DS is 3 and 6 months. Not conversational yet. Does it get better? BDTD?
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Currently doing therapies. In regular PS and special ed PS 1/2 day. DS is verbal can comment/request answer yes/no, choices and other concrete questions but doesn’t have conversations. Doesn’t tell me what he did in the day. Has trouble answering “what did you do today?” It’s hit or miss and usually just “I went to school”. No elaboration. Even when I ask differently. It seems social pragmátics part is what’s missing. He makes jokes, gets my jokes when I say something like that’s a pig! When pointing at a monkey for example and corrects me “nooo that’s a pig!”
Preschool says he follows directions fine but wanders off at circle time and does better when sitting on teachers lap or is right there to listen. That he is social imitates friends and plays with others well. I see the same at home. Special ed school says he doesn’t follow 1 step directions or imitate peers. It sure why the discrepancy. We all agree he has trouble answering more abstract or past event questions and he isn’t conversational. I’ve seen a lot of progress from age 3 but I would have thought conversations would already be happening. Anyone BTDT? Does it get better? |
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| *that’s I am not sure why there is a discrepancy |
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Have you had your child's receptive language tested? That is key. My child had a severe receptive language disorder. He could not even do as much as your son at that age. |
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| DS just started speaking his first words at that age. He was conversational by 5 years old. He was caught up by Kindergarten and was in the highest reading group. And he was never in speech therapy. I know others who have had their child in therapies since 2 and still arent speaking well in 1st grade. Varies so much. Sorry. |
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How is he now? What helped? |
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| Even fairly talkative three and a half year olds are not necessarily “conversational”. Some kids are introverts too |
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It’s not an introverted issue. He is super outgoing and social. He tried to initiate conversations but doesn’t know how. |
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ANd again: Where does his receptive language test at? |
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| Yes, but it didn't start getting better starting till 5. By 7, much better. Child is doing great. Lots of speech therapy, good preschools, activities, patience and love. |
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| OP here. Missed that question. We did receptive language testing at 3 he tested at 2 and 3 months and expressive 2 years 7mo. So about 9 months behind. ST wants to retest soon. |
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So glad DC is doing great now. Did kiddo have a dx? Any therapies you recommend? |
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We did a lot of private speech therapy and U of MD LEAP then a small private from k-2nd. My child would've been lost in public early on and would not have been able to do the curriculum as its mainly oral and we needed oral and visual. Language disorder. For us, I have no idea if the speech therapy helped. I saw ST as giving my child the tools to talk when they were ready but you cannot for a child to talk. For us, some of it was just time. Strong academics helped too. I had an early reader who loves learning so that made things easier. We also did things like swim and gymnastics at that age. Worked a lot at home on things like writing (but that didn't come till about age 5). A lot of our kids struggle greatly at that age and are doing great years later. |
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That's pretty good - behind but not terrible. I think with receptive, time is one of the big factors. We were also told things like IQ made a difference in outcome and if child had other things like LD. |
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| odd that expressive was higher |
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No its not, but testing isn't always easy with kids with receptive language. |