Spent the day with DN yesterday. It is obvious that something is wrong in terms of her development. She is three years old, pretty much non verbal given half a chance. She will clap at my DSis if she wants something or shout half a word. Most of the day she clapped at people and shouted Cud (meaning she wanted to be picked up). She can say some words but clearly has difficulty with various sounds. We were looking at a cookery book together talking about the food and she said hi for fish and be for bread. Each sound is kind of forced out.
She seems to understand what is being said to her but mainly just nods or shakes her head. If she doesn't get attention immediately she gets very angry and aggressive.
She was slow to walk, a friend of a friend who is a nurse thought she might have problems with her hips when she saw her in the street.
My DSis knows something is wrong but the GP being helpful. They thought she might have cerebral palsy initially but have now said they don't think so. Hearing test apparently came back fine and she does seem to be able to hear without difficulty.
Any thoughts. We we discussing yesterday and thought maybe autism? DSis is basically at a loss as to what to do. DSis used to be a Montessori nursery teacher so knows that developmentally DN is way behind where she would expect her to be. Does this sound like it could be autism?
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Can anyone who knows about autism help re DN?
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Virgil · 26/12/2012 10:03
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