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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What will help her is growing old enough to develop language skills so that she can more clearly communicate her needs and, hopefully, have most of them met.
Try spending the day getting by with the vocabulary of a child who’s barely two, with other people making decisions about pretty much everything you do.  Let me know how it goes. This is part of being two.  If she only does this with you — perhaps her most reliable caregiver? — it’s a good time to widen her world with play groups, baby sitters, pre-school — chances to enrich her experiences, provide a wider variety of adults and peers, while giving you a break. Win-win.  As she gets closer to 3 and her language skills improve, things should quickly get better. Talk with your pediatrician and other parents who have experience with teaching toddlers sign language. My understanding is that it helps many kids — and families— quite a lot when the kids are at an age when what the feelings and thoughts that they want to express far exceed their ability to do so with spoken language. [/quote]

She is fully verbal and has spoken in grammatically correct sentences since about 20 months. She has the vocabulary of a grade schooler. Not bragging because obviously we have other massive deficits and problems. Just saying that inability to communicate is not the issue. We know EXACTLY what she wants and is feeling.[/quote]
Look up the lady who writes the blog about her extraordinarily gifted son (something about raising Poppies). He sounds identical to your daughter. She said he cried nonstop as a baby, the only way he would pause crying was when the vacuum cleaner ran (she kept him in a sling and carried him around, vacuuming) and when she read him books. Your daughter might be profoundly high IQ.[/quote]

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