worried about my son

[kelti]

He'll be 20 months old in a few days and his only words are Mama and Dada (he just says these, it's not to get our attention) and "iss" for Fish. He understands what we say, but he won't repeat words. He also has these behaviors I found on another site:

#The child cannot explain what he/she wants.
# The child throws intense or violent tantrums.
# The child has odd movement patterns.
# The child seems to hear sometimes, but not others.
# The child doesn’t point or wave bye-bye.
#The child is hyperactive, uncooperative, or oppositional
#The child seems to prefer to play alone. (He's in a play group with other kids - won't play with them)
# The child seems to tune people out.
# The child is not interested in other children.
# The child walks on his/her toes. (He sometimes does this)
#Child spends a lot of time lining things up or putting things in a certain order.

He also bangs things against his forehead or bangs his head on furniture or on the floor. He can pick up heavy things that I assume would be hard for other kids. He screams and squeals - happy or mad.

He was late sitting, crawling and walked at 15 months, but his doctor wasn't concerned. So I've tried to tell myself he'll be late in talking, too. But now I just feel something is wrong. Does this sound like normal toddler behavior? Or should I be concerned? Thanks.

[AutMom]

I'd be concerned.

Welcome to the group

[clgonzal]

kelti

Most of the behavior you just mentioned are accurate with 21/2 y/o son, fortunately he does not have any interest or violent tantrums, but it is the same pattern.

We have it evaluated when he was 23 month old, because he was not playing with other Childs, he mostly was playing with adults and little people were almost invisible to him, unless they tried to approach him, he will completely ignore them.

He was not paying attention, unless he was interest in the subject and no matter if you were near or far your voice used to make no different, like you were not there.

He is also very strong almost impossible to believe, he can lift things heavier than other kids.

The diagnosed was PDD-NOS or mild autism spectrum that was they said.

Know he is in therapy and believe has make all different in the world for him, he now pay attention and listen his environment, we can now been in another room and if we call he will come to us, and even acknowledge and follow instructions.

I would say that early intervention is better, since their brain still forming and their behavior still forming.

Please you should have him evaluate, just in case.

best regards
claudio

[kelti]

Thanks. We do have an appointment with my son's doctor Wednesday. We'll get her opinion and go from there.

[clgonzal]

We learned in the hard way that not all pediatrician are familiar with Development Disorders, or they don't have enough time to concentrate in one child case. We had a pediatrician that was stupendous about treating a child for normal problems but when it comes to Development Disorders she does not even have a clue of what to do.

We were basically the ones looking for information and finally we realize she was not helping us with it.

The appropriate path is to have a pediatrician neurologist evaluate him, and also look for a pediatrician who at least has come across others Childs with Development Disorders since there many blood test they have to do to determine if the problem does not comes from a different source like, hormonal problems, problems processing certain foods or deficiencies in assimilating certain important nutrients.

My 2 cents is for you to become more and more expert in the subject as you can be, to know about treatment options, test that need to be perform, specialist that have to see him, and you'll see results.