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How many non verbal children did you know growing up? How many do you know now?

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MaryMaryVeryContrary · 01/06/2024 22:53

Not a goady thread and I wont be engaging with posters who want to speculate on the causes by starting debates about parenting and screen time.

But in the absence of any proper data, I’m interested to know whether others think there has been a rise in non verbal children (age 3 and over). I didn’t know any growing up, and now I know 3. So it seems to me there has been a rise but it may just be the area I live in.

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Saschka · 01/06/2024 23:00

None and none.

OP this is going to depend so much on which circles you move in. I don’t think there anything to suggest there are more non-verbal children than before, they just weren’t in mainstream schooling but now they are more likely to be.

Firebird83 · 01/06/2024 22:59

None when I was growing up but I know 2 now (children of friends)

Faz469 · 01/06/2024 22:59

I growing up.

Now 1 selective mute and 1 fully non verbal child.

DancefloorAcrobatics · 01/06/2024 22:58

One - from age 5/6 onwards...
Don't know any now, but know 4 with other speech impediments like only whispering & stutter.

TheHateIsNotGood · 01/06/2024 22:58

None and None - I'm 61

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MaryMaryVeryContrary · 01/06/2024 22:58

cestlavielife · 01/06/2024 22:54

Define non verbal.
A 3 year old?13 ?
Learning disabilities? Asd?

I know it’s a blunt instrument but let’s say age 3+ (as not speaking until 2 can be normal development), unable to speak at all (rather than a bit delayed), for a reason that can’t be medically tested for (so I suppose ASD counts for the purposes of this thread as there’s no physical test for it).

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Aswad · 01/06/2024 22:57

0
now 4

sweetkitty · 01/06/2024 22:57

I knew none growing up but then I was on a mainstream school not looking for them. Now I am an ASN teacher working with primarily non-verbal children so personally know a lot.

What I will say is non-verbal does not mean non-thinking, a lot of non-verbal children are clever little people, once you tap into their way of communicating and build a bond with them it’s amazing what they know and understand.

Overthebow · 01/06/2024 22:56

None and none

Kitkat1523 · 01/06/2024 22:56

None and none

MiddleAgedKirin · 01/06/2024 22:56

1 and 0

NDmumoftwo · 01/06/2024 22:56

None and none x

Octavia64 · 01/06/2024 22:56

None growing up

Four now.
I work in a Sen school

Abitorangelooking · 01/06/2024 22:56

None and none.

Oldernotwiser44 · 01/06/2024 22:55

Zero and zero

cestlavielife · 01/06/2024 22:54

Define non verbal.
A 3 year old?13 ?
Learning disabilities? Asd?

Eeeden · 01/06/2024 22:54

None and none