Hello! This is my first post at this forum. Good to be here!
My 3.5-year-old son was just diagnosed with PDD-NOS. He's clearly high-functioning - he's an affectionate, social child - but he needs extra help with joint attention, open-ended play, spoken language (he "keeps his own counsel" and doesn't say what's on his mind), and emotional control. He may also need OT to help with noise sensitivities and some minor physical issues, like toilet training, which just eludes him.
Meanwhile, at three, he reads better than any five-year-old I've ever known! I won't go into much detail in this post, but he shows many signs of giftedness. The evaluator agreed, and she put him through WPPSI-III and K-SEALS to formalize it. Yep, smart cookie.
He's in an excellent private preschool that goes right through summer, but our town's public schools can't even give him a full evaluation until the fall (let alone getting him services). Meanwhile, I'd like to start looking for therapists, or ASD/gifted specialists, or a developmental pediatrician right away. I want to get started helping my son!
We live slightly north and west of Boston, Mass. Can anyone here recommend professionals that can work with us?
