Hi again Ming, I'm stopping by to give an update an share my child's story -- now that we "know the answer". Maybe this will be helpful to some parents. At around 21 months my boy didn't speak, had barely any words and didn't even say "mom" or "dad". We took him to a speech therapist. He was tired and fearful of her. She called his name, and he responded only on the 4th time. She asked how he asks for things, and we told her he hand pulls us, or lays our hands on toys. He did point to things, but not very often. The therapist hinted she thought he had autism. My husband and I felt she was wrong, for many reasons, but of course I became fearful that she's right, and spent many nights not sleeping. I also heard on your website were you shared a study that shows speech therapists usually guess correctly whether a child has autism or not. This statistic also worried me. We decided to stop the speech therapy and focus on our son ourselves. My son is now almost 24 months. This week he used 40+ words (and two two-word sentences), that he himself initiated. It happened over a course of a week!!! In one day he suddenly said "dad", "mom" and even his own name. He no longer hand pulls, but says "dad come". He's in daycare and is extremely social with the other kids. We took him two weeks ago to a different speech therapist. She said his nonverbal communication is excellent, and any signs of autism are miles away from him! In fact, she says his speech delay in 'borderline' and she's not even certain whether or not he would benefit from therapy. Other things I'd like to mention: I read the book "Late talking children" by Prof. Camarata (the only one that gave some hope and optimism to late talking children. Most websites I came across give lists of potential problems, and forget to mention that many times it's just a delay that goes away!). He mentions there that late talking children tend to have several things in common. One is that they tend to be strong willed and focus on tasks they care about, like puzzles, to the point of not responding to others around them. This describes my son so well. He responds to his name almost always, but when he does one of his puzzles - which he loves- he can ignore us. He's doing 24 piece puzzles now, which is on the advanced side for his age. Also, he draws faces: If I draw a large circle for him, he adds two circles for eyes, then a line for the nose as well as a mouth all by himself, which is also advanced for his age. Could this mean that perhaps late talking children develop the analytical and visual sides of their brain before the verbal? Just a thought.
My Son 2, can sing , name things , abc , count to. 100 , only recently he started saying things that don’t really make sense , the whole entire time he would be quiet , in SOUTH AFRICA we don’t get a diagnosis until a child is 3 , we have started speech therapy ( been to 2 sessions ) your content has been really helpful I see some improvements
Agents of speech is really a germ channel to me. I wish he was in south africa, my kid got diagnosed at 2, at red cross children's hospital fortunately for me, and they helped me start with therapy immediately, just that i stooped for some time but we went back....but because of lack of resources and lack of understanding of this diagnoses in out country ..even by professionals is alarming sometimes if i am even say so especially in gauteng province, I'm.now in pretoria and I'm disappointed by the service they give us (they let inexperienced students work alone and rather ask u questions about the diagnosis) u just go for ideas and for the sake of it but it's really not helping, because they not doing anything to even try and understand my son, instead untill I did my own research and the help of mang. I've seen some improvements. He is 5 now a Bit behind, follows instructions well but have little language like +- 6 worss how, he try to communicate in his own way by hand pulling, points now for objects and or bring the objects to u to try and figure out what he wants, he greets and says goodbye all the time even to strangers it's as if he know his having fews words right how his excited to greet!.. also the obvious counts, sings, and abc's recently got diagnoses with adhd but I'm just not happy with public service and lact of schools when u don't have the coins for public health and private schools. I feel life the state can do better coz now his home because of a long list God knows how long it will take just for an educational therapist then on another list for school . It's said really!
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Hi again Ming, I'm stopping by to give an update an share my child's story -- now that we "know the answer". Maybe this will be helpful to some parents.
At around 21 months my boy didn't speak, had barely any words and didn't even say "mom" or "dad". We took him to a speech therapist. He was tired and fearful of her. She called his name, and he responded only on the 4th time. She asked how he asks for things, and we told her he hand pulls us, or lays our hands on toys. He did point to things, but not very often. The therapist hinted she thought he had autism.
My husband and I felt she was wrong, for many reasons, but of course I became fearful that she's right, and spent many nights not sleeping. I also heard on your website were you shared a study that shows speech therapists usually guess correctly whether a child has autism or not. This statistic also worried me. We decided to stop the speech therapy and focus on our son ourselves.
My son is now almost 24 months. This week he used 40+ words (and two two-word sentences), that he himself initiated. It happened over a course of a week!!! In one day he suddenly said "dad", "mom" and even his own name. He no longer hand pulls, but says "dad come". He's in daycare and is extremely social with the other kids. We took him two weeks ago to a different speech therapist. She said his nonverbal communication is excellent, and any signs of autism are miles away from him! In fact, she says his speech delay in 'borderline' and she's not even certain whether or not he would benefit from therapy.
Other things I'd like to mention: I read the book "Late talking children" by Prof. Camarata (the only one that gave some hope and optimism to late talking children. Most websites I came across give lists of potential problems, and forget to mention that many times it's just a delay that goes away!). He mentions there that late talking children tend to have several things in common. One is that they tend to be strong willed and focus on tasks they care about, like puzzles, to the point of not responding to others around them. This describes my son so well. He responds to his name almost always, but when he does one of his puzzles - which he loves- he can ignore us. He's doing 24 piece puzzles now, which is on the advanced side for his age. Also, he draws faces: If I draw a large circle for him, he adds two circles for eyes, then a line for the nose as well as a mouth all by himself, which is also advanced for his age. Could this mean that perhaps late talking children develop the analytical and visual sides of their brain before the verbal? Just a thought.
Wow I'm so encouraged...❤
My Son 2, can sing , name things , abc , count to. 100 , only recently he started saying things that don’t really make sense , the whole entire time he would be quiet , in SOUTH AFRICA we don’t get a diagnosis until a child is 3 , we have started speech therapy ( been to 2 sessions ) your content has been really helpful I see some improvements
Agents of speech is really a germ channel to me. I wish he was in south africa, my kid got diagnosed at 2, at red cross children's hospital fortunately for me, and they helped me start with therapy immediately, just that i stooped for some time but we went back....but because of lack of resources and lack of understanding of this diagnoses in out country ..even by professionals is alarming sometimes if i am even say so especially in gauteng province, I'm.now in pretoria and I'm disappointed by the service they give us (they let inexperienced students work alone and rather ask u questions about the diagnosis) u just go for ideas and for the sake of it but it's really not helping, because they not doing anything to even try and understand my son, instead untill I did my own research and the help of mang. I've seen some improvements. He is 5 now a Bit behind, follows instructions well but have little language like +- 6 worss how, he try to communicate in his own way by hand pulling, points now for objects and or bring the objects to u to try and figure out what he wants, he greets and says goodbye all the time even to strangers it's as if he know his having fews words right how his excited to greet!.. also the obvious counts, sings, and abc's recently got diagnoses with adhd but I'm just not happy with public service and lact of schools when u don't have the coins for public health and private schools. I feel life the state can do better coz now his home because of a long list God knows how long it will take just for an educational therapist then on another list for school . It's said really!
Great to see another south african on this channel I think mang is good
Another south african mom here❤