Gabe doesn't have very good eye contact. He says hello and goodbye to me without even looking at me but the past week or so his eye contact has improved. He actually stares into my eyes sometimes. I love looking at those big blue eyes. There is even an added sparkle that I just haven't seen for some time!! I feel like Gabe is coming out of his little world and really for once joining ours. Even my family has noticed the difference. It's exciting.
We called Hershey medical center yesterday to set up an evaluation with the child psych. there. I am so excited to have some solid evals done on Gabe. The school district evals way back in November were a joke. There were huge red flags for autism then and not one person opened their mouth about those concerns. It didn't matter that Gabe didn't talk to them, ignored most of their requests, didn't copy anything they did, and pretty much looked like classic autism at that point! Well, since finding a great neurologist we have finally got some answers. Whew...now we can go to Hershey and find out just where Gabe is as far as autism is concerned. I just feel like it is high functioning or even pdd-nos. Regardless of their findings I just want Gabe to have every oppurtunity as a NT kid has. We are so on our way to that.
Looks like we are going to finally get some OT as well. We have our name on the waiting list at the local rehab hospital. Hope we get a call soon! We have our name in there as well for speech. And I am thinking about adding some ABA for Gabe. We are seeing some behavior issues as he gets older as well as he has an extreemly hard time reading body language and facial expressions unless they are happy or crying. He doesn't understand limits as far as personal space goes and can't understand when people are angry and want him to stop. Hopefully OT or ABA can help with some of that.
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