Danielle Dickinson, 31, a business owner from Morpeth, Northumberland, said she waited almost four and a half years for her now 11-year-old son Wyatt’s autism diagnosis in 2019, and is back on the waiting list for her youngest son, Zuri, aged three.
He has been there since February and she said she will not send him to school until he has a diagnosis.
She said: “Having that in place says, ‘actually, I’m not doing anything wrong, it’s not my parenting’, I have that stamp to say there is something neurodiverse with my child – it does add an extra layer of protection.”
She added: “He will not be going anywhere until he has that parcel and package ready to go and say ‘this is what he needs, this is what you’re going to deliver’.
“So not having a diagnosis has had a massive impact to schooling and education because he simply can’t go at the minute.”
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