3 year old ripping clothes

Ross_Scope said:

Hello and welcome to the community @jodieleat

Not an area I have any knowledge or experience of, but I'm sure many of our members will have useful information to share  

How is the process of getting your son diagnosed going? Will it be long now before you have it?

I have tagged your post as unanswered so that more people will hopefully see it.

Thank you. Getting his diagnosis is going well. He’s been under the development centre at the hospital since he was a baby as he was late meeting some milestones and wasn’t ‘fixing and following’ (unless it was lights) when he was very small. It was only last year that I had the realisation that his behaviours and communication difficulties were signs of autism. I spoke to his nursery and they confirmed my thoughts. I then spoke to his consultant and she was in agreement. She did refer him for a hearing test just to rule it out as a cause for his communication. Though it’s unlikely because he repeats sentences word for word and often in the intonation that it was originally said. And then continues to repeat these sentences for weeks. He did have a cold at the time of his hearing test so they couldn’t fully complete it so we’re waiting for another appointment. His consultant is waiting on this and has said she wanted to speak to the SLT that he’s had some work with just in case they think there might be another reason. But she does think he has autism. So it shouldn’t be too long. Which is great because his nursery SENCO have already started working with him and the diagnosis will mean they can better support him.