Crossroads\" post_id=\"1893666\" time=\"1547019719\" user_id=\"174779:Hi CR, thanks for sharing your story. Our boy is having many things in common with yours and we also suspect he is having ASD. He is 2 years old and has very little eye contact, rarely looks at our eyes while we are talking to him, or responds to his name. He is able to say a number of letters of the alphabet, say several words of objects but has not been able to initiate calling or pointing things by himself. His gross and fine motor skills seem fine.
Dear Parents,
I am father of a 4 year boy who was assessed by KKH a year ago. The developmental paediatric doc there suggested he has ASD. he was exactly 3yrs 4 months at the time. When he was between 2 and 3 years old, we did notice odd signs but made the mistake of assuming those were normal delays - until we saw a doc who noticed some key behavioural issues. What we noticed were issues like: not answering to his name, keeping to himself, not responding to requests. At KKH at age 3.4 yrs, many other aspects were observed like very less eye contact, 1-2 word speech only, not understanding verbal cues, lining up cars, not being able to jump, not expressing himslef at all, not poinitng.
Fast fwd to now at 3 yr 11months, after interventions of 6 days a week (social,behavioral and kiddie gym), my son is able to talk 5-8 word sentences, responds 7-8/10 times to his name or to requests, expresses almost all his needs well, enjoys playing with peers/friends downstairs but does limit fully interacting with peers, has 70-80% eye contact, happy and cheerful most of the time (as always), comments while we read books, rarely lines up cars. At school however, his teacher mentions that he barely talks to peers- only sometimes. But he does respond to her questions and instructions. And is on par academically (its just Nursery1 though).
With his progress in 7months of intervention, we are now wondering if it's truly ASD. Could anyone share their experiences if you have had improvements at similar pace? i would still continue with interventions no matter what, as we are still searching for ways to being him on par with NTs, but would like to hear your experiences.
Also, we have seen him improve in spurts every 2.5-3 months. In his last spurt when there were no interventions (due to 1.5 month holidays from mid Nov) was when we saw his best spurt where we saw him speak more and more and express more.
A long one sorry, hope to hear from you. Thanks for reading.
We have just started early intervention for him. It is a private intervention center and all are home-based 2-hour lessons.
I am just wondering if any special behavioral test/assessment was done to suggest or diagnose him having ASD? And may I know if your boy's intervention sessions (6 days a week) are all at KKH? Thanks