hi,
i apologise in advance for the long post....been a lurker for a while but never posted on this topic before.
my DD is 2.4 and is extremely slow with her speech, 20 words at most if i'm being generous!
she's a wonderful loving, gorgeous, funny darling little girl, but i do have some concerns (or maybe slight paranoia not really sure lol).
first off is her hearing, if she is engrossed in something she will totally tune you out if you ask her something...but if i ask her does she want chocolate/crisps she will answer straightaway??
when playing with blocks/puzzles, she will get them out the box and will line them up before doing what she wants to do with them..i'm not sure if this is red flag or she's copying me as i tend to "organise" things when doing puzzles etc to make it easier to see the pictures. when building the towers, she will build a red tower, yellow tower, blue etc, this is a new thing she's starting doing. she has been learning colours so not sure if its her way of sorting different colours out?
i take her to a playgroup every friday and she still doesn't really play with the other kiddies there, more along side them or copying them maybe. she is quite happy on the slides etc to take her turn, and will often encourage smaller kiddies to go down the slide if they seem stuck. she will sit and eat her toast with them really nice and will kind of engage with them but not much.
she is with a CM 4 days a week and she has two other little ones who are month or so apart in age from DD, and CM says she plays really nice with them, especailly little boy who is a similar personality to her, the other little girl is very confident and forthright lol also CM takes them to music group twice a week and today she said she joined in and really went for it for the first time ever.
sometimes i do wonder if she has autism or something similar, or am i just looking for things that are not there as a reason for the delayed speech.
she can be quite stubborn and refuse to do what she doesn't want to do, normal behaviour or something else?
she has had tonsillitis 5 times in 6 months, and i've been back and fore to the doctors. last time i met the health visitor and voiced my concerns over lack of speech - she is having a speech assessment with HV tomorrow morning and now i'm convinced they are going to stick a label on her...
so sorry for the rambling and long post, its just nice to finally get it ALL out there rather than only mentioning bits and bobs because i'm scared of what will be said lol
i know you are not doctors and can't diagnose, just asking for opinions and advice/experience really
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awwwwmannnn · 25/04/2013 21:06
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