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Hello Parents!
Well, K is 2 years and 8 months now. First off, no regression. Words that he
lost are coming back now. He imitates everything we say, and anything he hears
on TV. His vocabulary is upto about 70 words now, he says simple things like
"Daddy, no", or "Daddy, please" or "Open, door",
and of course, things like "All done", "more",
"drink", "Juice", "cup", etc etc.
I guess I was so hung up on words like a lot of the parents here, words are
really not the breakthrough I expected, maybe I am being overly critical, I
don't know. It's like a couple of months ago I was like man, why can't he just
say "CUP!" Well now he says all the words, now I am stressing because
he isn't saying phrases, and the phrases he says he has to work a lot on.
Anyway, his EI/OT/Speech therapist are wonderful and I truly believe without
them we would have been lost. We have an evaluation from our local school in
December to see if he will qualify for the speech program at the local
elementary school which he can stay in for half a day every day until he is
ready for first grade. We are hopeful, but we’ll see. He does fine in social
situations but lately the only thing that worries is me is his obsession with
watching sesame street/laurie berkner videos. In the mornings when I come downstairs
to get something to eat and head to work, his eyes light up and he grabs my
hand and is like “Daddy, mooovie tease” which means “Daddy movie please!”. When
I say no he goes in to a mini meltdown, but gets over it if I show him another
toy.
I don’t know – I guess I should count my blessings that he
is talking, social and is well behaved in public and in restaurants, but its
hard being a parent who only has friends with normal kids so its like my kid is
always being observed, although they find it amazing that he can write a couple
of words (on his doodle pad) and read about 20-30 words at his age.
Sounds like K is making good progress. He is still young and eh is speaking and starting to string those words together. Also about the video. My NT cousins both have these obsessions. The 4 y/o is like hat with on demand cause she knows I am the only one who knows how to work it and asks for specific parts. My 9 y/o was like that when he was little with Thomas. I saw some cousins over the week. The one little boy was obsessed with super hero.
Thanks for the reply, at this point my real big concern is the repetition, he has a lot of computer toys, like mini laptops and leap frog stuff, he likes to press the same button over and over again, and sometimes he does it and waits for one of us to give him the look , so I don't know if he is being a 2 year old or this is one of his quirks.
scdad, I have THREE kids with those mini-laptops, and leap pad, etc. ... and to tell you the truth, it sounds NT, to me. My kids are 8 (ASD) 6.5 (ADHD) and 5.5 (NT, possibly gifted, very bright). The NT one is WORST at this!
They all love to sit there hitting the button to get the same result, over and over until I feel my brain is gonna fall outta my HEAD.
We confiscate the toy for a short period (several hours) and tell them if they cannot stop hitting one button like that, it WILL go away for a longer time.