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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of kids cant do those things at that age.  Your day care teachers are not being realistic. A child under two should not be pinging with a brush. I would do the MRI at this point, personally.[/quote]

Please don’t mitigate her concern. You may think you’re being reassuring but you’re gaslighting her into believing her very valid concerns and her knowledge about her own child are wrong. They are not. Kids can play and point and speak and move at this age. She is right to be concerned and right to be proactive. EI is critical at this age and people saying “lots of kids don’t talk or play or walk until 4 and then they’re in AP in high school” do parents and kids a disservice by convincing them to wait and see and waste that precious time. [/quote]

No one is mitigating the concern but the preschool teachers are not being developmentally appropriate to think that age can paint. [/quote]

And if you have read the OP you will note she has other standalone concerns and is only using the preschool teachers’ observations to substantiate her own worries. Holding a brush and being able to swipe it across paper is something kids this age can do. I would hand my kids paintbrushes with paint on it and let them do this at 11-12 months. No it’s not sophisticated painting but it’s a gross motor skill and he can’t do it in addition to other gross motor skills that children his age should be able to do. [/quote]

Great yours could, mine could not.  [/quote]

Nor can OP’s and it worries her AND the teachers ANDS the doctors seeing him. [/quote]

A young child not painting with a paint brush is not to be concerned. Not walking and babbling/starting to talk, yes, but painting is a bit absurd to worry about given the situation.[/quote]

I think you guys are misunderstanding the painting thing.  My child (later dxed with autism and a severe fine motor delay) did not do any fine motor skills as a toddler basically, other than self-feeding (because he was very intrinsically motivated to eat, lol!) If you'd seen him from 18 months-3 years you would have seen that he literally could not/would not make a mark on paper with a crayon or a paint brush.  This is likely what the daycare teachers are noting, because it is a very common daycare activity where his differences are apparent. 
 He started OT at around 4 and I clearly remember the day when he was around 4.5 and he scribbled on the wall at home - I was overjoyed!  In observing this, the daycare teachers are not trying to make painting with a paintbrush a developmental milestone, but are rather making an important observation about his fine motor skills and his social imitation.  [/quote]

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