Reply to Jubilee Shalom Duggar's Obituary

Forum Index » Entertainment and Pop Culture

Reply to "Jubilee Shalom Duggar's Obituary"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Regarding late talkers:

Take the book Late-Talking Children out of the library.  Late-talkers in large families are not uncommon.  Little ones often have an older "translator," so they do not have the same pressing need to refine oral communication, especially when they are always together, as the Duggars are.  Also, there are certain cognitive profiles (often correlated with exceptional intelligence in certain areas) that tend to late oral skills.

I have seen this extensively within my very large extended family.  There are lots of engineers and musicians, mathematicians and designers, and many talked very late.  My brother who had spina bifida occulta was a very late talker, but he had plenty of people who understood him, and he's a brilliant computer scientist and composer as an adult.  My own late talker is a chatterbox when the spirit moves him now, and he seems to be following in the path of his grandfather and his uncles through his love of math and design.

Observers may see neglect, but members of the family who actually KNOW the child may simply have patience and greater insight.  Observation and consultation and possibly intervention might be explored, but loving parents usually do what they think is best.  There is no way a heavily edited TV show gives an accurate developmental picture.

But for those looking for something negative to say, they will find it anywhere.  Even in the loss of a child, apparently.  Same tactic as the Westboro Baptist "Church," really--seizing on someome's tragedy to advance their own agenda.  Shame on you mean people.[/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