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My son is diagnosed with mild to moderate autism. He is starting to say one word at a time. Anyone elses child diagnosed with mild to moderate autism and is talking? And how old did he start talking? My boys are not talking yet. Still have hope that one day they will.I just wanna hear atleast 1 word from each of them. Kwamane my 2 yr old says Ma Ma but thats basically all. Kristian my 8 yr old has no words at all. Its so sad because all he does is cry all day and its so hard to figure out what he wants. I am beggining to use PECS with him. So theres hope and I will not stop!!!! My boy is almost 4 and he is barely about to say two word sentiences. More then not however it's for requests... well except for the occasional "Oh shut up" Oh wait that is a request!
My DS is 15 and he talks and communicates pretty well in the sense that he gets his ideas across, but his language is all out of order. He has a huge single word vocabulary, but he is lost when it comes to syntax. Still, that doesn't stop him from trying to convey his ideas verbally and he usually succeeds. He had 6 words at 18 months and 25 age 2.5 but most of these words were not functional. He began to functionally communicate by age 3 but he did not put two words together until 5 and then, not that often. He always spoke better when in crisis. ANd he still speaks better when the impetus for speech comes from him. He's worse at answering YOUR questions, but he does...he just is better at blabbing about what HE wants to say. Just so you know, my DS also has hearing loss, so most PDD-NOS kids I know talk far better than this by their teen years. Almost normally. For some, totally normally. Also, most of our teen kids never got ABA. My guess is that children who have gotten intense ABA in their early years will speak far better. The neurological window of opportunity for language begins to close at age 4, which is why early intervention is so critical. Get your child as many services as you can as early as you can with ABA being the gold standard and my bet is you will see pretty good progress. We went GF/CF 4 days ago and I swear Jackson is trying soooohard to say something. He purses his lips together (like he's going to whistle) and lightly closes his eyes (it's so cute) and makes this sound like he's trying to get something out, but can't quite do it. You can see it in his face...he's so close! He's not said any words as of yet, but I really think he will. He's 29 months My son never had a language delay. Only at 3 did we notice the echolalia and scripting. After testing, he was shown to have an expressive language delay: more an issue on how he uses language.Nowwhat Thanks for everyone's replies. My son has been recieving ABA since he turned 2 yrs. And it has helped him tremondously. He was recieving speech therapy for a while and the teacher was really good and he was learning really well with her. Unfortunatly she had to discontinue service with him because she was moving to another state. Now he has not have speech for over 3 months and I can not find another speech therapist because of high demands My son can say without any prompting the words: juice, milk, bye bye, no, ball. When he see animals he likes to make theirs sounds then say the name of the animals, although he does know some of the animal names when I ask him. When I ask him what are the names of the sesame street characters he can say all of them. He understand simple commands I tell him. When I ask him to do something he does it. He does of course have many tantrums and cries because he can not express his wants and needs. Also I really suggest everyone to purchase Babybumblebee videos. They are really great. My son asked to watch these videos all day if he can. He repeats all the words they teach him. He actually says the words and imitates what the childern do. &nb sp; http://www.babybumblebee.com Junior at age 2 and Fabain still nothing, he was saying EIEIO in response to "Old MAcDOnald" but he stopped that all together
ADAM says mama,dede(daddy)duce(juice)muk(milk)buba(bubba-brother)byeby es,cool(school)at(hat)duh(duck) this all just started coming out in the last 3 months since he's been in therapy through the school system. just take it in stride each child is different and just because he's not saying one word today doesn't mean he might not say 4 words tomorrow, also count "almost words" sometimes they say things but because the enounciation isn't clear you may miss it. My son never had a true language delay either. He had 3 words (other than mama and dada) plus all animal sounds and letter sounds at 15 months, 20words at 18 months, and a large vocab by age 2 that included 2-3 word sentences. Most of his language us was functional or labling til he was about 2.5 then he started actually having conversations and answering questions appropriately. Now at 3 he talks in complete sentences BUT still struggles with pragmatics some and isn't a great conversationalist but can if he wants to. My son was talking around the same time as "normal" kids do. But, he was just repeating things off of tv or from his story books. He wouldn't tell me if he was hungry or thirsty or if his diaper was dirty but he would answer yes or no if I asked him a question. having issues. Briana spoke three words before she turned 12 mos, then suddenly stopped speaking but used signs until 32 months, then slowly re-learned to speak. Now her pre-k teacher says she has ADD-type issues and is very solitary among peers - but she's a dramatic chatterbox among adults! Jair waved and said Byeeeeee at some point between 12-18 months, but then stopped, and we didn't hear from him again until 24 months, when he started saying "I-wan-it." He doesn't wave or understand waving now. From 24 months, his vocabulary has steadily grown, but he doesn't understand/use language correctly. He used to only echo, but now he labels and makes requests. ...I'd actually forgotten that he used to wave, but we were looking at old vacation pictures, and remembered a time when he was embarrassing Briana by waving at everyone in a restaurant. She pulled his hand down and apologized to this stranger, said, "He waves at everybody." LOL Also, my mom reminded me of a time when we left him at their house (12-16 mos?) and he waved and said "byeeeeeeeeeeee." Lia turned one yesterday and only says "nay, neen," and doesn't use gestures, and doesn't seem to care about us - besides just to get her things. She avoids eye contact, but will stare at your mouth and play with it. All three kids have been read to and teacher-ed like crazy, so it's certainly not from lack of effort on my part! ... Don't you hate it when people say, "well, I read to him a lot, and talked to him a lot, and didn't use baby talk!" @@ [QUOTE=Nowwhat]My son never had a language delay. Only at 3 did we notice the echolalia and scripting. After testing, he was shown to have an expressive language delay: more an issue on how he uses language. My son was very similar. Lots of echolalia from around the age of two, but he didn't seem to get the concept of communication. His recessive language skill were practically nil. He had difficulty following simple instructions, like "Go get your shoes". Midway through kindergarten, the lightbulb seemed to go on, and the floodgates of communications opened wide. Talking to him now, you would never know that he had any kind of communication issues, though he still processes things very literally from time to time. A few weeks ago my parents were staying with the kids, and wanted to take them out to dinner. Connor was on the computer, and my Mom called out to him "Where's your jacket". He told her that it should be in the hall closet. She went to the closet to look for it, and couldn't find it. She called out, "Where is it, sweetie"? His reply, "It's the white door with the gold handle". |
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