I've mentioned this before and been told to get an asessment for ds3, but HV insists no problem. It may well be that she thinks we are paranoid: DS1 awaiting a re-diagnosis for AS, ds2 awaiting a re-diagnosis for glue ear (poor lad keeps getting forgotten from system, going on years now).
DS3 is 2.5 and has very little language: byebye, where dummy- I thnk that's it. he will occasionally repeat a word if you emphasize it (eg again) but then it just disappears and that's the last of it.
DH raised with HV, but repeatedly told not to worry, no referral. But I picked up a journal at Uni today and it said that no phrases at 3 constitutes severe language delay: there's just no way he'll have that language, not interested.
More concerned as he has to start school early, no mid-year admissions here and he is a late summer (27th July) baby.
He does;
get talked to A LOT- we make an effort for 1 2 1 time (the dummy v recent thing, night only)
go to a childminder who is experienced and also trying and failing to get him to talk, and who is also concerned
His brothers were talking by about a year, early both of them.
There is a history of hearing loss in the family beyond ds2, and also a fairly traceable history of AS, although despite the fact that he does have obsessions (jigsaws- a real talent, can do two mixed together at once) he is a loving, emathic child.
Is the HV right or do we have to fight this? has anyone else had a child who was like this then developed suddenly? And what is the 'losing' words bit about?
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PeachyClair · 13/02/2006 13:50
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