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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thank you all for your responses.

I should clarify or give examples of what I meant by he doesn’t know how to play. From what I understand, cognitive development can’t be measured directly so they use play and social interactions to gauge how cognitive development is progressing or not. At 17.5 months, DS does not put things into a container. Forget about shape sorters. He plays by spinning things (a small plate, a lid, a ball) and loves picking and dropping those things. He likes the baby musical toys that lots up. That’s the extent of his play. Tried reading to him and after two pages, he would close the book and treats it as a toy.

He is in an all day preschool (daycare center) in the toddler’s class. His teachers reported that he is unable to do things the rest of the class does. Painting with a brush for instance , or other sensory play like running a toy car over whipped cream. His PT and teacher from early intervention visit him at school as their approach is a coaching model. I can see why the developmental pediatrician puts him at 9 months as far as physical and cognitive development is concerned.

I just feel like there is something more to this global delay. I understand “intellectual disability” is a nicer term than “mental retardation” and it is very general umbrella term for a number of things. He is too young to get evaluated for a lot of things but if I read the early symptoms of intellectual disability, he seems to check all the boxes.

Some of the questions that were asked of us include if it was a normal pregnancy and yes it was. No alcohol consumption or drugs. I was asked if he has seizures, and no he doesn’t. He doesn’t wake up screaming either (apparently this happens if there is swelling in his head).

He is otherwise a more or less happy baby. Very sweet and loving, to us parents, at least.[/quote]

Failure to meet physical developmental goals is not a sign of intellectual disability.  And many kids with ID can accomplish those tasks easily.  ID becomes much more apparent as a child gets older.

What puzzles me about your post is that you seem to be caught up in a triad of autism, intellectual disability, and cerebral palsy.  There are many reasons why your child may be delayed in certain play areas that do not have anything to do with these three conditions.  Moreover, the fact that your child developmentally plays more like a 9 months old child is not a sign of ID.

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OP here. I mentioned these 3 because 2 were brought up to me by the pediatrician and PT and as I said in my previous posts, they don’t think he has CP or  autism and the pediatrician acknowledge that it is too soon to tell. I’m just bringing up ID as a possibility and hoping ppl on this board can share some light. I’m not really caught up in those three as you mentioned.[/quote]

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