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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 637020" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>From what I've found, there are a few possible early warning signs. By 12 months old, he should have expressive language of "mama" or "dada" to mean his mother or father. He doesn't. He says it, but it's not with meaning. He should be saying "no" and he's not. He doesn't even respond to "no". Responding to his name - he's a lot better than difficult child 3 was at this age, but I don't think he's on par with his peers.</p><p></p><p>He will indicate with his arm, pointing of a sort, which is a form of communication. That is good.</p><p></p><p>Repetitive play - there's a lot of it. And perseverative. For example, difficult child 3 has a collection of metal Tazo tops. He kept them in my bathroom where his pet bird used to play with them. Now BG3 plays with them in there, keeps picking them up and dropping them to hear them clang on the tiles. Over and over. He throws them into the shower, he climbs into the shower to throw them out again. I haven't timed him, but I think he can do this for 20 minutes or more at a time. He will play with other objects in a similar way. He bats at balls, blocks, anything. I bought a toy fishbowl which has three fish in it, which can be removed and dropped back in. He will pick out the fish and bet them around the floor. When I show him that putting the fish in the bowl makes the bowl play music, he watches the bowl play music then bats the bowl to make it sing again. He doesn't copy me in putting anything in the bowl. He doesn't get upset if I put the fish in the bowl, he just reaches in and takes them out again.</p><p></p><p>We get eye contact, but I don't know if we get the same amount as we should. I have no measure of normality. He is not good with strangers - not that he's shy, but he frowns at anyone he doesn't know, and he does not warm to them.</p><p></p><p>He can be affectionate with some people - he responds happily to mother in law (great grandma). He tries to engage you in a chase tickle game. </p><p></p><p>My friend who is a speech pathologist is unavailable for a week or so, but I will talk to her about my concerns and try to engineer a visit. I think if we go to visit her, it will be putting BG3 in a novel environment and that alone can be revealing.</p><p></p><p>I did the Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) questionnaire on childbrain.com (a useful resource). Because BG3 is only 12 months old, it is difficult to use any tools like this, but I did get a score of 90 for him which indicates mild Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD). Top score for mild, almost into moderate.</p><p></p><p>I'm not sounding alarm bells, but I do think it's time for at least a little caution and consideration of the possibility. If there's nothing wrong, then early intervention techniques won't do any harm. But knowing our health system here, I suspect we'll have to do it ourselves. </p><p></p><p>I'd already been doing a lot of SonRise techniques with BG3 anyway, such as sitting beside him and playing with the Tazo tops, or batting a ball to him and catching it as he bats it in turn. He's not batting it back to me, he's just hitting it, but I pretend he's hitting it to me and try to instigate turn-taking play.</p><p></p><p>There's a lot I can't do, because I'm not at home enough. I'd like to get the piano cleared out so I can play it for him and let him learn how it sounds. That's what I did for difficult child 3 and he learned to play very early as a result. BG3 does like music a lot, but his parents are into modern music and not the classical that a lot of babies really love. They did buy him a Mozart cube though, which he likes to play with.</p><p></p><p>But - absolutely no expressive language at all (other than waving bye bye and pointing). No verbal expressive language. And I think receptive language is poor.</p><p></p><p>So we'll see. The kids are interstate at the moment, so about the time they get back will be about the time my friend is available to quietly assess informally.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 637020, member: 1991"] From what I've found, there are a few possible early warning signs. By 12 months old, he should have expressive language of "mama" or "dada" to mean his mother or father. He doesn't. He says it, but it's not with meaning. He should be saying "no" and he's not. He doesn't even respond to "no". Responding to his name - he's a lot better than difficult child 3 was at this age, but I don't think he's on par with his peers. He will indicate with his arm, pointing of a sort, which is a form of communication. That is good. Repetitive play - there's a lot of it. And perseverative. For example, difficult child 3 has a collection of metal Tazo tops. He kept them in my bathroom where his pet bird used to play with them. Now BG3 plays with them in there, keeps picking them up and dropping them to hear them clang on the tiles. Over and over. He throws them into the shower, he climbs into the shower to throw them out again. I haven't timed him, but I think he can do this for 20 minutes or more at a time. He will play with other objects in a similar way. He bats at balls, blocks, anything. I bought a toy fishbowl which has three fish in it, which can be removed and dropped back in. He will pick out the fish and bet them around the floor. When I show him that putting the fish in the bowl makes the bowl play music, he watches the bowl play music then bats the bowl to make it sing again. He doesn't copy me in putting anything in the bowl. He doesn't get upset if I put the fish in the bowl, he just reaches in and takes them out again. We get eye contact, but I don't know if we get the same amount as we should. I have no measure of normality. He is not good with strangers - not that he's shy, but he frowns at anyone he doesn't know, and he does not warm to them. He can be affectionate with some people - he responds happily to mother in law (great grandma). He tries to engage you in a chase tickle game. My friend who is a speech pathologist is unavailable for a week or so, but I will talk to her about my concerns and try to engineer a visit. I think if we go to visit her, it will be putting BG3 in a novel environment and that alone can be revealing. I did the Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) questionnaire on childbrain.com (a useful resource). Because BG3 is only 12 months old, it is difficult to use any tools like this, but I did get a score of 90 for him which indicates mild Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD). Top score for mild, almost into moderate. I'm not sounding alarm bells, but I do think it's time for at least a little caution and consideration of the possibility. If there's nothing wrong, then early intervention techniques won't do any harm. But knowing our health system here, I suspect we'll have to do it ourselves. I'd already been doing a lot of SonRise techniques with BG3 anyway, such as sitting beside him and playing with the Tazo tops, or batting a ball to him and catching it as he bats it in turn. He's not batting it back to me, he's just hitting it, but I pretend he's hitting it to me and try to instigate turn-taking play. There's a lot I can't do, because I'm not at home enough. I'd like to get the piano cleared out so I can play it for him and let him learn how it sounds. That's what I did for difficult child 3 and he learned to play very early as a result. BG3 does like music a lot, but his parents are into modern music and not the classical that a lot of babies really love. They did buy him a Mozart cube though, which he likes to play with. But - absolutely no expressive language at all (other than waving bye bye and pointing). No verbal expressive language. And I think receptive language is poor. So we'll see. The kids are interstate at the moment, so about the time they get back will be about the time my friend is available to quietly assess informally. Marg [/QUOTE]
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