My son is 22months old .. He do eye contact play with his cousins but not with other children … he speaks his own words ap da ka… if we told him to speak mama papa he don’t.. he understands everything and talk to us with gestures if he needs something.. is this a speech delay or autism?

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in this query it is very difficult to comment here without knowing the proper history and without clinical evaluation.
proper treatment suggestions would be given in certain cases only after proper clinical examination so it will be better if you visit your doctor for proper treatmenthere than for more guidance youvg can discuss with your doctor and get  cleared all the  further queries and you will be given all the required guidance which you can follow accordingly ...

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Parents of young children with autism often report delayed speech as their first concern, but speech delay is not specific to autism. Delayed speech is also present in young children with global developmental delay caused by intellectual disability and those with severe to profound hearing loss.