Just received SaLT report for my almost 6 year old.
It says his speech and language skills are slighty delayed but describes either herself or the teachers observing the following:
"He sometimes plays alongside his peers, talking to himself rather than them. He responds to his peers request to play however he is happy to play alone".
As he now has a red haired friend and as red is his favourite colour and this friend has other friends that he follows round the SalT describes his social interaction skills as improving.
She has told the SEN officer that he doesn't have ASD hence their refusal to assess.
She goes on to say that he has good eye contact, modulates his voice, shows empathy, interacts with adults spontaneously and enthusiatically.
However his class teacher says that he does not initiate conversation, although he is enthusiastic when he talks about his DS. He is in a mixed year group and when his teacher calss his year group he stays sitting down. If he needs a straw for his milk he won't ask. That he sometimes seems in a different timeframe in conversations.
It is so confusing....
Can a child be just delayed with social interaction and not have ASD (he has 3 siblings and went to preschool for 2 years before school so hasn't been social isolated before or anything) he has had help with small group games and buddy schemes and I have heard.
At home he likes to be first ect and have everything just so everytime.