YES and his age is about right for saying it, TOO!My oldest n/t son loved and loves cars still. Ever since I could remember he
has been saying vroom. I thought I was hearing things at first as well but I
just encouraged it by saying vroom a lot.
I would keep on saying I drive around cars/ car toys and encourage any
sound/ attempts at verrbalization because with the right reinforcement and
enough modeling he may verbalize some more.
I have heard of kids being nonverbal and then going to straight to talking sentences..I always watched Sarah like a hawk thinking she would do this..she didnt:) But it does happen:)
I hope it opened a floodgate for him and he starts to overflow with sentences!! So excited for you!
What you should do is continually prompt him to say the phrase again. So next time he goes in his toy car, say "i drive". hopefully he'll repeat you and eventually this will be part of his lexicon. then, when he says it, give him a ton of verbal reinforcement.
Good luck!!!
I didn't read the whole thread, but my parents and grandparents say that I went from babbling or jibberish to talking in complete clear sentences at age 2 1/2.
Andrew blurted out clear words and sentences srtarting around age 2 or so. I always got excited, but I knew it was real when he used a phrase or word 3 different times in the right context. That is still my rule of thumb today.
By the way, since we've been back from vacation, his speech is all garbled and he doesn't say anyhting clearly without prompting or concentration...This seems normal for him with "change"...I expect it to get better by next week when school will be consistent and 5 days in a row!
When T was about 18 mos. she suddenly announced from her high chair (my back was turned!) "Okay, Mama. Allll gone!" I turned around, gasped, and asked, "Did YOU SAY THAT?" She laughed and said, "Yeah!" Nothing much else came out, and nothing that long, until about 2.3 yrs, after seh started EI speech.Hi Cindy my daughter is nearly 6 (in August). Unfortunately we dont get the kind of therapy available in the States here in Australia. We have 2 kids with autism and couldn't afford to do ABA- you pay for it privately here. So we paid for speech therapy instead.In the end I asked the therapist to work on PECS with Roslyn as she needed a way to communicate as her sppeech was not really going any where. Lately I have noticed she is coming out with a few more words. Sometimes she loses words as well. She used to say "more" a lot and now that one is very rare to hear(since school this year- they don''t use sign language at her autism school). She used to tap her chest and say "more" when she wanted a particular food. I just handed Ros a cloth amoment ago as she had spilt milk on the table and asked her to wipe it up so as she was wiping she kept saying"wiping"