My Daughter was diagnosed with Autism yesterday

[Chelsea01]

Hi, our Daughter was born at 30weeks and has always been a year behind children of her own age our daughter started nursery at 2years ( now age 4)and the nursery teacher had noticed just how behind she was...our daughter has help with her speech and has been going backwards and forwards to see a specialist and after all this time outr daughter has been diagnosed with Autism. We are off to Orlando in October for 2weeks...we can not wait we r not sure how our daughter is going to cope with the waiting times she mabe ok we just don't know...we have done long haul flights in the past with her and had no problems but the theme parks mabe a different thing. Any advice would be most appreciated! When we visit Orlando we are a party of 4 adults and 2 children.

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[Mallky555]

You can get a disability access card for her if the queuing is an issue. At guest services I believe. We are travelling in August with ds 11 who was diagnosed with high functioning autism in August of last year. We have visited the theme parks numerous times but never during peak times so we shall see how he goes.
I hope all goes great for you and I'm sure it will be x

[Chelsea01]

Originally Posted by Mallky555

You can get a disability access card for her if the queuing is an issue. At guest services I believe. We are travelling in August with ds 11 who was diagnosed with high functioning autism in August of last year. We have visited the theme parks numerous times but never during peak times so we shall see how he goes.
I hope all goes great for you and I'm sure it will be x

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Many thanks x

[*cath*]

My son is Autistic and couldn't cope with the queues so we went to guest relations at Disney and Universal and they were fab, got a fastpass which meant we either got straight on a ride or where told when to come back, they were really helpful

[Chelsea01]

Originally Posted by *cath*

My son is Autistic and couldn't cope with the queues so we went to guest relations at Disney and Universal and they were fab, got a fastpass which meant we either got straight on a ride or where told when to come back, they were really helpful

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Thank you for your reply. Did all in your party get to go on all together or was it just 1 adult to go on with your child?

[DisneyBride08]

When we last went to Orlando in 2012 it was just before our son got his formal diagnosis. We had the pass for the queues for him which was fantastic. They also gave us as sticker that turned his buggy into the same status as a wheelchair. This meant we could keep him in it to see Fantasmic.

We are going agin this year and it will be the second flight for my son, I have no idea if he remembers the last one. We are more worried about how our three year old will be on the plane.

[*cath*]

Originally Posted by Chelsea01

Thank you for your reply. Did all in your party get to go on all together or was it just 1 adult to go on with your child?

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There were 5 of us in the party and we all got fastpasses
Also we got to sit in the reserved area at Fantasmic. The staff were really good

[cherylc5773]

Request special assistance off your airline for disembarking the aircraft and navigating the airport.

My son has autism and we were met at the plane door (virgin) and bypassed the 3 hour queue at immigration by a member of staff to a special queue.

[Gryff]

Check out Autismattheparkscom all the info you may need for any of the parks airport etc on there

[Megandllsmum]

You've had some brilliant advice already , this section of the dibb is so helpful 👍👍
My daughter was diagnosed with autism when she was 4 too, she's nearly 9 now ... she had trouble queuing and that's when the DAS card was brilliant but we found we didn't really have to use it that much because fast passes worked so well for us.
Hopefully you'll be amazed how well she copes I know we were, there's so much to see and do that in itself is a distraction. Take things at your daughters pace that's what works best for us ... we still got loads done and had the best of times x