Another question for once nonverbals. ;)

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When you were nonverbal, were you able to make other noises that could be considered close to speech?

Ex: Sighing, Tsking ( 'Tsk, Tsk Tsk!'), Sound affects (particularly 'fffffiiiiiishing' noises), ETC.

i growled, sometimes it seemed like i would make the noises to sound out words ddddd but it wasnt reference to anything, thats about it

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When my son was nonverbal he made sounds that were like a language he created on his own. He started talking a year ago. But the other day when he got all stressed out about a toy not working, he inserted in his speech some of those sounds. Actually, it is very cute.

Yes I made my own speech all the time before I could talk. But sadly no one understood me except for my parents. I had to learn some sign language but I forgot it unfortunately because I stopped using it when I started speaking. I don't even remember using it either.

I also hurt other people my mother told me because it was how I expressed myself. But at home I was fine because my parents understood me.

No.

All I heard from my parents is that I mumbled and threw tantrums and cried a lot until I was able to express anything (I spoke my first words at 4 but didn't develop any conversational skills until I was 6). My son said a few words here and there at 2, he is 4.5 now and speaks quite a bit but is still behind. It will catch up though... he is progressing and will probably end up with a diagnosis of AS because even though his speech is behind, he still had it at a young age.... he still echos sometimes but a lot less than he did at 3. But before he spoke enough to express his thoughts and needs.. he also threw tantrums.. thank goodness he only does that on a rare occasion now (if he is missing one of his favorite toys he sometimes does)

My mom always told me of how i used to speak german gibberish or something and I would get angry when they didnt undestand me she always thought it was funny.. in hindsight, im mad that they didnt look into why this might be.

Well, of course all of us have been nonverbal at some point of our lives .

Well, I started speaking at about age one, but through to age 3 used echolalia, and my speech has always been atypical and, hmm, not coming so easy to me as most people, requiring more energy.

When I was young, about 4 or 5, I learned a lot of sign language and supplemented my speech with this (interesting that, without understanding or knowing that I was autistic or had difficulty with speech, that I sought out a means to augment my communication). At this time though, and through especially to about age 10, I would frequently go into strings of sound like gibberish, called it "my own language".

My most recent specific memory of doing this was when we were in the car going back home and I'd just got this big book called Natural Earth Living Earth and an astronomy-themed bookmark from Borders, and we were in the car going home and it was about 8 o'clock p.m. and all the street lights and everything were too bright and I went into strings of speech-like sounds. I did stuff like that when I was a toddler too, but also later when I would be stressed or couldn't find words or whatever.

I've worked with a lot of nonverbal kids, and it seems to vary about how much they vocalize. Some kids vocalized a lot and even produced a lot of speech-like sounds, and some others only made one or two sounds, but all of them did produce sounds sometimes. The ones who only made one or two sounds usually did it either when extremely upset or very happy. For example, one kid would say "mmm...mmm" when he was happy, and another would say "eee...eee....eeee!" when he was upset. Other kids might produce a whole range of sounds, including clicks, whistles, etc.

Some of my favorite sounds were sequences that they would repeat, like "tika tika tika tika" or "i-TA-ti-ga i-TA-ti-ga" or "DEE-da DEE-da DEE-da." Some of the kids really liked being imitated, so I would repeat these sounds back to them.