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Learning to talk

Michmac

Hi, my 2.7yr old boy has just been diagnosed with autism and is not speaking yet. We are trying to motivate him to communicate and I was wondering if you could share some experiences of your own regarding getting your child to say their first words. My boy babbles a lot and I think the docs are hopeful he will speak. It would be great to hear from people with similar problems and let me know what their outcomes were :-)

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  • Hi - thanks for getting back to me and your advice is greatly appreciated. We have a video called 'Sooki and Finn' and its a speech and language dvd and we try in engage him in that and point out the objects to him, ie ball, brush etc. He seems to watch and will babble and say 'aaahh' but I don't know if it is making sense to him. We also talk him through getting him ready in the morning and try to interact with him through drawing, playing with his fire truck etc. I just feel helpless as I don't know if we are helping him. He has now been appointed and Home Visiting Teacher (one hour per week) and a speech and language teacher, which I'm thinking will be for the same time. Is this enough, to be honest I don't think so :-(. I will post a new link about assisted nurseries and ask people how they managed to get into them.... just feel he is getting lost in the system and all we are doing is waiting.

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  • Hi - thanks for getting back to me and your advice is greatly appreciated. We have a video called 'Sooki and Finn' and its a speech and language dvd and we try in engage him in that and point out the objects to him, ie ball, brush etc. He seems to watch and will babble and say 'aaahh' but I don't know if it is making sense to him. We also talk him through getting him ready in the morning and try to interact with him through drawing, playing with his fire truck etc. I just feel helpless as I don't know if we are helping him. He has now been appointed and Home Visiting Teacher (one hour per week) and a speech and language teacher, which I'm thinking will be for the same time. Is this enough, to be honest I don't think so :-(. I will post a new link about assisted nurseries and ask people how they managed to get into them.... just feel he is getting lost in the system and all we are doing is waiting.

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