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[quote=Anonymous]My son is 5 and he's not very verbal. He did speech for a year when he was 3 for a stutter that seems to have mostly resolved itself. He's always been quite introverted and prefers video games and puzzles to playing with lots of friends. Although he does have a best friend at school and he plays relatively well when older kids are involved, he seems mostly uninterested in his own peers. Occasionally he's expressed that he gets nervous around people. I've been noticing that his answers to questions tend to be very short. For instance, today his teacher asked him for a safety rule and his response was simply "wear a mask". The other kids all went on long tangents about things like not opening doors for strangers, or being careful crossing the street, or not jumping on the bed. The teacher asked what he enjoys and he said "I like green and pizza" with no further elaboration. If I ask him how his day went, he usually only says "great!" The only long conversations he has involve video games or pokemon. He is usually quite polite and well-behaved (although he does have a silly side like when he does his baby voice), but I've noticed other kids his age will ask adults all sorts of questions, and boldly ask for things and he never does that (although he does ask me for things). His teacher told me she thinks he's gifted and it's true he's ahead in the sense that he's reading and doing math, but it seems like socially he's not quite like the other kids. They did speech evaluations last year in preschool and his evaluation went well, the therapist didn't note any areas of concern, but I'm wondering if I should be concerned? My husband thinks he's just a regular boy who doesn't have a lot to say. Anybody else have a boy like this? Should I take him back to speech to help him get over any anxiety?[/quote]

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