Starting Points: Early Identification, II

One more quote to encourage you, to prompt you, to move you to be your kid's quarterback. To advocate for your child. To seek out confirmation of your suspicions that he or she has autism.

...our understanding of these children is growing, and
intensive integrated treatment approaches are helping many
children make extraordinary developmental progress, the
most remarkable of which is their ability to relate to others
with warmth, pleasure, empathy, and growing emotional
flexibility.

The longer such children remain uncommunicative, and the
more parents lose their sense of the child’s earlier
relatedness, the more deeply the children withdraw, and the
more perseverative and idiosyncratic they become.

M.D. Greenspan, Reconsidering the Diagnosis and Treatment of Very Young
Children with Autism Spectrum or Pervasive Development Disorder.

Get going. Your child will only benefit from a lot knowledge as you fast as you can gather it.