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Hi, everyone... I keep reading everywhere about how there's a window of opportunity kinda, between ages of 2 and 5 where development is going to occur most quickly and easilly (with therapy, treatment, etc). This really concerns me, because my girlfriends' son is about 5 and a half and operates at about a 1 year old level (not my own judgement on it... I guess that's the conclusion his teacher at school came to, and it sounds about right to me). Anyhow, whatever treatment he is getting is being left up to whatever program they have in the public school district he's in, and his teacher who does her 7 or 8 hours monday through friday and then doesn't have to look at these kids or worry about them beyond that. I don't know enough about this teacher to know if she actually gives a **** or not, but her situation isn't like mine... whatever they're doing (or not doing) now is going to still be affecting me 30 years from now, ya know... Anyways, I don't know enough about this whole thing yet to even be able to question it. I just get a gut feeling that this early years window of opportunity thing is being missed out on and have no idea what to do about it, what to suggest, etc. I'd like to know at least enough about autism to be able to research treatment options on my own and anything else I can do to help this poor kid have a normal life someday. So, my two questions are... are we pretty much out of luck if no major progress has been acheived by now, and where would be a good starting place for someone in my shoes who needs to be more informed than I am? Thank you! :-)
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although it is good to start early intervention as early as possible, I do not believe that there is a critical 'window' and if you miss it then you are out of luck. My son was diagnosed at 3 and non verbal, I had heard that if he wasn't talking by 5, he wouldn't ever, and that is just not the case. He is nine now and does talk! I don't know that I would classify him a fluent conversationalist, but he has made wonderful progress and most has been in the last couple years. Its hard to say how your public school program is, because it seems to very greatly across the country. The parent does have rights when it comes to setting goals for them to work on in public school. There is a lot of information on the web regarding IEP, FAPE and Wrights law, that will help understanding those rights and how to use them for your childs benefit and progress. When our son was first diagnosed, we started with Speech therapy and taught him sign language using signing time videos (I can't really take credit for the teaching him as I bought the video and he picked it up watching them and learned it faster than me) the signing helped to bridge his communication until we could get the speech. Even now if I have a hard time understanding certain words of his, I ask him to spell it and he will finger spell the word) There are lots of therapy programs you can look into, ABA, RDI, Floortime are a few, but I think the key is that one treatment does not fit all and you just need to find something that will connect with your particular child. I hope that helps some. 
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I asked for early intervention until I was blue in the face. The only intervention my ASD child got was from me and she is doing great! So even though it is best to have it, not having it doesn't mean your child can't do just fine as they get older. Mine wasn't officially dx'd until she was 10 yrs old.
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Thank yall for the replies.. will keep the info in mind
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