possible ASD?
my 2yo has an eval next month and i’m nervous.
he is significantly delayed in his expressive (3rd percentile) and total language (2nd percentile), and delayed in his receptive language (10th percentile). he was diagnosed with developmental language disorder in february.
i see a lot of things that are characteristic of ASD, but also just normal toddler behavior. i.e. inconsistent eye contact/response to his name, regression in terms of knowing/making animal sounds but now just shaking his head or calling our dog by his name but now just calling him “dog”, he used to eat literally anything you put in front of him and now he’s very selective, he doesn’t share; everything is “mine”, prefers parallel play, toe walking, finger flicking, spinning or asking to be spun, rubs random things such as rocks and grass on his face, lines/stacks any and everything, hits himself in the head, it takes him no less than an hour every night to actually settle to go to sleep, if we’re trying to transition to a different activity there’s a 99% chance of a meltdown unless it’s something he wants to do, he has a very limited sense of danger, he plays with his poop if he’s left in his crib with a poopy diaper for more than 5 mins, he excessively throws every single thing that he picks up, he has an intense interest in chickens, ducks, dinosaurs and rhinos, only wants to watch 1-2 tv shows and will absolutely lose it if you change it. and these are just to name a few.
i just want to mentally prepare myself for the eval and what it entails, and what may be his diagnosis.