Charlie talking
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marydellRather than try to do a whole developmental roundup, I'm going to do small ones on one thing at a time, because otherwise I'll never get around to it, and I do want this blog to be useful to parents of other kids with challenges similar to Charlie's.
So, he's significantly delayed on speech, but the docs think it's a "soft delay" (one that should eventually resolve itself) brought on by temporary hearing troubles and over-dependence on his pacifier. Also he stayed in the infant room at day care a lot longer than he would have if he had been walking on the expected (by day care) schedule. Now that he's in the toddler room surrounded by talkers, he's got about 6 words that he uses regularly, at least when prompted, and 15 or so that we hear from time to time. Plus a lot of babbling. We blew bubbles out in the yard yesterday and he said "bubble bubble bubble!" over and over, and he understands that "bubble" and "ba-ba" are different words. He also understands complex sentences, like "can you put the clothes back in the drawer now?" and "I want you to come over here and take your medicine without a fuss...one....two...three...ok, now we do this the hard way..." He hasn't said any sentences, even short ones, consistently but he's making progress. We're up in the air about speech therapy--we'll see how he does over the next couple of weeks. He's making good progress, finally, but he's frustrated a lot of the time and can be aggressive (particularly with Mommy, boo), and having almost no words can't be helping.
We made a little video of him showing off his words. He has not seen the Simpsons, by the way, but has picked up a bit of its vocabulary from us, because we are Simpsons nuts.
Video:
So, he's significantly delayed on speech, but the docs think it's a "soft delay" (one that should eventually resolve itself) brought on by temporary hearing troubles and over-dependence on his pacifier. Also he stayed in the infant room at day care a lot longer than he would have if he had been walking on the expected (by day care) schedule. Now that he's in the toddler room surrounded by talkers, he's got about 6 words that he uses regularly, at least when prompted, and 15 or so that we hear from time to time. Plus a lot of babbling. We blew bubbles out in the yard yesterday and he said "bubble bubble bubble!" over and over, and he understands that "bubble" and "ba-ba" are different words. He also understands complex sentences, like "can you put the clothes back in the drawer now?" and "I want you to come over here and take your medicine without a fuss...one....two...three...ok, now we do this the hard way..." He hasn't said any sentences, even short ones, consistently but he's making progress. We're up in the air about speech therapy--we'll see how he does over the next couple of weeks. He's making good progress, finally, but he's frustrated a lot of the time and can be aggressive (particularly with Mommy, boo), and having almost no words can't be helping.
We made a little video of him showing off his words. He has not seen the Simpsons, by the way, but has picked up a bit of its vocabulary from us, because we are Simpsons nuts.
Video:
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Date: 2010-05-30 01:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-30 01:58 am (UTC)I wouldn't be surprised if he catches up fast now.
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Date: 2010-05-30 04:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-30 02:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-30 03:36 pm (UTC)Bubba was delayed a bit with speech because he wasn't in any childcare, but home with me, and me? Well, I just anticipated his EVERY LITTLE NEED without waiting for him to ask. Doctor figured it out about six minutes into our visit about my concerns as to why he only said "OK," "uh-oh," "No," and "Nom nums." Within like 12 weeks after that he was talking in complete sentences. "Would you like to play legos, Mommy?" and "I don't like meat. No meat, please," and "More noodles, please Mommy, more noodles and more butter." Oh, and "He shoots, he scores!!!"
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Date: 2010-06-01 03:13 pm (UTC)I know that for Monkey, his speech delay was very frustrating. He would do his best to communicate, and when it just wasn't working, he'd become very upset and stop trying. Which was just heartbreaking, to know that there was something he wanted or needed, that he needed help with, and just not be able to figure it out, and then watch him turn inwards, upset, frustrated... not being understood was very hurtful to him. Poor thing. He got tubes in his ears and speech therapy, and now there is very little that he says that is misunderstood by those closest to him. Strangers and people who haven't spent time with him will still miss what he says sometimes, mainly because his particular speech issue is with some of the hard consonants and the beginning of words...
From the video, it looks like Charlie doesn't have any problem making the sounds, and that he seems to understand quite a lot of speech. You may want to do speech therapy to help him catch up, but he will most likely catch up on his own. In the meanwhile, he'll probably experience frustration and annoyance when people don't obey his commands, but then, all kids experience frustration and annoyance when adults don't obey. :P
In other words, Yay Charlie!!! I love how he claps, btw. Too cute. And he has an awesome laugh. :)
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Date: 2010-06-04 08:49 pm (UTC)Hugs,
Carla
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Date: 2010-07-02 06:34 pm (UTC)