Daughter can speak but refuses

Hello, I was wondering is anyone was in the same boat and able to offer tips. My 3 year old daughter has a very wide range of words, much more than the average 3 year old and she can use them in play and singing and pointing out things such as animals and colour or what have you but she will not use them to communicate with us. She still won't say drink please, I'm thirsty/ hungry, I need a wee or even hello or good bye. The nursery have said about flash cards for her to show us what she wants but because she knows the words and can use them if made to I feel it won't help her to move forward. She has started on the odd occasion saying wee wee or thirsty so I want to try and carry on getting her to use them words but I don't know the best way to do this as don't want to stress her out by making her say them. Any advice would be great thank you

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  • I have looked into it abit but doesn't seem to fit, the autism assement people said that she has the social autism or something to them words and that it will just come and not to pressure her which we have never done anyways, it doesn't seem related to anxiety but then again that's not really something you can see from the outside so maybe the reason.

    Thank you I will do a bit more research into this