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Subject: autism

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Christie

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Date Posted: 08:19:08 10/09/07 Tue

If I could give you any words of advise it would be this: Rely on your gut instinct. Don't go by your doctors words alone, doctors usually wait until the last minute to say, "let's send you to therapy". Important: Only one sign of a disorder is not a good reason to suspect something. If the hand flapping is all you notice, don't worry...but if there are a few things, or if you just have that gut feeling, check it out. If you have ANY concern at all, it would not hurt anything except you may be out an initial $70-100 for an Occupational Eval done by a pediatric Occupational Therapist. There are some that specialize in early intervention. That is the most important....EARLY. Don't wait until school age. They have to catch up on so much more. Then if you bring her to a qualified therapist, you will get a better feel for if there is something going on or not. There are many other things aside from autism (such as sensory integration) that could be the problem and is fairly easy to correct with EARLY intervention and therapy. AND if they tell you Emma is fine, you have your 2nd opinion.
My niece showed signs of a developmental delay around 6mos. I noticed because I worked with children at the time; her mother and I would discuss it from time to time and I would tell her...Just take her, talk to her doctor about what you see....Well it took her about 3 years to have the courage to ask the question as the doctor did not bring it up....After persistance from her mother that there might be something wrong, she went to the right channels, saw the right people and her daughter was diagnosed with PDD (pervasive developmental delay) which is on the Autism spectrum. Because she began various therapies (speech and OT), she is now so much more social, high functioning, school aged child and very close to the level she should be on. Without catching it early, she would be so far behind today.

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