Reply to Results of 14 month old's evaluation

Forum Index » Kids With Special Needs and Disabilities

Reply to "Results of 14 month old's evaluation - any feedback appreciated"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Thank you PPs for the recommendation to get on Dr. Shapiro's waitlist.  I will do that right away.

13:18, the specific concerns that led me to seek the evaluation with Infants and Toddlers were DS's issues in the area of communication.  Expressive (verbal and gestures) and receptive communication both seemed to me to be delayed.  At a little over 14 months now, he still does not point at things, does not shake his head no, does not wave goodbye (he has done so only a few times with a lot of prompting, but I prompt and example every day).  His only real gesture, as far as I can tell, is reaching for things.  In terms of verbal communication, his only words are dada and mama, and they are still often directed at things other than DH and me; though he babbles a lot, with intonation, and he will imitate some sounds we make.  He has very little receptive language.  He understands "no", he knows his name, and he seems to respond to the specific way that I refer to our cats; but he does not have any response to words we use multiple times per day, like book, bottle, bath, etc.  He does not look at the door when you say "bye-bye" to him.  He does not look for DH when I say something about "dada".  He does seem to respond to a few commands if I use gestures with them ("sit down" and "close the lid" are the two that I can think of), but he does not have any response at all when I say something like "bring the book".

I've had some concerns about other things too - one being that he will share in experiences with us if we initiate them, but HE doesn't initiate sharing an experience with us (doesn't bring us things or hand us things or try to show us things).  These things also seem like communication issues to me in a way, but maybe they're more social issues or something else; I don't really know.  There are other things too (things he doesn't do that it seems he should, like trying to stack cups or big blocks, sort shapes, put things in a container - he doesn't do any of those, doesn't seem to have any interest in trying, even when I try to show him), but all the various aspects of communication have been what have stood out to me the most.[/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