Now looking back where do i start,everyone has a diffrent story.
He was never interested in people or what was going on around him,he had some eye contact but a lack of it which confused us when we were told about autism.
He also never pointed to show interest in things,if you notice you always see other children pointing and he wasn't doing that.He was into rough and tumble games it would get him very excited, that was a way to get him to interect with us.
Dillon got very over excited about the tv like money adverts and teletubbies had him running around and jumping up and down out of control you could not stop him because he could not understand.
Dillon liked looking at toy car wheels lieing down on the floor just so focased on them,he would stare at lines on the floor,he would rub his head on the floor and windows and rocked his head side to side for no reason.
Dillon showed no interest in pretend play or creative play, but had good nollage of numbers colours and the alphabet by 18 months yet he had no speech, he was fab at puzzles for that age as well.
He would point on request if you asked were something was in his favourate first word book, that was the only pointing he could do, he would not point to real life objects.
Dillon had no interest in imaginary play didn't build with bricks and push toys around out side or ride on things like the other children.
He also would not awnser to his name when called or if you asked him to do something simple he would not understand.
He would also run off even into the road, he had no sense of danger.
Dillon dose have his funny food moments but we where told he eats quite well,but he would not cut with knife and folk he would use a spoon instead,some children with autism don't eat very well atall.
Dillon is quite a good sleeper and he gose to bed by himself but he dose occasionaly wake up and become restless but he gose back to sleep eventially.
When we take dillon shopping he dos'nt like it,it's sensory overload for him it's to many faces and voices and lights and colours it gets him wound up he starts jumping up and dowm and flapping his hands and people just stare at him, but we have to keep taking him because he has to get used to it,we stick to a routine now, so he nows what to expect.
Sorry ive gone on a bit but the signs the hv is looking for is as soon as they walk in to the room,your child should show interest in her have good eye contact.She would be looking to see if he interacts with her she might show him a book and ask him to point to something,she might ask him to brush dolls hair or some sort of imaginary play game like making tea with tea pot also stacking bricks,puzzles,threading toy's etc
She will ask how many words he say's and what his understanding is like.Autism dos'nt show it's self straight away it's quite hard to diagnose because all autistic people have there own traights but the symptoms are.....
Lack of speech or no speech{communication difficulties]
No imaganary play or lack of it.
No interest in creative play.
No eye contact or lack of it.
Sensory problems.
Obsession in stacking and lineing up toy's or objects.
Obsession with some subjects like thomas tank engine or trains etc.
Dislikes change of routine.
Hand flapping jumping up and dowm [known as stimming].
Eats only certain foods,dos'nt like brand changes some how they now!!.
I think that's about it ive proberly mist something out you should also look at the national autistc society website as well their's loads of imformation on there.
Hope all is ok, it most likely nothing to worry about.
Cindyx
