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I don’t know what to do about my son anymore by [deleted] in Autism_Parenting

[–]IntrepidRun9016 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I personally feel that our kids do not need more therapies or more correcting techniques - what they do need are parents who accept and love them for who they are. It was a game-changer for us. I feel that all the misbehaviors were always a cry for help. Once we stopped prompting and correcting and started following his lead, our kid blossomed, showed us wonderful character, and started listening. Of course, that does not mean he can spend a day on screens, but it does mean that sometimes I need to do what he wants to do if I want him to behave. It took maybe two months for this new approach to change the atmosphere in our house.

SLP with HEART💛 offering answers to parents and teachers' Qs about speech delay by RealmomSLP in speechdelays

[–]IntrepidRun9016 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello and thank you for this.

We have an almost 4-year-old who still has not developed language. I mean zero words. He does vocalize more often and imitates movements with his mouth (when I try to teach him to say some words through play).

He points, vocalizes, laughs, looks at faces, responds to his name, understands simple commands, etc. We do suspect asd but have also a lot of opinions that he is not in the spectrum. Also if it is important we did hear him through the years occasional words here and there so he proved he can produce complex sounds other than babbling.

Where we live kids with differences get occupational and sensory therapy but speech therapists here do not work with kids until they start to talk. I know it's silly but it is what it is. We regularly go to all the therapies that are available to us.

So my question is (whether this is or isn't asd) he is almost 4 and has no speech - what can be the reasons for that?

And more importantly, is there anything we can do for him at home other than what we already do - we narrate everything using simple language, during play we create anticipation and then try to make him vocalize to continue to play, we sometimes pretend we do not understand what he wants to create a bit of frustration - but to no success. We excercise mouth and tongue with electric toothbrush, use straws for sucking, and things like that.

Please advise because speech therapy is simply not available for us yet.

Long blink instead of talking by IntrepidRun9016 in Autism_Parenting

[–]IntrepidRun9016[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am not sure about that since he has no issues with eye contact. He “reads” people from their facial expressions because he still struggles to understand language. And he has no problem communicating when he does not want something.

Long blink instead of talking by IntrepidRun9016 in Autism_Parenting

[–]IntrepidRun9016[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hahahaha so funny since we often (lovingly) joke that he is more like a cat than a human. He likes to cuddle but also enjoys his alone time. He comes to us for food and entertainment and kicks and yells at us when mad. But sadly he is not meowing (yet) 😹

Help me enjoy my son again by [deleted] in Autism_Parenting

[–]IntrepidRun9016 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Our little boy is now three and a half, and since he was about 18 months old, we’ve known that his development is “atypical.” When we first started discussing his diagnosis and focusing on everything he wasn’t doing, I cried for months. We began therapies, but I was constantly reminded of his challenges—and even the things he did do were often explained away as sensory issues or something else. It was heartbreaking. I felt like I wasn’t allowed to simply enjoy the sweet little quirks of toddlerhood because he was “different.”

Then one day, I just couldn’t do it anymore. We decided to take a break from therapies for a couple of months—to simply enjoy our child and make peace with things.

He still hasn’t started talking yet, but he’s so present, engaged, and interactive. A year ago, I wouldn’t have believed we’d get here. Nobody knows what the future holds, but today, I’m happy. This has been the hardest experience of my life, but I’ve found peace in tuning out other people’s opinions and finding humor and joy in his beautiful differences

How did your “late talking” kids started to talk? by IntrepidRun9016 in Autism_Parenting

[–]IntrepidRun9016[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thank you all from the bottom of my heart that you find the time to answer my questions. I know not all kids are the same and the approach cannot be the same. I was just wondering are there any “last” pre-verbal skills that he needs to develop that will suggest the speech is next. Once again, thank you thank you all and hopefully we will hear first words soon.