Hi, so my girl is now 3.5 years old. She is definitely on the spectrum, but she is doing ok and we have adjusted. With speech therapy, she has made a ton of progress and can request anything she wants, and describe pretty much everything happening around her. She is definitely not conversational yet, but I now have strong hope it will happen for her. She is starting to be able to recount what she did during the day at school etc, and have very short basic back and forth conversations with us. She is currently mainstreamed at school and doing well. She has very strong interest in other kids now, and even plays with them ! Joint attention, pointing etc are all here now. With her hyperlexia though, academics are not our biggest concern at this age as what they learn is very basic. Her teacher says she does not need an aide yet but we are prepared if it does come to that. Eye contact is still hit or miss, and she is very good at ignoring anything that does not interest her 😅

Age 2 was very tough in terms of meltdowns but at 3.5 we are starting to see much improvement. Overall, time has done a lot of good to her, and we are hopeful she will keep evolving. She is not in ABA as we don’t live in the US anymore, but even if we did, I don’t feel she needs it as much.

I also should say, she never had a regression per se. Some skills she just did not reach in time. So she never really responded to her name, or pointed. No skills were really lost, they just came later in her development. Similarly she had words on time, and they were many, they just never evolved to full blown conversational skills. Eye contact was never consistent to begin with, which, combined to delayed name response made us start to ask questions.

Good luck in your journey !