The Boy Who Won’t Eat | Diagnosing Autism | Born Naughty? | Origin

meet the kids who won't eat won't sleep won't behave and the parents who take the round we've been slated left right and centre people say that boy needs a good smack even granny thinks mom just needs to get it great she's a little bit lazy well she is lazy mom and dad are desperate for a label like ADHD or autism to explain their child's behavior I think Billy's autistic I suspect maybe ADHD if it's not autism what is it but could tough-love be the solution is this just a naughty boy it can take years for parents to get a definitive answer this is what I'm up against so you know I'm just getting nowhere so family GP doctor dawn Harper and pediatrician dr. Ravi jerem are tackling this controversy head-on fast-tracking the process to see if medical help is needed do you think they're ready for this goodness or if the kids are just out of control two families two kids all hoping for answers first up these passion for pods is Bobby it's a really really pleasant genuine happy young boy we just wanted to be to meal yeah I says never taught me I was in his life if somebody gives me something card don't lie it makes me feel sick my dad had convinced that he is a serious food phobia I'm Sally I'm Craig we've got two children Bobby who was eight camera and candles just turned 13 in his parlor and she had a barrel hey Gert a milky way blue gums and a chocolate brownie you didn't eat the brownie I don't like fungus potatoes mushrooms peppers onions cheese over that vegetables really o0p even there that's it he's never been in me I don't like pizza cauliflower fish peas carrots gammon this is Bobby's bag and normally when he comes in from school that go straight to the cover then he'll get something out of his bag to keep him going until you put in that position seeing you Charlie there eat the chocolate bar or nothing as soon see me a chocolate bar [Music] bobby's extraordinary eating habits are affecting the whole family who are now hungry for answers we're gonna have a look at Bobby who's an eight-year-old boy who lives in Doncaster dad think he's got food phobia this is what me Salian camera leads this is Bobby's everyday fridge it's probably drinks is yoghurt saline six of them after these beans and then two or three before he goes to bed as well you look at that fridge and and do you immediately think how can you let your child live off this incredibly unhealthy diet we've tried health visitors dieticians well this one's in bucket pediatricians this is a three-headed dragon John psychologist so chill headed lion behavioural next we headed snake the safe position think any of them know what his problem is now we've got referred to a child psychologist and she was saying children drive genuine fears are food and it's like being you going into a restaurant and the weights coming up doesn't say here's a nice and eyeball sandwiches squashing the two pieces of bread and the add ball and it's veins of bulge now from the sides of the presence it's really nice eating with there's absolutely no way in this world we would be in a ball sandwich and whereas you we might say normal bowl of pasta the pasta is lovely they're thinking eyeballs and which do you want to try any things yeah what stop even do you think making you eat is this behavior around eating part of a wider behavioral problem I was waiting for him to start lining things up or being quite rigid about things actually because being very picky about particular types of foods the hung be a sign of an autistic spectrum company but he seems to interact very normally Cheers but when he comes to mealtimes whether it's our Bowl sandwich or just chicken and rice things are far from normal I mean we don't feel it physically wrong we know here we just think it's it's all in his head I'm convinced this psychological problem maybe isn't just Bobby it's maybe the whole dynamic around food eating camel and cashews eating it can't do it why can't you do it somewhere you can't do it it's just an anxiety about having that in his mouth he doesn't like the feel for texture maybe as generally as far as it ever gets just boom you could tell her you're upset there's no point in making it any worse is this happening he's not gonna eat because he knows if he doesn't he he's gonna get six chocolate yogurt Stewie's you know to attempt at a mouthful and oh that's okay heavy yogurt so actually there is no incentive we've been slated left right and center how can you let your child live desserts before zaysan is made and i would never do that if you don't give him something he likes you will starve himself and gosh what he thought the issue is this is a growing lad who's good at very unbalanced diet his parents wondered whether he actually had a phobia around food I think phobias perhaps a bit extreme he's not panicking I think he's going to be a difficult one the most important thing is it's making sure that he's actually getting a nutritionally balanced it's been ice on the somebody just go for a car in him sitting there and eat it average please but before investigating Bobby further our doctors have another top to tackle a three-year-old whose terrible twos are becoming very tricky three DS Jessie J when she wants something it can become very very difficult it can be anywhere it can be a hormone it can be out she'll let you lie on the floor kicking screaming praying it's very very much like having a baby but a big baby pediatrician dr. Ravi Jhelum and GP doctor Dylan Harper are helping children like Jessie J by working out whether these badly behaved kids need a medical diagnosis or stricter parenting in my family there's me my wife Marie and my two daughters Jessie J and Lexi Lee at mealtimes I tried to sit down as a family just so Jessie walks her to the table if I try and mix it at the table she can get into a really emotional state just so can you come and sit down please just say yes sir come on she doesn't eat much hang on I was about to say she's pushed off a lot of the Venona she's not too good with sharing she'd prefer to just destroy it that's not being a good girl is it I don't know why she does it feel yeah yeah Jessie J he's nearly three years old yeah she can't speak she's very vocal but it's just noises these no words she usually like does a a wave noise the first thing you gotta do is make sure this child can hear prepare if you're not hearing it you're never gonna learn to say it but she's had hearing tests that's normal she does communicate in her own way she makes it obvious what she doesn't doesn't want to do well that will be really useful to ask her parents you know if you ask her to bring me the book show me the car is it actually making sense or is it just a jumble mommy I need you she do she'll just crap it's not a ton to him it's an emotional frustration I'll calm her down she'll calm down when she wants to calm down it could make up a few hours I don't know how to deal with it because I don't know what it is not being able to communicate with the chap described it's so difficult it's horrible not being able to reassure by the age of three children should be using sentences before or five words but with over a million children in the UK living with speech and language difficulties Jessie J is not alone of course along the way if you can't express yourself for whatever reason you're gonna get very very frustrated interrupts and that could be a very neat explanation for all of the problems she's got I need help now to take her down the rat path if she does need help that's okay we just need to know what kind of help she needs as anything that strikes me I don't think there was a single moment when we saw that jawed without a dummy in her mouth and that may or may not be significant dr. Ravi needs to meet both Jessie J and Bobby face-to-face so he's hit the road first stop Lancashire oh yeah only Jessie J's mum hello nice to meet you you're very cute Oh who's that over there what's that hello doggy she looked me straight in the face she high-five me she took me to see the dog so all of that shows that she's she was comfortable with me dr. Ravi is investigating whether Jessie J's having typical toddler tantrums [Music] whether there's something more serious going what's this watching her play was really revealing she has good imaginative play how have things developed in terms of her communication there's a few words they're not clear black mean you would say them okay oh is that for mummy she said he's trying to make sentences as you see I couldn't understand what she was saying but I didn't whether you could follow say even you were struggling with that is he feeling that she's made progress or is she no further on from where she was six months ago the single word she does say they're definitely getting two years what a good girl that does still seem to be some underlying reason why she's not speaking as she should I do think it would be extremely useful to get a specialist speech and language therapist involved just to help to continue to develop her speech and language skills but will solving Jessie J's communication problems sort out her tornado-like tantrums I think the day I have a conversation we are probably crap [Music] dr. Ravi's next appointment is with eight-year-old Bobby whose problems are proving hard to swallow this is Bobby's bag this is Bobby's every day fridge you didn't eat the brownie and his pathology lab our table a yogurt a Milky Way Brogan's and a chocolate brownie the family think Bobby is a food phobia but despite seeing health visitors pediatricians and psychologists they're no closer to broadening Bobby's bizarre diet Bobby's obviously had a lot of input from a lot of people and yet he still has this issue around his eating whether that's a learned behavior because he knows by doing that he will actually get some sweet stuff which is what he seems to exist on or whether there's a physical problem there I don't know to all intents and purposes he's very sociable he's got absolutely normal behavior I'm not advocating for the surprise element it gets on well with children at school and then it comes to his mealtimes so first up is I want you to pull a face like that for me so I can see inside your eyes okay she look lovely and pinky on there he looks like he's doing okay it doesn't look like he's anemic can I pull you so that you're lying flat he's growing nicely his tummy feels fine there's no ulcers or anything his mouth and his teeth don't look too bad to be honest what a big mouth people would often just say oh he's a fussy eater get on with it but I think for Bobby's parents and for Bobby this is a major issue at this age I think there's a chance perhaps to help him to unlearn some of this I'd really like to get a psychologist involved to help mum and dad and more importantly to help Bobby himself with strategies to try to expand his diet a little bit even if you can you know get him into eating pizza or burger or sausages or so you like pizza do you know it's one of those food really wants to eat into and the fact that he wants to do it I think is a really positive thing and just gives me that little light at the end of the tunnel bye-bye it's no really get hopefully what we've been asking for for a long time yeah which is obviously a psychologist to assess him and find out what's causing the issue I like to meet Pete it would make me happy but the pleasures of pizza are still a long way off to find the answers as soon as possible that parents have struggled to get for years requires a team of experts I'd like to ask Helen Gill who's a speech and language therapist to meet Jessie J and her parents a lot of people think that a speech and language therapist is just there for people with stammers and people who can't quite say words but what they can actually do is look at the whole process of communication a three year I've might not speak through a variety of reasons but one thing I do know is that it's rarely straightforward there's normally an awful lot of factors at play hello nice to meet you I'm Helen oh wow there he is again pretty spider it was really interesting that she might have spoken about something that she'd enjoyed when she was looking at the book but she didn't look at me with a social check to make sure that I was also looking at that I've got my favorite little hairbrush cup plates fork these are all words that really should be very familiar to an early three-year-old Jessie J can you show me the hairbrush hairbrush it was really interesting that she really wasn't willing to follow my instructions in terms of actually even looking at them or even noticing them whose the hairbrush is a smelly cell and that's quite unusual for a little girl to the age of three just as I was leaving I was aware that Jessie J was using a little bit of peripheral vision which meant that she was looking just at the corner of her eye and not in a communicative way she was just looking at things around her to speech and language therapists we would certainly regard that as being quite significant Helen has spotted some subtle signs that could indicate this isn't just a speech delay whilst on surface this might look like quite a straightforward case of a little girl not developing spoken language I think actually there's an awful lot of factors at play here and I want to take all of those observations back to the team because I think we've got some really interesting things that we need to consider one possibility is autism which affects around 1 in 100 people it's a condition where pathways in the brain are different affecting social skills communication and behavior patterns such as a fixation on particular interests up to 90% of people on the spectrum also have sensory issues around smells sounds or textures [Music] it's very typical for toddlers to display autistic traits such as not making eye contact having tantrums and repetitive behavior but as they get older children whose brains work a little differently start to stand out from the crowd the average age for an autism diagnosis is around five and a half but remarkably four times more boys are diagnosed and girls world expert professor Tony Atwood strongly disagrees with this ratio of boys to girls with autism I think it's actually probably 5050 but the girls are much smarter in camouflaging their social confusion girls tend to be diagnosed as teenagers and adults when the wheels fall off the boys will tend to be explosive or totally isolated whereas the girls tend to be much more constructive of what am I supposed to do here they are often better observers and analyzers and imitators and some become literally successful actresses it's thought that girls with autism are so good at copying those around them that many slip under the radar I think there are many women who have undiagnosed Asperger's syndrome what they may present with is depression and low self-esteem high levels of anxiety in situations other clinical conditions such as anorexia nervosa borderline personality disorder women are twice as likely as men to experience anxiety and recent research suggests one in five girls with anorexia also display autistic traits but with an earlier diagnosis their lives could be very different Helen's called a meeting with dr. dawn and dr. Ravi to discuss Jessie J she was using words appropriately she was actually putting two words together from time to time as well it seemed that she had good imaginative play and I didn't feel that it was unbalanced more likely that she had a wider behavioral problem because she's a girl I think she actually understands quite a lot of around basic learnt social interactions so she does greet you she say I can't say goodbye she can do very set what looks like imaginative play and it's drawn mummy but in terms of true flexible extending your play I didn't see evidence of that Miami taking people around a Helen thinks Jessie J might be hiding the signs of autism but some traits like peripheral vision she cannot conceal what I was concerned about with her expressive language is definitely affected by the dummy and that's affecting all her speech sounds as well pretty spider but I also think it's providing a bit of a red herring because I think it gives the impression that she there might be more language there than there possibly is those are quite subtle they are subtle things and I certainly didn't pick up on them in the brief time I spent there so you're looking more perhaps towards there being an element of a social communication problem there I think that we can't rule out if you are looking to make a diagnosis of something like autism you are effectively looking at a lifelong condition and it's important that we're absolutely certain before we label a child it's not clear-cut with Jessie J so the team must look for more clues about her behavior [Music] in Doncaster eight-year-old Bobby's food issues are also far from straightforward [Music] even when the family eats at Bobby brings his lunch box of chocolates in yogurt we always use to make sure no we do a look can we get lunch bag out what you just stop looking now yeah Bobby's diet desperately needs to change but straight away the team had heard the team in diagnosing children like Bobby used behavior could have a medical explanation or could just be down two years of getting their own way Bobby only eats sweets yogurts and baked beans but his parents believe is a food phobia so dr. Ravi sent the family to meet psychologist dr. Leanne tizzy around three kids in every classroom have a mental health condition but sadly only a quarter receive support how do you manage at school they amaze me Pat long it can be very hard sometimes to understand why something that such a basic part of life can become such a problem to some individuals and some families miss dr. Leon digs deeper the going gets tough for Bobby this is a hard question Bobby what stops you from eating things you say go and I'd like to hear can-can daddy say it for you is that all right yeah oh what's making you feel upset [Applause] [Music] it's a big step for Bobby to open up about why he's scared hey Brett see if you can say it in your head that you can't eat it this is really hard to say isn't it you're saying that you can so is it like an argument in your head here sometimes people get alarmed when they hear young children talking about voices I think this is just Bobby's way of expressing himself that there's a battle going on inside and it's like there's two voices one saying that he should try it and the other saying that he can't that suggests to me that the main difficulty for him is a fear response to the food even though there's that voice saying that you can't there's a strong bit of you that saying that you can maybe in time what we can do is get that bit stronger to win and beat the other bit who says that you can't this condition has been around for all of Bobby's life and it's very hard to make changes to those sorts of difficulties it will involve putting Bobby into positions where he does feel uncomfortable and I think his parents will find that difficult I think they'd like any good parent they don't like to see their child upset once everyone's done their separate assessments it's really important to get everybody sitting down around the table together so that we can put together the whole picture of what's going on this is the recognized route for diagnosis unfortunately for many families it can take years but for Bobby the assessments taken just a few weeks yeah it's been a concern now for getting on seven or eight years so real looking forward to today mum and dad think Bobby is a food phobia but today they find out from the team led by GP dr. dawn if that is what is stopping him scoffing I personally didn't think there was a medical issue and I wasn't convinced there was a underlying wider behavioural issue I do think that the family have got into quite a pattern now compensating for the difficulties so that mealtimes a pleasant times and the default position is the chocolate mousse but I think we can't afford to leave this another five years because actually he's going to become really medically on my good because his diet is it's a good time together this is not just about Bobby this is gonna be about the family it's gonna be about parents taking a very big role as well in making changes you ready Bobby yeah hi Bobby how you doing we've got a meeting pizzas sausages and burgers that would be tremendous progress the whole point of today is to try and work out how we can help you Bobby to eat a little bit more so what you'd like yeah okay it's clear that he's fine with food until it gets near his mouth and it did strike me that there was obviously something that was just stopping him taking that extra step I think for Bobby there is some genuine fear there about trying new things I think it's quite a scary thing to think about trying new foods do you think it's generally just the phobia then I think what Bobby does have is some fear of trying new foods but I don't think it's so the extent that we would call it a phobia but I think that's something that we need to just keep an eye on previously Bobby you feel anxious at mealtimes and dishes chips out of a place and well I've worked great for it so and we end up going back to that stage we do not want to put you in a situation where your little boy is ultra stressed that is not what we're aiming to do at all in fact what we're aiming to do is exactly the opposite you don't really anxious I'm a bit tearful is there anything specific that we've said that's upset you were just the situation that as a whole whenever you talk about it in depth it sort of brings home the reality of the situation actually accepting that there's a problem and facing up to it is the first step in correcting it okay and I know Leon's got some great ideas and what I want to do is do some work around anxiety and do some structured work around starting to introduce some different foods this isn't something that's going to change overnight it's going to take some time and it's going to take some really hard work so does that sound good to you brilliant and you definitely want to be able to eat more stuff cool weather will be successful or not I don't know what I'm optimistic about is that he himself is motivated to do it and that is going to be key to everything see yeah so Bobby doesn't have a food phobia however if he's anxiety with new foods isn't sorted soon it could become one dr. Leon is confident this is a battle he can win the most difficult thing is how long the difficulties have been around for and of course the longer habits are around for the more difficult that can be to change we know he's not going to sit down next Sunday and I was funded in everything we waited this long we can't let attackers a bit longer as long as Bobby's happy there's no reason why we can't get to where we all want to be Bobby's had his expert assessment but for Jessie J there's still more sleuthing to be done keep going keep going shake I see myself and dr. Ravi made quite different observations for Jessie J he was feeling she was just perhaps a little bit behind for her age whereas the things that I was observing did actually allude to there might be some differences in her interaction Jessie J do you think baby might like to go to sleep silence notice Jessie J's reluctant to follow instructions and play imaginatively I bought some toys with me today and they're the typical sorts of toys I'd expect to a little girl of around the age of three to show some interest in he's little imaginative play sort of knowing how to play socially with toys with dolls and things like that can often be an area where children who have an autism spectrum disorder would struggle with should we change baby's bottom let's get baby out Emmons pleased to see Jessie J's dummy free difference without the dummy I just that's about a boy and just did joke it off for her what was really interesting was Jessie J's talking today because she's now not got the dummy of course I could hear a lot more of the words she was saying and what was really mainly noticeable is that every time I said anything she repeated it straight back get you dressed baby this repetition called echolalia can be a sign of autism wiggle wiggle a lot of young children will copy language because that's how they learn vocabulary of course but for Jessie J it says seem to be different to that she seemed to literally lift whole phrases and them immediately me go baby she okay yeah I wanted to see what would be her reaction to being tickled from behind if I could see that she could feel it but she didn't fully turn around and look at me it's interesting my observations so far have been quite different to dr. Ravitz it tells us one that it's really important to always work in a team get article yeah Kennedy the other thing to consider is that girls who have an autism spectrum disorder or who show those differences in their development they are much more subtle whilst Jessie J's hanging out with Helen Bobbi's also getting a home visit given Bobby's limited diets I'm concerned about him becoming malnourished I think it would be good to ask Gillian Ferren our dietician to meet with his parents just to give them some advice really Gillian showing Bobby and his mum just how unbalanced these deities the first tower shows that's right the orange bricks on both towers represent snacks and high-fat sugary foods Bobby's currently consuming 11 times the recommended amount for his age what we know from recent research is that children who struggle with their diet also struggle with their learning and behavior at school whilst Bobby gets a lesson in healthier habits Helens taken our investigation to Jessie J's nursery to see if she has the same rigid routines outside of home as soon as we say it's time to out to play Jess serve domestic doesn't get the weather right even though none of the other children are doing that yeah if you suggested that she didn't put her wellies on would you anticipate that that would be problematic for her yeah I sure would get a bit upset in a bit distress so even in summer Jessie J's sticking to routines she first learnt in winter well this has been a really useful day for me I've got loads of information to take back to the team there we go this one if Jessie J's on the autistic spectrum finding the right support early could be life-changing providing her with a much brighter future fifteen-year-old rosie was diagnosed with high-functioning autism age nine everyone's brain is wired differently but mine brain is wired extra differently like super deluxe differently yeah little brother Lenny has autism and my parents are getting all these books to try and understand what what they were dealing with you yeah and I read one and a merged to link up a few of the symptoms to myself and it turns out my parents had as well it doesn't really affect me as much as it used to still like my things in a very specific order like my CDs have to be an alphabetical order and my books have to be an alphabetical order and if it isn't I freaked out of it I fidget a lot because my mind's always running my minds kind of connected well everyone's mind connected to the body but and when my mind gets excited my body gets excited so I I'm always fidgeting it's thought seven out of ten people with autism have mental health problems like anxiety or depression so having people around them who understand the condition is crucial especially when in high school when I was really really down and they don't think I would I got through without that support so I thought I owe them a lot Rosie's already written her first book illustrated another he's learning the guitar and applying for college as far as I'm concerned I'm like a lot of teenagers because I'm a diagnosis have got a lot of opportunities to I'm very happy about it the early of the diagnosis the more support can be put in place to manage problems like anxiety [Music] today Bobby's facing his anxiety as he starts work with dr. Leanne to win his war against food it's the first session and what I'm really hoping to do today is first of all set some goals and then start some practical work with Bobby do you think that you could draw a really wiring ladder that fills that whole page the idea with the ladder is that it allows us to get a structure around the different challenges that Bobby needs to take on if you're going to climb up a ladder where do you start down at the bottom of the ladder we can put the foods that are perhaps a little bit easier for him and we can put the more difficult things right up at the top of the ladder what things might go here fish a fish no never never do fish for him eating fish feels like a really really difficult task poor fish she cooked that whereas food down at the bottom of the ladder that he actually sounded quite excited about what I'm trying to do is just get a truth you see a stick get him motivated and hopefully make some positive steps so poppadoms Bobby wants to start with does that sound like a reasonable place yeah if that's where he wants to be it's Bobby yeah Bobby's not going to be able to do this on his own Sally and Craig need to stick with it and not back down but to encourage him to keep going with it good luck thank you thank you as soon as he gets home Bobby is keen to start climbing his food ladder not gonna try papadum Bobby's only ever eaten yogurts sweets and baked beans could a papadum be one bite too far they're nice there's no scary about it is this like Chris spent a look at it and like no your mom tell you sleeve it eat it I reckon it Canadian over after that just done well you make someone needs to calm down a bit when he eats anything she said to my it space that he's eating because you're asking in tough not because you could see it was trouble in Leon's watching the footage to see how Bobby fared with his first-ever papadum oh there's a lot of attention in that situation there because Bobby's getting a real mixed message from his parents there on the one hand he's getting the encouragement to to eat but on the other hand Sally's being quite nervous there I think if he's enjoying it then there's no reason why you shouldn't carry on and eat a bit more well no mate I five well done mate I won't try to pee mom and dad must work as a team to help Bobby to change the habits of a lifetime [Music] it's diagnosis day for Jessie J and dr. Dawn's brought together the team to decide whether Jessie J has a speech delay or autism I'm feeling a bit nervous because you don't want to hear something there's some things you don't want it to be I suppose and you want her to despair okay obviously if there is something wrong we are don't know what it means it could be nothing could be something it's just more important to know that I can help her down whatever Lord she needs to go for the past year mom and dad have been concerned about three-year-old Jessie J's behavior luckily enough they weren't a car there and today they're hoping for answers I feel quite thought fingers crossed we'll move forward Jessie J's been a puzzle from the start but since their last meeting speech and language therapist Helen has gathered more evidence for the team to see my aim was to try and work out whether or not Willa can a little girl who simply has delayed language or whether or not there could be something like an autism spectrum disorder going on so I brought some footage for us to have a look at today [Music] when she's doing something she wants to be doing she's quite happy to do it but she's not taking any direction from Helen at all candles out she appears to be playing quite happily with Helen but there's very little eye contact when she was tickled on the neck there she she didn't really react I mean normally a child with the very least look around do you time baby I was there for about an hour and she just did the same thing again and again and again I think it's a little girl we limited play ideas Richard yeah it sounds to me you hadn't like you're quite concerned yeah yeah I am really I think certainly we do have a little girl who has significant numbers of behaviors and symptoms that could indicate autism space order to death I think we're probably at a stage where we're ready to have a chat with mom and dad aren't we I think so yeah okay it's never easy to tell parents things that they don't really want to hear and it never gets any easier to do but I think it's important for us as professionals to be honest and chemistry and we'll tell you what we think so far yes I think it's fair to say there's no doubt that we were all a little bit concerned about her speech one of the things that Helen particularly noticed was some issues around how she actually interacts um communicate we've had a long discussion and Helen's made some really interesting observations and we do feel that with her communication issues she does have a lot of features that would suggest that her behavior fits into the autistic spectrum and in many ways it means that we can now move on and do things to actually make things better she's through we've got a whole year to get her ready for school and get the right back hello and I think we just I think everyone has been saying it could be that and and we've just been not wanting it to be that yeah more for a future more than anything you know somewhat I mean I don't know Helen whether you just want to highlight some of the things that you've found in your observations that made us come to the conclusions that we go I don't think any of us could question she'd rather fixed in the way she thinks yeah so things are very much on her terms she doesn't really engage in social chat it tends to be what she's wanted to talk about it's perfectly managed to lose the dummy but it's allowed us to here though is that actually she's using a lot of echolalia which means it's copying back of language yeah when I've said short phrases to her she refers me straight back she was doing the same with you as well yes yeah did you finding that that's handy yeah it's more reinforcement to make sure that the dummy remains away because we want her to keep chatting does things like this get worse in fact I would say the opposite would be true that once you've recognized that there's a problem and you've got the back of the support actually yeah it looks at her is much better I want to get in touch with your local team and flag up what we found on our assessments and I really like them to be aware of what we think so they can pick up the ball and start running with it thank you sneer I think we had to tell Jessie J's parents that we felt that she was on the autistic spectrum and judging from mom's reaction I don't think she was ready to hear that I don't think she was expecting that and I think it's gonna take a little while for all of that to sink in really it's an upsetting town I suppose obsessing but better definitely get out there now and sort it out hmm it's a major deal for any mom to face a diagnosis or something like autism in their child but hopefully when the dust is settled Marie will see today as a positive thing because actually the outlook for Jessie J now she has a diagnosis is so much brighter for a gift since the diagnosis Chris and Marie are seeking more help and advice from their local NHS team no no daddy no daddy 14 weeks ago Bobby had never had a hot meal and was existing on a diet of yogurts beans and tweets today I use visiting dr. Leanne for the last time video oh look at you tucking in that the first time you pass yourself yeah if you're a boy or a girl yeah and it's not just Peter that's making him proud 20 new Sally and Craig have also been working hard a soft-touch unit master yeah it's easy for me to said to him like don't eat it there's no ice cream and sort of knows that that's I was gonna be now with 20 new foods in his diet and energized Bobby's on the right track decided school report and that's it that's some praising for a change yeah and he's having a proper pub lunch oh is that some foliage oh yeah if coming though with a Vince he says I answer to Dairy Milk in ages even a visit to the curry house is now without the lunch box of chocolate the big moment one way to go in it by an old stretch of imagination but for now chicken korma is still a dish too far it's true free himself into you like to tell everyone Luce I like Peter cheese some way turkey Bansal Yoshi pudding pop it down and being from toes I'm peers but was a lovely meal [Music]

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Length: 46min 45sec (2805 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 20 2019