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Archive for December 6th, 2009

I saw on Tv that one sign of this is for a child to put his toys in a neatly straight line? But my son is very affectionate and looks at us when we talk to him and him talking to us... So my question is... Could this be an early sign or him just being a neat freak... He also is the only boy I know who freaks out when his hands or face is dirty.

Several people have noticed my 19 month old has many compulsive habits. He organizes his toys sometimes by color, but he doesn't like to really play with toys. He prefers anything else but them, also he has to always have the doors or cabinets shut. He notices if things are not how they are suppose to be. He throws a fit if he cannot organize things or if it doesn't work the way he wants it too. For example, if he is putting together legos and they are not going together or if they fall over, he yells, takes them apart, and throws them because he is so frustrated. Also he is a constant talker, but does not have many actually words. Is this a sign of any autism or anything to be concerned about?

My daughter will be 2 at the end of March. She is delayed in speech, saying only 4 words consistently. She says these four words, Mommy, Daddy, Baby and Uh Oh very clearly, but she doesn't say very much beyond that. Very rarely, we'll hear an Up, Izzy(her brother), Hey, or Whoa. By 2, she should be saying 50 words.
When we speak to her, we have to repeat ourselves multiple times before she'll even acknowledge us, and she doesn't respond to her name very often, normally if we raise our tone of voice and call her by her full name.
She does not show a lot of interest in most of her toys. She has an obsession with her "babies" and stroller, her guitar, a stuffed bear she received the day she was born and a Kitty Book. We cannot get her interested in anything else. It also takes multiple views of a movie before we can get her to sit for even 10 minutes.
She will not focus on anything unless she wants to, she constantly smacks her head off objects, such as the computer desk, wall and floor, and recently has taken to spinning in circles, making herself dizzy, falling and then repeating this cycle for upwards of 15 minutes.
She only shows interest in certain foods..spaghetti, hot dogs, chili and chicken noodle soup. These are the only meals we can ever get her to finish, otherwise, she either won't touch her food, or will take only a few bites and refuse the rest.
She throws multiple tantrums during the day and whines, screams and throws a fit when she wants something, rather than try to communicate in a less agressive way for something she wants.
My daughter has also recently been diagnosed with a slight gross motor delay.
She is on the wait list now for physiotherapy and speech therapy, but I wonder if it might be something more than just delays.
Do these "symptoms" sound like they could be autism? How do I get her tested and what is involved in the testing?

My son is 16 months old. He just started walking at 14 months and now he seems like he wants something in his hands all the time. He picks up stuff from the floor or a sock from his foot and carries it around all day--shaking it.
He doesn't talk yet, but he grunts, makes noises and babbles to the dogs. He can say "Bye Bye" and "Hey" and "Uh Gee" (don't know what that means), but he says them maybe twice a day. He can whisper Bye Bye if you whisper it. But, mostly he just kinda makes noises and babbles on occasion. He follows me from room-to-room, but sometimes he just plays where he is. He is very affectionate and loves to play peek-a-boo and chase. If he wants something to eat, he will go to the counter and look over it--he doesn't point or talk, yet. He HAS pointed, but only a few times. He dances to music, turns to noises and sounds, but not to his name. He acts like he doesn't know his name. His name is Noah. He hears NO! a lot, so I am wondering if he thinks I"m saying "NO" instead of "Noah."
He doesn't fit the description for autism, except: He carries things around shaking them, he shakes his hands when excited or bored, and he doesn't turn to his name. Other than those things, he's typical. I'm worrying myself to death about his "autistic tendencies".
Anyone else in my shoes?