So excited to see this!! I feel like I am so lost. DS is 27 months, and is sensory seeking. Everything & everyone must be touched. His activity level is through the roof, and expressive language is virtually non -existent except for a few words. He seems to be really smart, and understands most of what is said to him.
We started working with EI almost a year ago due to lack of language. Presently, DS is not receiving speech services because the only time the ST could see him was during nap time. After several attempts that ended in screaming and crying I told the coordinator that we'd have to try another time - that was over a month ago. We also have a special instructor that comes out. She has just started and I'm not 100% what she does. We had an OT evaluate him in May, and was told he did not have SPD. However she did not do much of an eval, and both the coordinator and the special instructor has said he seems to have it. We are waiting for another eval. Meanwhile, at his 2 year appt, the Ped referred him for an autism eval which is on a 4 month waiting list. The specialist ped reffered him for another OT eval through another agency - no EI. This place has a 3 month waiting list.
I feel like we are just hanging out in limbo on waiting lists. In the mean time our activities are somewhat limited. LLL has been put on hold since being in a big space ready to be explored overwhelms him and I spend the entire meeting fishing him out of places he shouldn't be in. We do not have any parks less than 30 min away, nor do we have a YMCA. I'm trying to find more things for him to do in the house but all he wants to do is run and play.
We started working with EI almost a year ago due to lack of language. Presently, DS is not receiving speech services because the only time the ST could see him was during nap time. After several attempts that ended in screaming and crying I told the coordinator that we'd have to try another time - that was over a month ago. We also have a special instructor that comes out. She has just started and I'm not 100% what she does. We had an OT evaluate him in May, and was told he did not have SPD. However she did not do much of an eval, and both the coordinator and the special instructor has said he seems to have it. We are waiting for another eval. Meanwhile, at his 2 year appt, the Ped referred him for an autism eval which is on a 4 month waiting list. The specialist ped reffered him for another OT eval through another agency - no EI. This place has a 3 month waiting list.
I feel like we are just hanging out in limbo on waiting lists. In the mean time our activities are somewhat limited. LLL has been put on hold since being in a big space ready to be explored overwhelms him and I spend the entire meeting fishing him out of places he shouldn't be in. We do not have any parks less than 30 min away, nor do we have a YMCA. I'm trying to find more things for him to do in the house but all he wants to do is run and play.
Kalynn kept saying "C'mon! Let's go play!" I had to explain to her that the girl had her feelings hurt because she said something mean to her and that she didn't want to play right then. She didn't realize that she had hurt her feelings. It seems like I have to explain to her that kids are hurt, or they don't want to play, etc.
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and sending some peace your way. I wish there was more I could do.
when I wash her costume she runs to check on it every chance she can. She looks really nervous until it comes back. The only thing she can talk about seems to be Silvermist. Shes now even sleeping in it. I gotta make some boundries somewhere on this soon. Usually I try to ride out her obsessions,but this is getting to be too much. Her sister would like to do something else also- well that is when shes not stimming and draping herself over a chair 
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