late talkers?

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hes actually not that into computers, hes only just started wanting to look at my ipad or touch the screen in anyway. ive tried lots of times to get him to use it, as i thought maybe those toddler games woukd help him learn words but he wasnt having part of that. I wonder now if perhaps that is him wanting to be stubborn or control the situation

bu a device to speak for him is scertainot something im open to if he doesnt talk soon, i really desparately want him to speak, but more than that i think id like for him to communicate his wants and likes to me

Being put under too much pressure makes it worse. But then again I've been pushed plenty of times during speech therapy. I think what's helped the most is feeling understood and positive support. I mean even if my parents didn't always understand, they acted understanding.



That's a good question because in my case at least it's a combination of classic autism, selective mutism and dyspraxia (apraxia of speech). The autism, which was more severe when I was little, kept me from forming language skills, and then the dyspraxia makes it physically difficult to speak, which all leads to me not wanting to talk much.

thank you for sharing that with me! do you type to talk to your parents, teachers, peers etc? donthey just then read it and respond verbally to you? or do you have a device that speaks what ypu type?

I have both. But rarely use the voice deal. Which I can also do on my phone. The joke is most people, especially teens do most of their talking through texting anyways. Ans lots of times I use hand gestures.

I use an electronic device, be it a cellphone, laptop or whatever, if it has a keypad, I'm set. The worse thing is people trying to force you to talk when you physically cannot and getting mad when you don't "comply." Moderate autism and mild brain damage kinda makes it not possible to adequately verbalize. I remember spending a half hour trying to answer the question"what do you enjoy?" no matter how hard I tried to enunciate, all I could manage was "uddzull." I finally grabbed my phone and showed them a pic of a castle, which was what I was trying to say.

At almost 4 years old, my speech was only one word responses. Babbling was limited to start with. I repeated what my mom told me say immediately (otherwise I wouldn't by myself) once I could.

I didn't speak a single word until I was 3, I only spoke in random sounds

I had a similar story, only i could talk. The doctors expected me to have delayed speech but it was normal. But i did have a history of chronic ear infections and needed tubes inserted as well. I think there was a 70% drop in my hearing or something. Luckily i was very young and everything turned out ok.