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ecki · Posted: October 08 2007, 6:25 AM Post subject: Is your child verbal?

A question for 5 and older, since by then I would think you'd be able to tell if your child will talk.

I suspect that with Kayla's autism she won't be verbal. But what about kids without other issues?

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Helen · Posted: October 08 2007, 7:03 AM Post subject:

I can't vote as Matt's only 4, but my friend's daughter, Grace, turned 9 this year. She has DS-ASD. Until she was 8 she had no words. Now she speaks in 3 word sentences .... so never say never.

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LeeJo · Posted: October 08 2007, 7:40 AM Post subject:

Alex's speech is very erratic, as is everything else with him. Some days he can say is 1 sentence "I want help" (usually said "uh dunt uhlp" in a low, grunty manner, with accompanying signs, only after very specific prompting "what do you want? SAY"), and say other words rather freely, other days he hardly utters a word. For him there are so many aspects coming into play. When he is swimming, or bouncing or involved in gross motor play I notice he will parrot me, quite a bit.

I do know a young boy who started talking around age 10, so nothing can be ruled out, but I'm not counting on him becoming really fluently verbal. Last year his speech therapist even sat me down and told me not to count on him ever really being fluent, but not to rule it out. It was at his IEP, the prior day I had found out that Ben has Hirschsprung's disease and needed surgery and I sobbed through the whole IEP.

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lespring · Posted: October 08 2007, 8:07 AM Post subject:

Angela talks incessantly.

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mom2nicole · Posted: October 08 2007, 2:34 PM Post subject:

Nicole talks non stop. She is now starting to talk in complete sentences. Before she would get her point across with 3 or 4 word sentences leaving out "the and or a " those kind of words but now she is putting them in there!!!!!!!!

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mackenziesmom · Posted: October 08 2007, 10:00 PM Post subject:

Mackenzie is verbal. She just turned 5 and her speech has always been one of her stronger areas. She speaks on average 4-5 word sentences. Right now her speech isn't great because she needs tubes again. She has tons of words and can sing a lot of songs. Not all of her words are very clear to other people.

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Rasbora · Posted: October 09 2007, 8:17 AM Post subject:

AJ is pretty good his words. Just this morning he told me stop pushing me mom, and all I did was put some lotion on his face, maybe bit rough for his taste? geesh Rolling Eyes

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kris10z · Posted: October 09 2007, 8:55 AM Post subject:

No words here. I dream of the day that I can hear Momma.

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Colin is really not verbal accept for "bye" I am now getting a consisten sound for yes....but not somehting anyone would recognize.

But his receptive skills are exceptional

Melea is very verbal! And talks up a lot and repeats...but is behind most other peers with DS in her age range at our district besides COlin

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Hannah's mom · Posted: October 09 2007, 8:26 PM Post subject:

Hannah talks all the time but has a real hard time with her articulation. I have a friend who's ten year old son has DS and ASD. He never uttered a word until two months ago. He has started trying to speak. You can tell he loves his PCA, her name is Alissa and he ha started calling her "ya ya". There is always hope.

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Georgianna · Posted: October 16 2007, 6:10 PM Post subject:

Renee talks nonstop. We don't always understand what she is saying but she is usually very able to get her point across and talks in fairly long sentences.

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Jenny · Posted: October 17 2007, 2:21 PM Post subject:

I said no but getting there. Max says a few words. but not 2 together. He has very limited vocabulary.

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acornnurturer · Posted: October 20 2007, 8:55 PM Post subject:

Yes, my daughter with DS Katie, who is 9 talks all the time--especially to herself in the bathroom. She didn't say much (1-3 words) until she was 5 so we taught her sign language. Our early intervention team kept trying and trying with the speech but I could see that Katie just wasn't interested and she was just getting frustrated. So we quit EI and did our own thing until Kindergarten. Our whole family learned sign language and we used it while speaking. Katie pretty much just signed. Her 6 year old brother served as her interpreter whenever we had a babysitter over. I signed many of Katie's books to her while reading. Then at 5 she just wanted to talk. We did 1 year of private speech therapy and she hasn't shut up since. LOL

Our experience with our daughter has taught us that persistence and consistency is certainly a good thing for her, but being sensitive to her boundaries on what she wants to learn is also important. If Katie is not ready to learn something or doesn't want to, you can work all day with her and NOTHING is going to change. It's like beating a dead horse. But, when she's ready to learn she will stay on task until she masters it. I've learned to respect her inner time table about when she's ready to learn certain things. Hope that helps.

amante · Posted: October 21 2007, 8:18 AM Post subject:

I voted no, but getting there. Peter can say Mama, Dada and a few other words but very few words people outside the family can understand. He signs and we have a communication book with Mayer-Johnson symbols.

He is getting better and I am sure that when he starts talking, we will not be able to shut him up!
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momofrussell · Posted: October 21 2007, 9:31 AM Post subject:

Ecki.. was thinking about this thread after seeing your post of Kayla and all the babbling she does. THAT IS being verbal in my book! I know you are talking about "words" but truly, Kayla is verbal. Wink

We call that "hearing your normal voice" around here because we don't even get that or any kinds of normal voice sounds from Russell. Russell grunts and does throaty stuff. But no babbling and no "normal voice" sounds. Sad

I think with Kayla babbling you already have a good foundation to get some words from her later!

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AtlantaDJ · Posted: October 21 2007, 1:03 PM Post subject:

Myles has lots of words that everyone can understand and lots of word approximations that many people can understand.

He talks a lot but a lot of it is parroting. He does find a way to get his point across.

I think he gets a lot of it from acting. He acts out most of his favorite movies.

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mollysmomma · Posted: November 10 2007, 12:07 PM Post subject: no...but working on it.

molly babbles constantly...she's lost more words than she currently has.

the words she uses...are words of things that are important to her...

she calls me 'bomb'

she can articulate 'daddy' perfectly

says 'bill' 'babe' (gabe) shauna...

'sarge' & 'gager' *yeager* and sull (diesel)...her dogs

she's trying new syllables...lucifer has always been
'cat'...now she calls him 'bu-ber'

ice cream

pickle

baby

chips...and and her new phrase

'french fries? juice?? (spoken everytime we
see the double arches)

I'm still waiting to hear "i love you" and have
worked on it every nite for 7 years.

I'm still waiting for her to tell me where
it hurts...and what happened. THAT is
probable THE most frustrating part of the
entire 'enhancement"...having to guess
in an emergency.

Now, another question to the poll....

of the 61% who answered yes??? how
many of them have close-in-age siblings.

I have a theory about that being a HUGE
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naomid · Posted: November 11 2007, 4:40 AM Post subject: Re: no...but working on it.

mollysmomma wrote:

Now, another question to the poll....

of the 61% who answered yes??? how
many of them have close-in-age siblings.

I have a theory about that being a HUGE
asset!

I didn't respond to the poll because Callum isn't 5 until March, but yes he's verbal and yes he has a sibling close in age (Kieran is 17 months younger). Callum has a large vocabulary and can put together 3 word sentences. He uses speech as his main form of coimmunication with the addition of some signs when he needs emphasis or we don't quite understand the word he is using.

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AtlantaDJ · Posted: November 11 2007, 10:26 AM Post subject:

Wow, just since my last post Myles has been using a lot more words.

In fact he was just singing the Scooby Doo song.
ZOIKS! That's WAY cool

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mackenziesmom · Posted: November 12 2007, 4:20 PM Post subject:

I voted yes. Mackenzie is 5 and has hundreds of words and usually speaks in short sentences. She doesn't have any close in age siblings the next youngest is almost 15 years older than her. I do think that having a close in age sibling would really help speech though.

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KT's Mom · Posted: December 28 2007, 12:13 PM Post subject:

My daughter Katie will be 6 in March and she talks constantly. We have been told by family and friends that her speech is getting clearer, it's hard for us to tell as we hear her all the time and I have "mommy ears".

She just got her 6th set of tubes in her ears a few weeks ago and that made a huge difference.

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LovelyKennedy · Posted: December 28 2007, 12:48 PM Post subject:

Kennedy is very verbal these days! She puts 4-5 word sentences together. Her articulation has gotten much much better over the past 6 months. She has 2 siblings very close in age and I think this has helped her speech immensely. We are all so very proud of her and her teacher an therapists are so very impressed.

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Barbara · Posted: December 29 2007, 10:30 PM Post subject:

I voted yes for Henry (age 5), though I wish there had been categories for levels of "yesness". He is talking gobs more than 1 year ago, but I still wouldn't label him a big talker and his speech is still his weakest skill. He generally doesn't have much to say, but when he does, he seems to be using short sentences. IE, he doesn't call me by name, but just the other day I was laying on the couch with a blanket over my head and I heard him walk up to me and say clear as day " Mommy, it's me." And his favorites words over the past couple of weeks that he uses frequently and in the right context is Whoa (meaning Wow) and Whoops. And he sings some songs, but someone else might not recognize what he is singing, but we figure it out. And he says all of the names of the days of the week in order and all of the one and two syllable month names. So his vocabulary has greatly expanded. In comparison to other kids, Henry still is fairly quiet.

kayzac · Posted: December 30 2007, 4:54 PM Post subject:

I voted NO for Katie but she has the "D" sound as dadadadada, but that's it, as Kristen said I can't wait for the day when I hear Mama Sad

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lespring · Posted: December 30 2007, 5:29 PM Post subject:

Angela's next closest sibling is 8 years older.

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hannahsmommy · Posted: January 03 2008, 9:46 AM Post subject:

HAnnah is quite the chatter box. It is figuring out what she is saying that is the hard part, but that gets better everyday. I think many times she is just talking so darn fast we miss alot of it. HAnnah will be six on sunday and has no other siblings.

jelanismom · Posted: January 27 2008, 2:49 PM Post subject:

Jelani is in that satge of two words formed but only prefers one word to ask for something...milk, go, bath, elmo...he's not conversing yet. In school he has speech therapy 2x wk for 40min. I'm trying to stay in contact with his ST. I believe because of the major delays and challenges our kids have with speech, that I need to be proactive of course, and as patient as I can be because as alot of our children's abilities... this too will come in time. I think a root of most of Jelani's frustrations when he acts up in class and at home is because of his lack of verbal skills. I'm researching myself and looking for the best ways to advance his verbal progress here at home and keeping close tabs on his Speech Therapists teaching methods in school so I can follow-up at home.

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