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When did your child start talking?
1 year, son 10%  10%  [ 14 ]
1 year, son 10%  10%  [ 14 ]
2 years, son 10%  10%  [ 14 ]
2 years, son 10%  10%  [ 14 ]
3 years, son 10%  10%  [ 14 ]
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4 years, son 1%  1%  [ 2 ]
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5 years, son 1%  1%  [ 2 ]
5 years, son 1%  1%  [ 2 ]
6 years or older, son 1%  1%  [ 1 ]
6 years or older, son 1%  1%  [ 1 ]
1 year, daughter 10%  10%  [ 14 ]
1 year, daughter 10%  10%  [ 14 ]
2 years, daughter 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
2 years, daughter 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
3 years, daughter 4%  4%  [ 5 ]
3 years, daughter 4%  4%  [ 5 ]
4 years, daughter 3%  3%  [ 4 ]
4 years, daughter 3%  3%  [ 4 ]
5 years, daughter 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
5 years, daughter 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
6 years or older, daughter 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
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06 Jun 2011, 1:38 am

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Coming up to four and not 'talking yet. Might get a day where he says one or two individual words crystal clear but in an odd tone.
But it's totally random a bit like him, bless the little guy. :)

1 year on from that post and no words at all anymore



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06 Jun 2011, 2:10 am

Words - 10 months - by 18 months she could say and spell elephant and hippopotamus.
Short sentences - 2 words after 2 years
3-4 word sentences - 4 years
She's only just started to try conversations at 5.5 years



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07 Jun 2011, 9:12 am

My 6.5 year old daughter (possible aspie IMO) talked precociously early. Actually it wasn't that "early" overall...she had a few words before age 1, but then she gained language very quickly and could speak in sentences very early. She still excels at speech, but I would say that she has a few minor difficulties with pragmatic speech...she is going to public school next year and I'm very interested to see what happens. She refuses to talk on the phone (even to people she knows very well), and has developed a slight stutter.

My 3.5 year old son (possible PDD-NOS IMO) has been speech delayed. He started therapy through EI at 18 months and had a couple of single words at that point. He stayed at that point for a while...at 2 years 5 months he had only gained a couple of words. Then he started to gain more, and by 2 years 8 months (ish) he started putting them together into 2 words phrases. He's now 3 years 10 months and is considered "age appropriate", though he still has some intelligibility issues and some of the late-developing sounds (L, R) are still muddy. But he uses long sentences and can carry on fairly good conversations.

I'm not sure whether either of my kids are truly on the spectrum or not as we haven't pursued diagnosis, but I'm relatively certain at this point that they both have at least a big toe on it. :lol:



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07 Jun 2011, 9:16 pm

Stubbydog wrote:
She refuses to talk on the phone (even to people she knows very well),.


Mines the same. She'll be chattering and when we pass her the phone with grandma on the other end - she goes quiet!



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09 Jun 2011, 8:39 pm

nostromo wrote:
nostromo wrote:
Coming up to four and not 'talking yet. Might get a day where he says one or two individual words crystal clear but in an odd tone.
But it's totally random a bit like him, bless the little guy. :)

1 year on from that post and no words at all anymore


:( I know...it kind of feels like a slipping away.

But when I get to feeling down about it, I remind myself that he had speech before, so there's a chance he could speak again.



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10 Jun 2011, 1:27 am

Bauhauswife wrote:
nostromo wrote:
nostromo wrote:
Coming up to four and not 'talking yet. Might get a day where he says one or two individual words crystal clear but in an odd tone.
But it's totally random a bit like him, bless the little guy. :)

1 year on from that post and no words at all anymore

Those are exactly my thoughts too.

:( I know...it kind of feels like a slipping away.

But when I get to feeling down about it, I remind myself that he had speech before, so there's a chance he could speak again.



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17 Jun 2011, 5:49 pm

My son said "Bye-Bye" completely in context and waved his arm when he was 6 months old. Then didn't say much of anything until he was 2. At that point it was mostly echolalia. Gradually he started making sentences at about 4. He could read when he was 3.