When my son turned 2 yrs old he still was not communicating , my mom met a women whom had a son with autism she began describing his actions to my mom and the more and more she thought about what the women was saying it began to sound like my son. My mom came home from work that day we began talking about the things that my son would do such as watching a wheel on his tricycle go round and round let alone anything that would spin. At the age of 3 yrs old we went to his pediatrician at the time and asked the pediatrician what he thought , his reply was take him to see a neurologist so we did.When we heard the word Autism come out of the neurologist's mouth our response was where to we go from here as far as school also other services that are out there for him.
Through out the years we were told "If he isn't talking by time he turns 8yrs old he may never talk" He is 10 yrs old now and communicating now it may not be perfect it is understandable. With all the hard work of the school that he attends and his speech therapist and of course at home and family support. My son has come along way from no where in not being able to communicate with others. Also his behavioral consultant team they are wonderful and have also brought him and taught both him and my family a lot of ways to work around the behavior.
Through my son he has inspired me to thrive to want to go back to college and become a Behavioral Analysts doing this will allow my not only to work with the children also the parents.
Burlington, NJ