Intro

I am keeping this blog in an attempt to see what works & what doesn't. First a little background:
My son Victor is almost 23 months. He does not talk, rarely waives or claps (but has done it sporadically), does not point to show me something but will point when prompted or on his own at various things, and does not always turn around to the call of his name. His receptive language is spotty - sometimes he understands commands, sometimes no. He flaps his arms (a stim) when he is excited. He does make great eye contact, has joint attention, laughs, smiles, loves to be hugged & tickled, plays with his toys, and loves books. At 15 months I called EI and he started Speech therapy (ST) at 16 months. At 19 months Occupational (OT) and SpecialEd was added. We also started to send him to an integrated daycare half day every day this summer. He gets each therapist twice a week but more often then not one of them is canceling at least one session that week. I have seen improvements in his behavior with other people but not so much with his communication. At 22 months we started Nordic Naturals Children's DHA Cod Liver Oil (CLO). We gave it to him at different times of the day but his sleeping had become difficult and his stims more violent and we did not notice any improvement in speech. We stopped the CLO last week.

OK now on to the present. On September 20th we decided to go GF. We will see how this goes for awhile before deciding to introduce CF.

Victor is having more tantrums lately and he never had them before and I am wondering if this is due to the gluten withdrawal. I heard this could happen. For instance 2 days ago he started to cry when his DVD ended and then when I was holding him he bit me! Now this could also be because his teeth were hurting but I'm not sure. Today when we pulled into the driveway of the house after picking him up from daycare, he smiled as usual but then when I went to get him out he started to turn around to stay in the car. He picked up a DVD case that was on the floor and was playing with it, when I took it & put it back in the car he started to cry hysterically so I gave it him to play with & closed the car door. He cried and refused to walk into the house even though he had the DVD case so I picked him up & brought him inside where he continued to cry until I took him to his bed and gave him his pacifier.

On the plus side yesterday for the first time ever he took my hand and was leading me somewhere. He was leading me to the door of my brother's apartment because I think he wanted to go.