My nearly 2.5 YO little girl still uses a lot of echolalia and I am starting to think that it is not normal kid in her language acquisition
She
- sleeps and naps well 13 hours
- Eats a good variety of food although a bit picky but loves green vegetables
- Follow 2 step directions even when upset about something .
- She can focus well for activities like colouring for a good 10 minutes and read a couple of books .
- Always hold my hand outside
- Doesn’t have meltdowns . When tantrums she stops within 10 minutes and easily redirected
- She interacts well with caretakers and family . She plays back and forth with her peers by exchanging and sharing toys , playing with the ball
- Has appropriate social boundaries and always shares her toys , copies children’s actions when parallel play
- Doesn’t bite , push , throw .
- She is excited to go to new places etc
- She loves getting messy with play doh , colouring
- She always holds my hand outside
- Always eager to follow commands like tidying up and bed time
Communication wise
- speaks in 3-4 word sentences
- Asks lots of questions : what’s that ? What happened ? What’s that sound ? Where is my toy / daddy ? What have you got ?
- Answer easy yes and no questions , some easy why questions , open ended ones like what did you do ? What do you want ? What’s / where’s who’s ?
- Uses easy pronouns like I , me , you mine , ours , yours not always correctly
- She shows her toys to new people
She almost always repeats phrases that we say but not questions and if I say to her “ hello my baby’s name “ she just repeats it . She can form long spontaneous sentences like “ my bunny is eating food “ when she does the action of feeding bunny but to make a request she still uses single words. At times she says “ I want more pasta” but not a lot .
I did ask professionals and they just brushed it off as normal development that will taper off after 3 .