Is this ADHD or what?

[JSSDR]

Hello, my boy 26 is m.o.. He is very active, he climbs, he runs, he never stops, he is very loud...

He started to speak like this a month ago, after 3 month of everyday exercises with speech therapist. He now speaks 100 words, he speaks basic things, something like this - Dad sits-if he want that his dad to sit, or -dad open door (that his dad opens the door). He doesnt know yet colors, words like- ugly, pretty, small, big etc, to count (he recognizes numbers, all of them are 5 and 6). He also speaks badly, for example, tiger- he would say - rige, and he has a lot of his own language. He can and like to sing children songs.

He plays with toys, he feeds them, kisses them, talks to them- sit, jump, sleep. He runs with his car and says bip,bip, he "cooks" with food -toys, he gives me his toys to play with them.

He now imitates everything and points with finger (he did do that much either just month ago).

He knows now to brush his teeth, wash hands, he kiss me all the time, gives me book to show him pictures, to dress up him...he always did have eye contact.

His fine motor skills are great. He knows to change channels on TV, to fill up his glass, to eat alone, to open boxes, moves furniture around the house to grab things... But all that things also came recently. Like he was waken from some bad dream.

When he didn't know to say open-close, turn on-off, he would say- door, for every thing that is X shaped- he says- scissor, for kind of fruit that he doesn't know its name, he now says- fruit, so I think his logic is OK.

I don't understand how did he start to do so many things,  that he should almost a 6-10-12 months ago in that short time (3 months of speech therapy), is he now OK 26. m.o. boy or he is going again to be late? What happened to him? What can be his diagnose?

Sorry for my English, I hope you will understand my questions.

Best Regards,

R.

[specialmom]

Hi.  My son has sensory integration disorder which affects his nervous system.  We do occupational therapy for this.  It basically means that the part of his brain that sends messages is messed up.  For some kids, it can mean too much information is flooding in so they can't focas.  For other kids (and sometimes the same kids as a child can be a mixture of the two--- like my son) they don't get signals strongly at all.  They need extra input into the brain.  For example, my son crashes into things.  His brain likes the way this gives it a strong signal, so it tells him to do it.  

I would be really excited about your son's recent growth!!  That is great.  I'm not sure what is causing either except if this speech therapy is unlocking some things going on for him.  If he had problems with receptive language, for example--- (this is the part of speech in which allows a child to understand what is going on) and the speech therapist is addressing it, this could help with his progression and learning very much.  

It is great the way he plays as that is how a child should play.  An autistic child anywhere on the spectrum has trouble playing usually especially with pretend play.  Also that he has eye contact is great.

Add usually involves impulsiveness and many other things but probably shouldn't be diagnosed until around age 6 as kids show so much impulsiveness until at least that age in general.  I would look up ADD and learn about it.  Also look up sensory integration/processing disorder.  My son is doing very well and early intervention is great.  Good job getting the speech therapy going and look how far he has come!  i wish you all the best luck and just ask if you have any questions about sensory.  

[JSSDR]

Tnx, for response, you are great!

Here in my country things are done totally differently according to these problems, and because that, reading USA sites doesn't always help, plus I cant find so many information on my language. SID here isn't recognized as diagnose, only as a part of some disorder.

Can you please write something about your boy, why he has SID and not PDD, what is different, I really don't understand that part.

My boy definitely has sensory issues, but I think they are mild. He gets frustrated or fascinated and totally gets out of control when he is at some new place, he needs to grab, see, touch everything, he starts running like crazy, he doesn't pay attention at humans at all then, he starts to scream if we dont allow him to run. It was even worse, like I said few months ago, but now he wants to give hand at new places and even recently to point to something if he wants to see that. After few times going to some new place, he calms down and starts to pay attention to people there. So, new places, especially if they full with impulses (colors, music, lot of stuffs, people) still get him out of control.

[zamorana]

hey, well ur story is somehoe similar to my experience with my son. My son is now almost 26 months. when he was younger like I remember when he was like 18 months he didn't have good eye contact, didin't say words, always seemed in his own world never brought things to me, never really seemed to care if i was present or not, used to spin wheels (still does that but not for so long) didn't point so basically he was showing many red flags. I got him checked and the specialist told me that he is still too young to get a final diagnosis and advised me to start speech therapy.

now he is really improving, still like to play alone sometimes but i can feel that he is more aware of us his parents. And his eye contact has improved big time plus now he says arounf 50 words and few 2 words sentences like open door, bye mami....
he always played with toys properly but prefered spinning wheels. he does pretend play, brings thing over to me, and understand simple instruction such us give the phone to Ali(his dad). At daycare they told me that i shoudn't worry about autism and that it's maybe some sort of delay.

Plus when he was younger we didn't interact much with him, he was put infront of the TV for along time, and at home we speak 2 languages...

to basically what i m trying to say is that maybe sometime it's some sort of delay that is making the child showing signs of autism. and what really comforts me is the eye contact. when a child has a good eye contact (not for only 3 or 2 secs) the mother can feel it when a child is with her or in his own world.that's very important

sometimes when u stop giving kids milk and diary product they improve graetly not sure about that though.