NINE YEAR OLD SAID " NO!"

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DS (9) can now say " No!" 😭

Ds is developmentally 9-18 months old and we were told he would never talk however over the past few months he has said the odd word here and there ( including " Mama"😍😍😍😍😍)

Today has has started to say " No!" At it all started at the doctors!

Doctor : " Hi DS are you okay today?"
DS " No"
Doctor " can I take your temperature/ check your ears / hear your chest?"
DS " No"
Doctor " can you give me a Hi- 5 ?"
DS " No" (😳🙈😂)

Lunch time

Me " DS do you want some custard for lunch?"
DS " No"

Naptime

Me : "come here DS and let's change your nappy "
DS " No"

DS HAS SAID A NEW WORD!! We were told he would NEVER talk and he has been saying so many words recently 😭😭

Currently listening to him say " No, No,No" on repeat instead of napping 🙈😍😍😍

Proud Mama... but I got a feeling this word might drive me slightly mad in a few weeks!🙈😂😂😍😍

Aww I remember your mama thread recently. 😍

What a clever boy to learn the word "no" on the day he has a doctors appointment! Such great timing!

I can imagine it's hard to encourage the nap too much when he's practising his new words & you want to keep hearing them!

Please continue to keep us updated on your amazing son. Seeing the joy in your posts truly makes my day! ❤️

Aw. How lovely

Aw, this is so nice! Well done to your DS - how exciting.

That's got to be the best 'no' you'll ever hear! What a wonderful thread.

Thankyou everyone!

I have never heard any word said so much in one day ... I have a feeling I'll be hearing it in my sleep!

😍😍😍 that's so lovely to hear OP!

I read your first thread. That's great news! Hope you get more words soon!

Yay! He’s on fire at the moment! Lovely to read.

That's great news!

Now is the time to be so, so careful you don't let any accidental swear words slip out when he's in earshot...

Great news! Long may he be a contrary monkey

Great news

I worked with a little boy who initially wasn't expected to be able to talk at all. They'd been trying picture cards.

He'd started to say a few words when I first started working with him but expectations were very low and he'd not progressed much more. It was as if once he'd managed a few words he'd exceeded their expectations and that was it; not much more was likely.

I'd talk to him about actions we were doing, what was going on around us etc. I was told I needed to simplify my communications as he wouldn't understand. Short sentences and simple words. He actually did very well with me though. I did a lot of work looking through books with him and talking about what was in the pictures.

After about a year he'd made brilliant progress and was speaking in sentences. It was very much stops and starts though. Some things he'd get very quickly and other things he struggled to understand. His overall development was very unequal; some things were at 18 months+ and others at 3-4 years and older.

What I found difficult was the low expectations most other people had. He wasn't expected to be able to talk so it seemed not much effort was made to get him to talk. He was an amazing little boy to work with.