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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. thanks to everyone for your answers, those really help. One question though. If you initially spoke to your child in English only, how did you explain to him/her the switch to the other language? Thanks[/quote]

OP, we enrolled our child in an bilingual immersion school at 4 yrs old and explained about learning another language in school and gradually started to incorporate Spanish at home.  My child was initially upset about school (for about a month) and I did notice some slowing down in English acquisition but is back on track now (according to teachers, my observations and S&L testing).

Again, I think you should be clear what your child's language problems and skills are, by that I mean how is their receptive, expressive and pragmatic language?  ASD kids are not the same, therefore a spectrum.  My child consistently scores over the 90th percentile for receptive, low average for expressive and below average for pragmatic (he was diagnosed with Aspeger's) and bilingualism has increased his expressive language to average.  Pragmatic is still a problem, but our team of medical experts and therapists agree that this would be the same in a monolingual environment.  We work on social skills in S&L therapy to address this component of language.  The other ASD child in my kid's class was diagnosed with autism and is moderately functioning.  The child seems to have at least average receptive language skills and is doing well in an inclusion mainstream classroom (according to the mother and my cursory observations) but clearly has problems with expressive and pragmatic language.  If my child was significantly language delayed in receptive (especially) and expressive language I would be cautious about introducing another language until they have caught up some more.  I think you said your child is 3 so I believe you do have time as I am using 4 and 5 yr old children as an example.  [/quote]

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