need advice

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Hi! My name is Angie and I have a 3 1/2 year old daughter. she has

many delays but we have never been given a proper diagnosis or even

the time of day from her Drs. We just got a new ped. and so far she

has been great. We have an appointment with a neur next Thursday

and would like some advice on how to prepare. Let me explain

a little bit if I can. All our fun started when she was 2 and not

babbling or even trying to talk. She was evaluated and at the 4-6

month and 6-9 month range all around. She was really behind and did

not even make sounds. Her ST had her hearing checked 4 times her

first year of ST. That is where we started and this is where we are

now. She is in the Early Learning program at our school and

receives sppeech 2X a week, OT 1X week. Ashely has global

hypotonia, motor planning problems she bites herself, never drawn

blood, she cannot or feels very little pain, she does not interact

with other children, prefers adults or wants to be by her self, she

is very vocal now and we understand about 60-70% of what she says

but she will not tell you anything about her day not even with

prompting, she can tell you what she wants and does not want, hard

to explain, but clearly not what other children her age are doing,

she has some problems with her legs, we had some xrays done which

showed banding on her bones so they thought she had lead poisoning

but her levels were fine so they say she does not. She is very

uncoordianted and complains about pain in her legs a lot and falls a

lot. She is unresponsive to loud noises, like she cannot hear

them. I could go on and on. What does Autism loook like in girls,

could this be her problem, any advice would be great. Thnaks Angie