17 month old spins everything
Hi, I’m worried about my little boy who’s 17 months old. He’s spins everything and anything. In all fairness this is less than he was doing, and some days doesn’t do it at all or very little whereas other days he does it a lot. Everything points towards autism, when you look into this. There are no other ‘red flags’ so to speak. The only thing he sort of lacks in is speech, he doesn’t say too much at all but when I spoke to the HV she said although it’s not a lot and lower end of acceptable parameters, he’s not below the threshold as he babbles, copies some familiar words at times and has about 5 words, although doesn’t say them every day. Just said to monitor it for the time being. We also completed the ASQ questionnaire which was all fine. I did speak to her about the spinning, and she told me about the rotation schema. Which I’ve looked into and it does make sense but I just can’t help but worry because if he wants to spin something, he finds anything he can get his hands on. He doesn’t actually spin himself though, just objects/toys.
When I’ve searched on here, there are multiple threads about this, especially boys!
Is there anyone else’s with the same worries? Any reassurance, or does anyone think that I need to speak to the HV again?
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How is his eye contact, social interaction, initiation? Does he flap arms/hands? Also, not sure where you live but I'm assuming you should be able to self refer for a speech assessment. I do speech therapy and referred my 15mo at the time. He has lots of words fiiinally now at 18mo, but lots to work on with clarity etc and still communicates with non words too.
My boy is 18m he likes to line up toys before he used to build things but now he stopped building and whatever i try to build he takes them into pieces and line them up same with everything else. Plus he flapping his hands doing circles around and doing some weird movements with his fingers also he have food issues he looks at foods and if he doesn’t like the look or the texture of the food he doesn’t eat it he cries and runs away. He doesn’t like loud voices and blue and red flashing lights either. So for me it’s shows autism but his speech is good he repeat words he tries to babble around so it’s confusing because he does almost all things which an autistic child would do but on other hand his speaking is fine and he likes kids company and very social child. It’s hard to tell at this age but the best thing to do it’s to keep an eye on it and if it’s gets worse or you notice anything new or different make note of it and mention to your hv.That’s what I’m gonna do on his upcoming check
Doesn't hurt get on list for assessment if you have any concerns or see flags. Often wait times are long. And early intervention is best!
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