Hi, I have posted this thread about 20 minutes ago, but I can't find it anywhere, so my apologies if it is duplicated. I am new to mumsnet, and not so good with IT.
I have a son who had an childhood autism diagnosis at 2.5. He is now 3.10 and verbal, talks in 4-6 words sentences, communticates his needs really well,so no guessing work any more and less tantrums. he has started ABA therapy 10hrs a week 3 months ago and it's been amazing). He is a different child and so far no learning difficulties have been detected. His main areas of difficulties are question differentiation, not asking any question yet(did ask where question for a while, now stopped, not being able to have two way conversations. His therapist has recommended that we increase his hours for him to catch up with his peers before starting full time school. This is where the problem comes, as we can't afford to pay for extra hours and even if we remortgage to increase hours, they can't do any extra hours with him due to lack of time on their part. So only way we can increase his hours by me spending more times with him. Unfortunately, I can't personally attend any courses as we have recently moved out of the UK (although it's a blessing since we only had two SALTs visits in the year following his diagnosis). So I am hoping that MN could recommend online courses on ABA or speech and language therapy so I can get the basics. My DS has problem with receptive language. We also have the unfortunate problem of school not having any special need provision here, so we are having to do as much as we can at home.
Any advice will be appreciated.