One thing I wanted to point out... the diagnosis doesn't change from Autism/PDD-NOS to Asperger's just because the child begins speaking. I would be willing to be your child probably still has a large pragmatic speech delay, like nearly all children with Autism/PDD-NOS who do fine with functional speech. A pragmatic speech delay is still a serious issue, and causes my son no end of trouble with school and friends. (I've been on the hunt for an SLP for him for ages now!)
oh, he only got the PDD-NOS diagnosis couple months ago and has been speaking really well the last year and half. I even had him evaluated by private Speech Therapist and she didn't find any issues other than noted his vocab and way of speaking is way beyond his years. The Psych eval was done by an intern (granted a really nice one who did put a lot of effort into things) so I have my reservations and even she agreed we need to go on further to developmental specialist to find out where exactly on the spectrum he is as this lady couldn't diagnose anything beyond PDD-NOS (and that was mainly for school purposes). Anything I've ever read about Asperger's ... it's 90% my older son ... anything I've read about PDD-NOS matches maybe 50% but probably not even that)
... now, as for the younger one, PDD-NOS wouldn't surprise me at all!
Looks like we will have to reschedule the appointment. After all the waiting, DS2 has the flu now! Even if he didn't have anymore fever tomorrow, he's still super irritable and out of it so the appointment would probably turn into a total disaster tomorrow. So I'm waiting for them to call me back to get a new appointment
