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Hello, I am totally new at all this, my son is 4 and right now the

official diagnosis is " significantly developementally delayed " They

say it's cause he's too young for an official diagnosis of

aspergers. I got my son when he was 9 months old, he was my foster

son. He was only 12 lbs., undernourished, couldn't hold his head

up, sit up, keep his tongue in his mouth, etc. He projectile

vomited everything he ate, and had never bonded with anyone. I

immediately started the bonding process with him, and he finally

began to eat and keep formula down, gain weight, and smile and sit

up etc. He has made leaps and bounds from when I got him. But now,

he has no attention span, he talks nonstop from am till he falls

asleep, litterally the moment his eyes open he starts talking and

doesn't stop unless he's sleeping. He has only been potty trained

since October of 05, he over stuffs his mouth with food, tongue

thrusts instead of chewing, doesn't understand that there is food on

his fork sometimes and flings it everywhere, only in the last few

months is he able to drink out of a cup without spilling much, he

becomes obsessed with new toys or groups of action figures, when he

lost or broke his scooby doo action figures he replaced them with

mcdonalds " robots " toys, and called them by the scooby name, if he

loses a toy he's obsessed with he will not sleep, or do anything

until, we locate the toy or find a replacement. He recognises signs

like Home Depot, Walmart, k-mart, jcpenney,mcdonalds, etc...a mile

off...He has a very wobbley gate, falls and trips constantly,

doesn't have a dominant hand. Okay now here's my question for all

the mother's who's children are school aged, does it get better?

Will he be able to eat normally? Go to mainstreem classrooms like

Kindergarten, write, read, etc? Are their things at home that I can

be doing to help along his progress? He is in ot, pt, speech, and

special ed at preschool, but I think that maybe more can be done.

I'm becoming physically and mentally wore out. I know this is a long

posting and I appologise, but I don't know who else to ask all

this...thanks so much, God bless,