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My 3 year old has echolalia with intonation, there are times when he keeps repeating the same thing. Does echolalia always mean GLP?

How were your GLP kids at 3 years old and how are they now? Are they conversational?

Mine can follow handful of instructions related to routines like " Give me ___" "Pick up ___" "Hold my hand" " Go sit in the car" "Bring your shoes" " Wash your hands" etc. However, he still struggles to understand long complex sentences, he can recognize words in those sentences but can't seem to figure out what entire sentence means. He can communicate with 2-3 word phrases. Also has some gibberish. Not conversational or asking questions yet.

My 3 year old gets too distracted by the environment when we go outside and everytime I leave his hand, he wanders off aimlessly without checking back in and wont respond to name during those moments. Once I followed him to see where he runs. He just ran and ran and then randomly sat on a chair?? We went to the hospital, he sat for 5 mins and then started running without a purpose, he would just go check all rooms, touch everything (He isnt distressed or anxious in those moments) He has been like that ever since he started crawling, he would sometimes resist me holding him and would crawl away too.

So do ADHD kids do this or this is specific to autism?

Hi everyone

We are looking for some advice and experiences regarding support for our 4-year-old child in Aarhus

Our child has ASD and ADHD. He is very bright, has strong learning abilities and good cognitive skills, but he struggles with attention, hyperactivity, and eloping/running away during outdoor play or in busy environments.

We would really appreciate hearing from parents who have experience with the system in Aarhus:

How does the support process work through the kommune?

Can a child receive extra support or a personal assistant in kindergarten/school because of attention difficulties and eloping behaviour?

How supportive are mainstream kindergartens and schools in Aarhus for children with ASD/ADHD?

Are there good inclusive kindergartens or schools you would personally recommend?

How do schools usually accommodate children who are academically capable but need help with regulation, attention and safety?

Is support generally good in Aarhus Kommune, and how do you start asking for help from the kommune or PPR?

Any advice about meetings with schools/daycare or getting the right support early would be very appreciated.

We want our child to stay in a mainstream environment if possible, with the right support and understanding around his needs.

Thank you.

Moving to Aalborg from Helsinki with 4 year old autistic child

Hi everyone

We are looking for some advice and experiences regarding support for our 4-year-old child in Aalborg.

Our child has ASD and ADHD. He is very bright, has strong learning abilities and good cognitive skills, but he struggles with attention, hyperactivity, and eloping/running away during outdoor play or in busy environments.

We would really appreciate hearing from parents who have experience with the system in Aalborg:

How does the support process work through the kommune?

Can a child receive extra support or a personal assistant in kindergarten/school because of attention difficulties and eloping behaviour?

How supportive are mainstream kindergartens and schools in Aalborg for children with ASD/ADHD?

Are there good inclusive kindergartens or schools you would personally recommend?

How do schools usually accommodate children who are academically capable but need help with regulation, attention and safety?

Is support generally good in Aalborg Kommune, and how do you start asking for help from the kommune or PPR?

Any advice about meetings with schools/daycare or getting the right support early would be very appreciated.

We want our child to stay in a mainstream environment if possible, with the right support and understanding around his needs.

Thank you.

Hi everyone

We are looking for some advice and experiences regarding support for our 4-year-old child in Aalborg.

Our child has ASD and ADHD. He is very bright, has strong learning abilities and good cognitive skills, but he struggles with attention, hyperactivity, and eloping/running away during outdoor play or in busy environments.

We would really appreciate hearing from parents who have experience with the system in Aalborg:

How does the support process work through the kommune?

Can a child receive extra support or a personal assistant in kindergarten/school because of attention difficulties and eloping behaviour?

How supportive are mainstream kindergartens and schools in Aalborg for children with ASD/ADHD?

Are there good inclusive kindergartens or schools you would personally recommend?

How do schools usually accommodate children who are academically capable but need help with regulation, attention and safety?

Is support generally good in Aalborg Kommune, and how do you start asking for help from the kommune or PPR?

Any advice about meetings with schools/daycare or getting the right support early would be very appreciated.

We want our child to stay in a mainstream environment if possible, with the right support and understanding around his needs.

Thank you.

My child is 3, diagnosed with ASD. He responds to name, makes eye contact with familiar people, can point to request and share. He has some understading for people, nouns and some verbs. He does not understand sentences or complex language or past, future or abstract ideas. He is taking speech therapy (3 times a month) and the progress is slow so I want to work with him at home.

Has anyone gone through this? What helped?

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Hello everyone. I'm from Finland and we are relocating to Norway (Stavanger) with our 4 year old child diagnosed with autism, pretty high functioning and semi-verbal with significant behavioural challenges rooted in anxiety (disruptive, tantrums, whiny, attention issues etc). We speak Finnish and English and my child only knows Finnish.

I want to know what kind of support services and education is available for kids on the spectrum?

Thank you

Hello everyone. I'm from Finland and we are relocating to Norway (probably Stavanger/Sola/Sandnes) with our 4 year old child diagnosed with autism, pretty high functioning and semi-verbal with significant behavioural challenges rooted in anxiety (disruptive, tantrums, whiny, attention issues etc). We speak Finnish and English and my child only knows Finnish.

I want to know what kind of support services and education is available for kids on the spectrum?

Thank you

Hello, my child recently got diagnosed so I'm new to understanding autism.

Why does my 3 year old behaves like a 1 year old? Can anyone help me understand? He doesn't have any visible body stims or movements.

How it presents in him:

-Gibberish/baby self talk and then laughing.

-Vocal/verbal stimming when outside. - Random laughing like sounds when we go out (maybe a stim?)

-Random anger outbursts followed by laughter

-Poor emotional regulation.

-Poor impulse control. Bolts off in public places when I grab him, he resists, lies on the floor

- Low frustration tolerance.

- No turn taking or sharing.

- Attention to people is so poor. He would be jumping, running in a room when people are talking not paying attention to what anyone is saying or doing. It's really difficult to get his attention. Also, not potty trained due to this.

-Responds to name 70% of the time but not when he is focused on something.

-Can stay on preferred activities for 6-7 minutes.

-When he is anxious, starts climbing furniture, jumping aroumd, laughing.

-Slamming doors then laughing when stopped

-Resists making eye contact with new people.

- Hates it when someone teaches him anything which leads to tantrums, meltdowns.

-Throws objects in the air when angry.

-Constant anger/whining all day long.

-Does weird things like putting fingers in his mouth and triggering gag reflex and laughing.

-When we go out to eat, he can only sit for 5 minutes and then he runs around aimlessly. Can't sit through a meal. He could get lost if we don't watch him.

-When I ask him a question, he would totally avoid/tune me out and continue his internal self talk. I have to repeat the question 10 times to get an answer.

Things he can do:

-Communicate in short functional scripts. No novel speech yet.

-Receptive understanding still developing

-Can make eye contact with familiar people.

-Affectionate. Gives hugs and kisses.

-Plays with all toys functionally. No lining up.

-Responds to name 70% of the time.

-Can self feed.

-Good problem solving skills.

-Recognizes all alphabets, shapes, colours. Can count to 50.

Should I be worried? Do such kids mentally mature overtime?

Hey everyone. My child is 3 years old. He can communicate needs using short functional scripts.

His receptive language is limited to words short phrases and he doesnt understand sentences yet.

He has a vocabulary of nouns and verbs and that he recognises in sentences but he does not really underatand what the sentence actually means and tunes out when someone speaks to him in sentences.

Like he would understand "daddy" "come" "shop" but not when I say "Daddy is coming in 5 minutes then we'll go to the shop"

He can follow handful of directions which have been modelled to him, he can't follow new ones.

He has lots of echolalia aswell with lots of gibberish.

Anyone experienced this? Does it improve?

Hey everyone. My LO has ASD, ARFID.

He won't self feed. He has really bad feeding aversion. He has issues with food textures. He is pretty much disgusted by all safe foods even his safe foods. I have to hand feed him or he won't eat at all if I don't.

I have tried cutting foods into small pieces for him to pick up and feed himself. He will pick it up and get disgusted as soon as food touches his fingers and throw it away.

Due to his, he has a delay with using utensils properly. He scoops food with spoon, takes it mouth and rotates the spoon as soon as it reaches mouth as a result the food falls. (idk why maybe to test the texture or coordination issue ?) OT is trying to help with this but the feeding aversion is so bad he does not want to feed himself.

anyone has dealt with this? Any advice?