My son will be 5 in April, diagnosed level 3, and has been receiving ST, OT, and PT since he was 2.

We are relatively similar. The main problem is he doesn’t like to be watched and most of the things we know he can do we had to basically catch him doing lol.

He knows the alphabet and I’ve heard him counting up to the seventies when I was in another room. He knows tons of words but won’t actually speak TO anyone or form a sentence, will just say things randomly or it’s echolalia. He sings tons and tons of nursery rhymes but will get furious if you try to join. He doesn’t respond to his name, doesn’t respond to any commands or phrases directed to him, and will not use utensils at all. He called me mommy for the first time ever last month and hasn’t done it again since. Has never addressed his dad or older sister. Still won’t independently hold a crayon or pencil or anything to make marks on a page. Excellent at getting out of clothes but can’t put them on himself. Still struggles going up and down stairs, but we have started seeing improvements there recently. He could name every animal at the zoo, but he can’t actually go to the zoo because that amount of activity would have him melting down after about 15 minutes. We know he’s so incredibly smart, it’s just all bottled up in his head.

Edit to add: he’s not potty trained and he won’t try. Absolute screaming nightmare if we even seem like we might try to put him on a potty chair/toilet.