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[quote=Anonymous]For a kid without words, Hanen's More Than Words book is even better than the other book. It's a great resource. Definintely worth the investment.

2.5 is too soon to be sure. My kid had 2 words at 2.5. Now at 5 he doesn't stop talking!!

But at 2.5 I was mentally getting ready for a nonverbal kid. We were doing all-out PECS. It didn't stop him from talking -- it didn't hurt at all. In fact, we still use visual aids everywhere all the time. I say that my kid's first language is pictures, and his second language is words. More Than Words has a great chapter on how to do visual aids.

Every kid is different, but the breakthrough for my child was three things: 
1. his dentist recommended a frenectomy. Turns out kiddo couldn't move his tongue. 
2. a special kind of ABA therapy called Verbal Behavior. I was totally amazed at how many sounds they could elicit by offering him a bit of cookie.
3. a special kind of speech therapy called PROMPT. The speech therapist taught him with physical cues, how to make sounds. Also, she strengthened his weak oral muscles. We still do this as he has lots of articulation issues.

But going back to the family issue. Everyone time someone said, "does he have new words?" I would say "No, but he is learning the meanings of more pictures." And then I would give them the task of understanding how to communicate with him with pictures, from photos to more symbolic ones (like a picture for a song), which even they have to learn. I kept funneling them to the visual stuff. Soon they weren't bugging me because they were too busy communicating directly with him with PECS!
 
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