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Posted by WorriedMom Thanks in advance for the ideas! Hope I'm allowed to post here :) A worried mom
on 5/4/2004, 12:26 am
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I have a 3 year old son in speech therapy. He talks very little, 8 months of therapy. I've tried flash cards, we read constantly (he loves books & being read to), I try to encourage him to talk, but he only talks on HIS terms. He just started putting 2-3 words together. At his evaluation at 2.5 yrs old, he was at a 15 month level. He attends therapy twice a week, for 30 minute sessions. We don't go into the therapy room with him, and his therapist doesn't give us any ideas of things to do with him at home. If we try to have a conversation with him, he doesn't answer our questions or even respond to us more than an "no" or "yes" most of the time--if we even get that, sometimes just a blank stare. If he wants something, like milk, he'll tell us, but otherwise, we hardly hear anything from him. He actually just told me "I love you" last week for the first time, and that was repetitive and not on his own. He has no other problems, just a speech delay (which I've been told is unusual). He eats anything and can blow whistles, suck straws, etc... so he has good oral control. He just chooses not to talk. Do you have any ideas/websites that I can use as a resource to work with him AT home to help encourage him to talk more? Our therapist has made him progress, but I think he'd progress more if she'd give us examples of things to do with him at home. I wasn't really that worried over my son, concerned yes but not extremely worried, but I have a 17 month old also, and he is is talking more than his older brother now. He is a chatterbox, so it's weird seeing him talk so much and our 3 yr old hardly saying anything at all. At 2 yrs, he had less than 10 words. At 3 yrs, he probably has about 50 words he says all together. Oh, and his hearing is okay. It's been tested twice.
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