Hi BusyMum and littlelion. Thank you for your kind replies and suggestions. I have ordered The Out of Sync Child, I'm still waiting for it in the post from Amazon, I can't wait to read it.

The paediatrician just said that Soren has autistic spectrum condition and that they don't grade it in any way (well, in the UK anyway) but she said he is very high functioning. His teachers at school (he started school in Sept) said that his reading, spelling, numeracy is advanced for his age group, so he is bright. I asked the paediatrician if Soren had SPD and she said that they don't label him with that as a separate disorder, and that it is just all part and package of his autism. I don't have any autistic traits but I do also suffer from sensitivity to noise, and I have strange feeling in my wrists and ankles often, in that I have to rotate them a lot in order for me to feel them properly. I just used to think it was a wierd thing that I did since a child, but now I realise that this is probably a mild sensory issue.

Soren's jumping up and down and humming started before he started school, so around his 4th birthday in March. I was just wondering whether as the body/mind of a child matures they start to react to their bodies more, and hence the stimming now, whilst the stimming was very slight when he was younger (opening and closing fist when excited). Littlelion did you have OT for your asd and spd? Thank you again.