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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not OP, but same situation here. My 18 months old boy does not respond to his name, good eye contact, great gross/fine motor skills, loves pretend play/human interaction/greeting people, and only has few words. We speak 3 languages at home, and he grabs things by himself, and rarely doing the pointing (he does point at moon/star/bird/dog in the sky once in a while). His pediatrician refer us to do autism screening because mainly he does not respond to his name & not pointing enough. May I ask how ENT do the hearing test for toddler because my little one cries hysterically & not cooperating everytime at doctor office?[/quote]

Not sure why you're not doing the autism evaluation if your pediatrician suggested it.  Not responding to one's name and not pointing "enough" could possibly be signals of autism, but there's so many factors related to social and communication behaviors and repetitive movements that need to be evaluated as well.  For example if you do the autism evaluation at kennedy Krieger at Johns Hopkins for example, it's a multi-day process with participation of a developmental pediatrician, a physical therapist and a speech therapist.  It's not something Internet strangers can evaluate for you after reading a few sentences from you.[/quote]

Because it's expensive? Because her gut tells her it's wrong? Because she can always do it later? Because evaluations for autism under 2 years old are wrong as often as they are right?

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