Last week my 5 yo son diagnosed as moderate autism by child psychologist after doing assessment .

We started bringing him to child psychologist when he was 2 yo.

Symptoms/signs at the time.
No eye contact
No response to name
Afraid of hairy toys/grass/sands/hair cut
Speech delay

We spent 1 year to overcome his sensory issues, and proceed to help him with his other development.

The worst is training his concentration, sitting down for table task, but we managed to train him and now he can sit down and concentrate in colouring, puzzles etc

Now he has response to our name calling, good eye contacts, able to talk to us but in 1/2/3 words only. His main issue is communication /connection to others.
He's now in a small group tadika which i'm thankful his teachers love him and tried to help him .

We have 1.5 years more to help him, at least get into normal school. But we're prepared if he needs to go special school. He's now on extensive occupational therapy and speech therapy.

My advice to parents, stop giving kids iPads/phones . It's really bad for the kids.

And, don't listen to older people saying it's normal la for speech delay. If you sense something wrong, just consult professional. Always start treatment early . I cannot imagine if 3 years ago we just ignore and never help him. It will be too late.

Btw if there's any WhatsApp sharing group , do inform me .

No response to name, no eye contact, repetitive actions, rocking body front and back, love spinning wheels, and sensory issues.

These are what we saw in my 2 year old 3 years ago. Now he doesn't have all these issues any more after lots of therapy

Every occupational therapy session around rm100. But OT is just a guideline for us. Parents need to do the therapy too at home.

My son's case during his Sensory issues. We went everyday to a centre opened by a non qualified therapist, but she quite good in helping kids with sensory issues. And she managed to solve my son's sensory.

After that, now we're going once a week to a proper occupation therapist during weekends.

He loves to take his toy cars to spin the wheels.

And he like to look at fans too. Thats his case la. Doesn't mean love looking at fans = autism

Yes below 1 year old we don't see any problem.
But from 1 to 2, it's were it all started. No response to name, afraid of grass/carpet/hairy stuffs, no eye contact (I would say for my son is minimal eye contact, not totally 0)

Luckily we did early intervention, if not his condition now might be even worst .

An update on my son who is now 6 years old. (standard 1 next year)

His communication improved a lot and now he is able to talk in sentences, play around with friends. but still weak in some understanding but he is improving everyday.

Academic wise, we are surprised he is very good in all subjects especially maths. his teachers are very impressed with his improvement.

We sent him to piano and art class, and surprisingly he do well there.

So to all parents , never give up and please start early intervention. the tiredness and money spent, is worth everything.

it's been awhile updating here.
my Son is already 9 years old and he is just like any other normal kids.

but sometimes he has his OCD on food.

Stopped therapy since March 2020 MCO and that was such a relief financially, and its a blessing in disguise for us to stop his therapy at that time as his development improves overtime.


so from about 2-6 yo, we spent almost 50k (rough estimation) including travelling Kedah to penang every week etc.