Reply to Friends daughter has a speech delay and my kids ask questions to the mom

Forum Index » General Parenting Discussion

Reply to "Friends daughter has a speech delay and my kids ask questions to the mom "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My good friends daughter is about to turn 3. The child has a pretty significant speech delay, but my friend hasn’t sought out early intervention and knows “she’ll speak eventually”. The child just started stringing words together into sentences and most of it is unintelligible. Most of them when we visit (monthly or so) she is silent the whole time.

I don’t talk to my friend about this and she doesn’t ask my advice.

My question is about my OWN kids, who are 3 and 5. We visit every so often, but my kids aren’t sure how to communicate with her. I am a huge advocate for diversity, communicating with different kids, etc. When we visit, I encourage them to play with the child and talk and play, but they’ll say (as kids do) “but she doesn’t talk!” I guide them to her mom, or give examples on how she communicates, and remind them that she does understand and to include her.

It’s awkward. Help. [/quote]

[b]Most of your first paragraph wouldn’t matter if you could help your kids be sensitive to the fact that not all kids communicate the same way[/b]. I have a friend with a child with selective mutism, and although he can talk, he doesn’t. One of my very good friends in early childhood was hearing imparted. We got along just fine.

Find things they can do without talking. They can “talk and play” but friends child may not be able to, so they can try other things, or find activities where there’s not so much talk. Give examples of things they can do, like charades, card games, drawing, sliding down a slide, etc.

Encourage your kids to find ways to talk, like charades or drawing, or pointing at pictures. You understood your kids long before they had words.. how did you do it? [/quote]

OP here and I mentioned that this is really important to me. We have friends who have a child with DS, and a neighbor with CP. They're still kids, though, and can't help saying "But she isn't talking", especially my own 3 year old. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics