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Registered: 03-17-2005
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Sat, 10-13-2007 - 3:26pm

My son just tuned 3 and has several red flags for Autsim but I am wondering

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Registered: 05-16-2006
In reply to: rylandsmama
Sat, 10-13-2007 - 10:35pm

Hi and welcome to the board. Your ped doc can't DX your child. THey will refer you to a developmetal specialist who will assess your chidl to determin where IF your child meets the "spectrum" ranges.


All our kids on this board had some of the same and not the same "quirks" about them as a baby. We can't per say give your kid a lable BUT it's VERY important to seek help IF he is labled....the sooner the better.


My son had poor to NO speech and was clumsy, he lost eye contact blah blah blah---------at the end of the day my gut feeling told me this wasn't right.


Got him evaled thru early intervention at 2 1/2 and they recommed us goto our children's hospital for a formal eval.............they he got labled with PDD.


He gets inhome help and goes to spec ed preschool 3x a week and gets speech and OT.


He is 4 now, still not potty trained but we are working on it.


He has gotten better, but there is a LONG road ahead.


Good luck to you.