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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My current 34 months son has been seen & evaluated by a developmental psychologist & also a developmental pediatrician from children hospital since last year summer. Still, no one has given him ASD diagnosis yet even though they are suspicious of it.

Each evaluation is ranged from 1 hour to 3 hours. He has severe expressive delays, not awesome eye contact, some flagging hands/tiptoe walking, loves abc/numbers/shapes/colors, loves to play with kids/adults, and also he does not understand personal boundaries (too friendly to strangers). No one can give diagnosis yet because he could be just a normal kid with some delays, per professionals.

Even though everyone (his daycare teachers, speech therapists, pediatrician & friends/family) say he is not ASD, but we still keep seeing them every couple months for evaluation. He is on the waiting list for ADOS test now, could be a year of waiting. We will see how it goes. Someone tell me that it is difficult to give ASD diagnosis to a young kid unless the symptoms are really obvious or just like the textbooks ones.[/quote]

PP here. Forgot to mention that both professionals comment that he is too social & affectionate (loves to give hugs, hold hands, grab strangers legs) even to selective strangers in a new environment. He smiles & laugh all the time, feeling comfortable & not feeling nervous at all in a new environment surrounded by strangers as long as he can play. He enjoys companies, and love to interact with others (kids & adults) & super good in pretend-play. They are concerned the most is he is too affectionate to strangers, and his 11 daycare kids' parents are all hugged by him already within the first 2 weeks. Even the daycare administration knows who he is because he loves to visit them daily at drop off/pick up.[/quote]

sounds like a great kid :) the concern about being "too affectionate" is likely that he doesn't understand "normal" social boundaries - which could be a sign of social delays.  Things will become much more clear over the next 2 years as you can see how he's developing and what kind of support (if any) he needs to be in a regular classroom.  In the  meantime, one of the best things as a parent you can do is spend a lot of time observing how he interacts with other children, and how other children interact with each other.  in my experience 3 can be a really hard age to discern what's going on, because all the kids have some areas where they're still babies.  by 5-6 you can see much more of what an "average" kid looks like.  [/quote]

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