. Just that one sound, no others. She is in a small group of children all learning that one sound, isn't that convienient?

Can you ask his school and SALT to back you up, perhaps wright a letter?

Good luck with everything, it's not easy getting your children the help they need.