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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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  • I think the reason that we are being seen by a speech therapy assistant is because of the huge waiting lists in our area. I don't think our speech therapy assistant is qualified as a speech therapist or has understanding of autistic behaviour but as our son only had his official diagnosis last week he has been treated as a speech delayed child. We had been seeing a speech therapist roughly every month and she was supposed to be going to my son's nursery to observe him and make sure that his speech program was being implemented but we found out from one of the workers there that she hadn't been once!I think from our experience that language through play doesn't necessarily work with autistic children and there has to be a different technique although i'm yet to discover this myself!I do agree that speech therapy assistants should have a knowledge of autism and adjust their technique to suit a child with or without a diagnosis of autism and not just treat the child as you would a 'normal' child with speech delay.

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  • I think the reason that we are being seen by a speech therapy assistant is because of the huge waiting lists in our area. I don't think our speech therapy assistant is qualified as a speech therapist or has understanding of autistic behaviour but as our son only had his official diagnosis last week he has been treated as a speech delayed child. We had been seeing a speech therapist roughly every month and she was supposed to be going to my son's nursery to observe him and make sure that his speech program was being implemented but we found out from one of the workers there that she hadn't been once!I think from our experience that language through play doesn't necessarily work with autistic children and there has to be a different technique although i'm yet to discover this myself!I do agree that speech therapy assistants should have a knowledge of autism and adjust their technique to suit a child with or without a diagnosis of autism and not just treat the child as you would a 'normal' child with speech delay.

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