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Daughter can speak but refuses

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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

Parents

  • Do not put pressure on your daughter to speak - making an issue of this could make it much worse. My son has Selective Mutism - I’m not sure if you’ve heard of that? I would do some research about it to see if your daughter’situation might connect to this. 
    I’m sure though that a very gentle, no pressure approach would be a good idea while you try to work out what’s happening. 

    good luck x

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  • Do not put pressure on your daughter to speak - making an issue of this could make it much worse. My son has Selective Mutism - I’m not sure if you’ve heard of that? I would do some research about it to see if your daughter’situation might connect to this. 
    I’m sure though that a very gentle, no pressure approach would be a good idea while you try to work out what’s happening. 

    good luck x

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  • in reply to Kate Kestrel

    Yer we would never pressure her, we say thinks like are you thirsty, and repeat thirsty showing her the cup or hungry and showing her the food in the hope she realizes that that word goes to that object but that's about it, she sometimes responds but it's very rare. I have heard about it, I was kind of leaving everything till she got diagnosed in the hopes they would give us some more insight but she was diagnosed last week and they didn't tell us much so that's why I decided to reach out so we can try and work out a plan with nursury on best way to move forward x