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Hello, my 2 year old son has been assessed for autism and adhd waiting for diagnosis, it’s gonna be a long road ahead as HV said waiting list to be seen is 12-18 months and they don’t diagnose until 5….
He’s non verbal but now and again will say words. SALT have been no help and keep saying to give it a few more months when we do get seen (twice this has happened)
He’s hyperactive and can’t get him to sit still. Just finding it really hard atm, trying to help him with his speech, learn skills and gestures. Any advice please would be appreciated

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I’m in the exact same boat as you so you’re not alone, my son won’t even engage with anything we try to teach him he has a very short attention span. It is tough but we got this x

Is there anything he’s particularly interested in? For example, my son is similar but loves puzzles - so I went to town and got loads of puzzles and the repetition of saying the same words over and over helped him to begin saying words.

It may be useful to know that most autistic kids don’t process language the same way as neurotypical kids. Look into gestalt language processors. My son responds really well to song and learning phrases instead of individual words. He appears to learn scripts, so it’s like learning a foreign language. I’ve been using speech & language techniques since he was 14 months as we still haven’t been seen (he’s 26 months old now). I’d say it’s only in the last 2 months we’ve seen real progress - persevere because they are taking everything in!

I’ve been using some makaton signs with my little one too, mostly around his needs: food, water etc. This seems to be helping him communicate too!

Don't have advise, but sorry the support professionally hasn't be great for you at all xx

I’m finding that too, everything I try just ends in a tantrum or he’s pushing it away x

he’s obsessed with cars, he’s recently started saying car now and again. We got him car garages and stuff for Xmas but he’s not interested in them just likes to push them back and forth.
We got him puzzles too he struggles a bit with them and gets frustrated pushing them away but keep trying

I shall have a look into the language processors thank you for your feed back

Thank you xx

It’s so tough sometimes, it’s rubbish that you aren’t getting the support you need. You could use the cars to teach different adjectives: colours, fast, slow, noises the cars make, different vehicles etc.

Sometimes it just takes a while for it to click. My wee one has just had another burst of language, it’s great that I can see he knows his colours but he still can’t tell me if he’s hungry, thirsty or hurt.

I hope you get the help you need! Sending hugs xxx

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