2.5 years old boy only babbles
Jul 10, 2020 10:46:05 GMT 9
Post by Nga Nguyen on Jul 10, 2020 10:46:05 GMT 9
Hi everyone! First time in this forum. š I need a place to talk to people to get my stress out. Iām very grateful if someone went through my situation and can share their successful stories. Iām trying to keep my hope up.
I moved to the US in 2017 with my husband. I speak Vietnamese, and my husband speaks English (he is Caucasian). Our son will turn 2.5 years old next month. So my son is only babbling, no real words yet. Only my husband can ask him to say āupā. But my son doesnāt use āupā purposely. Usually when he wants something, he points and grunts. He shakes his head if there is something he doesnāt want. He screams and yells when he gets upset. He does wave but only to my husband and his stuffed animals. He will bring stuff to me and looks at me like āWhatās this?ā. I can understand him very well (I guess because Iām his mother). He understands Vietnamese very well and now English a bit better since my husband works from home.
We have started the early intervention service after his 2nd birthday. They werenāt able to find any SLP in my area, then the corona virus came, so we agreed to do video call sessions weekly for 1 hour. Also, he has had child development therapy twice a month. He is not good at social skills and communication skills according to the evaluation results. When he meets strangers, he just stares at them, no matter what they ask him to do, he wonāt do it. We had trouble doing the evaluation for early intervention services. But he started warming up when there was 5-10 minutes left in the evaluation. We also did parent-toddler program once a week for 2 hours until March. It helped him feel more comfortable with people he doesn't know yet. He is happy with his grandparents now.
My son is kind of a late bloomer. He started playing with his 6m+ toys when he was around 20 months old, like stacking rings. He is good at building and doing puzzles. He completed the 12 pieces puzzles when he was 27 months old. He always loves cars and trucks, opening doors, cabinetsā¦and he loves putting things in the shelves, re-organizing my kitchen stuff. He also likes opening the drawer then putting his toys behind the drawer to see them drop. Then he opens the cabinet next to the drawer and picks the toys up.
So with the speech therapist, at the beginning we tried to repeat one word with pausing, doing signs, and making animal sounds. It didnāt seem to work. He did do signs (āmoreā and āall doneā sign) but only after I said those words. He doesnāt mimic animal sounds. He did imitate us but not only when things interest him. He only made dogs, butterflies, horse feet, and monkey sounds. What we have been doing for the last 3 weeks is called PECS (picture exchange communication). It makes more sense than signs to him I guess. The goal is to create opportunities for him to REQUEST for something. But the problem is when he wants something, he still points. We succeeded only a few times that he actually came to me with the phone picture or smoothie picture and asking for my phone and a smoothie.
So he is almost 2.5 and he only babbles (he is mixing different sounds when babbling). We hear no words from him. I am starting to get nervous. How to get him to talk, everyone? We read, we sing in both languages. He likes us repeating words every day so he can remember the words. Like every morning he will bring his car stickers and ask us what type and color it is. Or when we walk outside, he wants to hear the brand and the color of the cars in our parking lot. And he actually remembers all of them. If we make a mistake, he still stands there pointing to that car or holding that sticker until we say it right. He is a smart and sweet little guy with a strong will. He is very observant in his new environment. People are always surprised about how quiet he is. But he is very naughty at home. The therapist told me that there is a possibility that he might on the high level of spectrum because him not being able to talk is a red flag. His doctor didnāt worry about him having autism (I asked her on his 2 years old check up). She also checked his ears on that checkup appointment. I really believed that he was just not ready to talk yet.
Please advise me! Thank you guys so much for reading!
Please advise me! Thank you guys so much for reading!
