My son is 3 years 9 month old and he
practically doesn't speak (he uses only
about 10 simple words, and not for telling
something meaningful, but to "play").
There are no problems with hearing. Being
8 month old he spoke "mamma", imitated the
crow, now he doesn't. He understands the
speech well, knows the names of almost all
things in the house. If he want, he obeys
all instructions, for example, brings the
required thing. Often it is necessary to
repeat the order several times. He is
less active and smart than children of the
same age. Only recently he had learned to
spring. Presently he does well the tasks
like "to insert the figured object into
the figured hole", which he could not do
one year ago. He cannot draw and
doesn’t want to. It is possible to draw
holding him by the hand, but without
assistance he draws several lines and
there is an end to it, and it happens
seldom. He seldom was ill comparing to
other children and not seriously. He is
squeamish in eating, eats only porridge,
farinaceous foods, pastry, meat, yoghurt,
and doesn't like fruits except the apples
and bananas. He has periodic
constipation-like state. Normally he has
the stool every 2-3 days, otherwise we
give him an enema. The need of social
intercourse appeared only about 2 months
ago. Previously (1year ago) he preferred
to walk along the streets for a distance
of about 3 km. Now he likes walking too,
but if there are children outdoors, he can
play with them. It is very hard to teach
him elementary self-service. He plays
with mechanical toys (cars) and in the
street looks at cars too. He likes when a
car comes across hatch on the road with
noise. At home he takes a coin and "come
across" it with the toy car. Formerly he
liked to rotate around his axis, but when
we said to him that it is not allowed, he
ceased to do it. He is indifferent to
music, except if there are original noises
like xylophone or bells. He likes
numbers, can count up to 3, further makes
errors, but knows the number names up to
100, can type on computer 1,2,3 etc. Till
30-40. He doesn't take great interest in
cartoon films, watches only "tom and
jerry" and likes television commercials
very much. It is very hard to take tv
control panel from him. His character
became recently more quiet – previously
he often cried, fought, threw anything.
One year ago he didn't feel upset about
separating from parents, could walk
anywhere with anybody, wasn't afraid of
dogs and darkness. Now, when the mother
goes to work, sometimes he cries. He
looks like a person which doesn't need
anything and chooses his interests by
himself. Also he usually forces other
people to do his work instead of doing it
himself. Doctor's advices could not help
to find a definite answer – some talk
about "development delay" or autism, the
speech therapist's opinion is "severe
alalia". I think that our local doctor is
not a great specialist in this area of
knowledge, because I live in the west of
ukraine (ex-ussr). What can I do? What
it's looking like? Thank you for your
help, and i'm sorry for my terrible
english.
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lynn74
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 71 Location: sydney australia
Posted: 07-13-05 11:14am
Read up on aspergers syndrome on the net
and its effect on children its related to
autism
has his hearing been tested?
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breezy2
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 13 Location: portland
Hi Posted: 07-13-05 12:29pm
I know just what you're going through...My
daughter did the same thing, barely spoke
until she was 5, then started to progress
but was always in special ed since age of
2, now she's 19 and has mild autism, she
works bagging groceries and looks normal
but doesn't get the gray areas of speech
still, but she's so beautiful and sweet
and cooperative and loving and she will
always live with me because that makes her
vulnerable in a cruel world but also a
delight in a way...She'll always be my
companion whereas my friends' children and
my other children have gone (or will go)
on their own...I was sad for many years
about this, but am reconciled with it...My
family rejected her though she's
wonderful, all I hear is that autism is on
the rise and we don't know why exactly,
and what I would contribute is that your
son may have areas of genius like my
daughter does, the boys are usually
glorious to look at, for some reason they
are amongst the most beautiful
children...And it's critical you get him
into special education as early as
possible, there will be place for him if
he does have autism in your heart and
somewhere in the world, it will be
ok---trust your instincts over the
doctors...You know he needs special help
now, so seek that out as well as medical
advice take care and god bless
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ktsl123
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 12 Location: chicago
I Read Your Post On Your Child Posted: 11-18-05 16:19pm
Did your child get the mmr
vaccine?......It is linked to autism...
I think the goverment tries to hide it
because they don't want these diseases
spreading.......If you type in google "mmr
causes autism"
for the first several pages there is
website stating that mmr does not cause
it, but if you research far enough you
will find stuff saying that it is very
possibe that mmr does cuase autism.
I also read up that in areas that have
mercury power plants autism has risen
(mercury is in mmr).
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logicroad
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 26 Dec 2005 Posts: 21 Location: Greece, Salonica