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<blockquote data-quote="SRL" data-source="post: 77184" data-attributes="member: 701"><p>Welcome Frustrated, I'm glad that you found us.</p><p></p><p>If you had described a 3 year old who wasn't complying with his preschool teacher's every demand, I wouldn't be concerned at all. 3 year old preschool isn't for every child--truthfully it's become more common as there are more mothers in the workforce and as education is being pushed at an earlier age. Some kids are ready, some kids aren't, and personally I wouldn't worry one iota about it if my child wasn't ready for preschool at age 3. I'd probably even take the comment about a new teacher needing help with a grain of salt.</p><p></p><p>However, what did catch my attention was the hand flapping along with some possible speech differences or delays. Both of these are red flags for Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) or Autistic Spectrum Disorders. While we commonly think of children with Autism as not developing speech child with the highest functioning form develop early speech but then often start to fall behind with higher skills such as answering and asking questions. (That was our first clue that something was amiss: my husband would come home and ask how my son's day was and he would answer "Yes.") 3 years, 3 months is still really young for speech in a boy but if I were in your shoes I would rather be safe than sorry because early speech help makes much further gains than waiting until they are older. Having a specialist in the area of occupational therapy do an assessment will also help you get a grasp on whether his self help skills are lagging due to motor skill problems.</p><p></p><p>When he repeats, is he echoing back as in if you ask "Would you like a cookie?" instead of saying "Yes" he's repeating the question back to you? This is called echolalia. It also often shows up in the form of kids repeating chunks of videos, tv, or books verbatim. At first it looks like a bright kid but it's a sign that they are struggling with developing normal verbal speech and they are inserting speech they've memorized instead.</p><p></p><p>We're just parents here so obviously we can't diagnose but we can point you in some directions to research. You might want to look around at the site below and see if it seems to fit anyone in your family tree. I also should emphasize that these traits don't always point to this cluster of disorders but the hand flapping especially would suggest to me it's worth checking out.</p><p><a href="http://www.aspergersyndrome.org/" target="_blank">http://www.aspergersyndrome.org/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRL, post: 77184, member: 701"] Welcome Frustrated, I'm glad that you found us. If you had described a 3 year old who wasn't complying with his preschool teacher's every demand, I wouldn't be concerned at all. 3 year old preschool isn't for every child--truthfully it's become more common as there are more mothers in the workforce and as education is being pushed at an earlier age. Some kids are ready, some kids aren't, and personally I wouldn't worry one iota about it if my child wasn't ready for preschool at age 3. I'd probably even take the comment about a new teacher needing help with a grain of salt. However, what did catch my attention was the hand flapping along with some possible speech differences or delays. Both of these are red flags for Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) or Autistic Spectrum Disorders. While we commonly think of children with Autism as not developing speech child with the highest functioning form develop early speech but then often start to fall behind with higher skills such as answering and asking questions. (That was our first clue that something was amiss: my husband would come home and ask how my son's day was and he would answer "Yes.") 3 years, 3 months is still really young for speech in a boy but if I were in your shoes I would rather be safe than sorry because early speech help makes much further gains than waiting until they are older. Having a specialist in the area of occupational therapy do an assessment will also help you get a grasp on whether his self help skills are lagging due to motor skill problems. When he repeats, is he echoing back as in if you ask "Would you like a cookie?" instead of saying "Yes" he's repeating the question back to you? This is called echolalia. It also often shows up in the form of kids repeating chunks of videos, tv, or books verbatim. At first it looks like a bright kid but it's a sign that they are struggling with developing normal verbal speech and they are inserting speech they've memorized instead. We're just parents here so obviously we can't diagnose but we can point you in some directions to research. You might want to look around at the site below and see if it seems to fit anyone in your family tree. I also should emphasize that these traits don't always point to this cluster of disorders but the hand flapping especially would suggest to me it's worth checking out. [URL]http://www.aspergersyndrome.org/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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