ok, i had posted a couple of weeks earlier and as my anxiety did not reduce and we managed to get an appointment with daphne keen too - we have now got a 'label' for ds (nearly 15 months now). he has a 'working' diagnosis of asd (as there were some positives in his favour) and while only time will tell as all the posters here have suggested to me earlier (on how he fares), we want to get some early intervention started.
She mentioned getting specialist salt help, try hanen and then working on his play routines (so he can go through the whole pretend play and learn to play with his toys etc).I asked about ABA-VB and she seemed to think it was more suited towards improving behavioural issues.
Areas of concern/ things we would like the therapy to help ds with are:
- no/little receptive language,
- no words,
- does not share much attention,
- little interest in toys except for putting things in and out of the box and throwing things down the stairs (which we quite enjoy as it is good exercise going up and down collecting things ).
- He is fairly warm at the moment, but i feel (maybe paranoia) that he is getting a little distance. Like few days when i've come home from work, he's been excited to see me and then walked off.
I'd like to get some input from experienced mnnetters on potential therapies we could explore. I had already got in touch with floortime and they looked v. interesting, but more I read it seems there is less evidence backing it up than ABA. But I am surprised as to why the paed did not think ABA-VB would be the way to go given the positive experience of many on this forum too.
Also i came across postings by asdx2 - i cannot contact you, but would be grateful for your reply. You mentioned you started ABA with your 17month old dd and had quite successful results. What areas do you think the aba worked on and what aba did you use?
finally, i work full time is it really possible to run an ABA-VB program whilst full-time at work. Can I find tutors to also come around on saturdays, so I can work on sundays myself? I ask because I am about to change jobs for a better paying one. If I do take up that job, I would be able to afford private treatment and therapies, but i'll have to work full-time and then a new place would be less flexible/cognizant of my problems. At my current job, i could easily move to working only 4 days a week, though that would mean even less money for the therapies.
Thank you all in advance for your help.