Were you a late talker?

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Were you (or your child) a late talker?

When did you begin to talk and when did you catch up?

Do most of late talkers in the milder end of the spectrum eventually catch up or there are "residuals" issues in language?

I don't know if I am in the spectrum, but my father and I both started taking very short sentences around 3 but talking like the peers (and talking to strangers) by around 7 (no therapies in those days). Now I speak three languages, but not very social.

Speech seems to be another one of those inconsistent autism things. It also depends on how well you adapt, or if you do. I spoke on time developmentally, no stammering/stuttering or Tourette's or other autism related speech issues - until I recently had some voice problems and started speech therapy, to discover the breathing problems doctors scoured my lungs for a cause of when I was a child is actually due an atypical presentation of a severe autism-related speech disorder that I apparently adapted around. Wild.

Possibly. I did have to have speech therapy when I was young.

The notes from the speech therapist in my medical records said that I had a rather advanced vocabulary, but because my speech wasn't too good, I was trying to say advanced things, but couldn't.

Yeah. Four and a half or so. My nephew was similar too.

I had quite a bit of trouble learning to read and write in the first couple of grades also, but arduous work by my mother got it down.

I caught up. I'm pretty sure my nephew has caught up too.

Yes. I was - about 5 years old, I think - and started speaking just before I was due to start infants school. Any my son is similar too. Both of us developed speech and, in fact, I'd say, have very good vocabularies/interests in language. We both have ASD diagnoses (mine only a couple of years ago - due to similarities in experience, although I am fortunate in it not having got in the way of a career, etc.) I can really empathise with your situation - it is difficult as a parent, and you just have to stay in there. I wish I knew the answers, but keep posting here, it does help now and again get some external perspective.

I was. I don't think I spoke at all until I was 3 years old, and my parents say I didn't talk "much" until I was 4 and a half. Oddly, I can recall being able to read all by myself at 5 and a half, and my parents say I was able to read even before that. When I was first diagnosed HFA/AS at 6 years old, apparently my vocabulary was that of someone twice my age, and I already had a 5th grade reading level.

Isn't it funny how things work out sometimes?

I couldn't pronounce my name until puberty or so but not sure if this is asperger related (bloody RRRrrrrrrr! lucky I'm not from the french part of this country). Never talked much so really don't know.
Reading was never a problem (until teachers started asking too many book reviews but that is more attitude related)

I was average. I said my first word at age 13 months. Well, apparently I have two first words first said in the same week, which was ''Mummy'' and ''Teddy'', but my parents can't remember which was said first. My parents didn't have any concerns with my speech development. I was average in all typical development between birth and 4 years. It was when I started school I suddenly displayed completely odd behaviour what shocked my parents and grabbed the attention from teachers. Before then, I was a typical toddler.

I'm still not sure to this day what went wrong in the 6-week summer break between the day I left preschool and the day I started school.

My parents say I talked alittle later but I cought up quickly & am very good verbally