How we got Elijah Help

I am writting this post in case there is some one out there who has concerns about their child and doesnt know how to address them. First of all i want to say, it wasnt overly obvious to me first that Elijah needed help. He is very normal to me in so many ways. In our daily family routine he has his peice of he family puzzle just like my other 2. He is our son, he is a brother both a big brother and a little brother. He is silly, loving, fun, smart, sensitive, caring...i couldnt tell wether it was just going to be his personality or the way he was. I would look at the things he could do and say well he can do xy and z so he must be ok! The thing that drove me to get him help was he couldnt communicate and i could tell it bothered him. I can only imagine what life would be like not being able to speak words or understand them that are spoken to you. How frusterating! So i spoke to Elijahs Peidtrition, to qualify for Early Intervention services or EI as it is often called you must have a referral. So Elijah doctor wrote one for me. I met with his service cordinator, she came to my house. And we disscussed my concerns. And based on them we found a childrens developmental acessor. The company Bright Starts did elijahs. He basically flunked every thing. At the acessment they reccomended that he be acessed for sensory intake by an ocupational therepist. once the accessment were done my service cordinator called around like crazy trying to find speech special ed and ocupational therepy. it took 2 months to finally get an ocupational threrepist. I guess they are super high demand! Now that Elijah has a lable I have to choose an intensive therepy service, i will have in home therepy for some where between 10 and 30 hrs a week. eek! I have been waiting to hear from them. They will come to my house and present their programs. And then i must decide who to go with. Then in the fall elijah will be sent to an intergrated pre school. Where they mix normally developing children and delayed learners all in one class room. He will receive all of his services in one spot. And then come back home. I am not looking forward to that at all. But elijahs well being is more important than what i want. All of this so far has taken place in a 4 month time span. Its alot of work and phone calls and schedualing. But i am up for it, some say it is possible to recover from autisium...i dont just want elijah to recover from it..i want him to kick it in the rear! and i fully exspect him to.