Anonymous wrote:Hey OP. My child sounds somewhat like yours with high functioning autism. My son’s difficulties are mostly social and functional language. Assuming there isn’t financial hardship, I would definitely do OT and SLP private pay. At the very least, do an evaluation with them to see where your child is relative to expected at that age. We pay with HSA and it’s $70 for 30min of speech and $140 for an hour of OT. My son is sensory seeking so we’re working on that in OT. Both offer good guidance. I observe what exercises the therapists do and try to do as much as possible at home.
I’d say generally all the therapies are worth considering but may not be accessible without official diagnosis.
3-4 for us has been huge in terms of progress especially in the last couple of months. Improvements in receptive language, still scripting but speaking more functionally than before, and less tantrums. I’m very hopeful for my son. He will be starting inclusion pre-k this fall.
My child did not do well in school setting due to lack of 1:1. I’m taking a break from my career to spend time with him. I’m hoping with the improvements he’ll do better in the classroom setting this fall.
Good for you - very hopeful experience. We have also seen our DS from 3-4 this year, similar experience, except we're still two full-time working parents which we hope to continue in order to provide the financial resources needed to support him because it is all mostly private pay.
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