To ask about your late talkers?

[SinkGirl]

My twins are 26 months now and neither can talk.

One has a lot of health issues and is under many specialists. He has a SALT assessment in a few weeks. He babbles constantly but not deliberately.

His twin has no health issues and is doing well developmentally in most areas except social skills and communication. He only says ga or long noises but no other consonants. Still waiting for his SALT appointment.

I’m starting to really worry about the second has he has no input from any medical professionals and I’m worried we are missing something.

Those whose little ones still weren’t speaking at this age, how did things work out?

No they don’t use dummies - they did in nicu but not since then (believe me, at times I wish they had 😂)

They don’t have a twin language - they don’t interact with each other at all although I have noticed them looking at each other more in the last few days. Twins generally are delayed with speech, but it’s more his lack of understanding and his lack of interest in others that worries me. If someone enters the room he pretty much ignores them usually. I’m trying to do everything I can and have had some tips from SALT groups already.

The More Than Words book by Hanen is a good resource for young children with receptive language difficulties. It is v expensive though.

My friends son has downs syndrome and as a result was a late talker. She taught him sign language which was designed for babies. It was so awesome i taught my son too. He was signing months before his 2nd birthday and he spoke fairly early too. Well worth trying there were books and cds on it and now probably youtube videos. Signing takes away the stress of not knowing what they want and they can start as early as 9 months in some cases! Hope this helps

Some children wirh special needs really dont take to sifn language rhough, my son necer has insred we use PECS .

Hi there, DD late talker, was seen by SALT, sessions attended. DD now 14 in ms secondary, not the greatest academic attainer, but behaves, improves, asks for help, has friends, socialises. We are not a chatty, gossipy, or nosey family, and assessment seems a bit subjective to me, but have always gone along with everything 'authority figures' have decided - out of fear of greater intervention in parenting.

My nephew was a late talker. His speech was unintelligible to most people until he was about six.
He didn't have any special help.

He is an adult now. He has been educated to post graduate standard and is now a divisional director in an international company.
I do wish that we had realised when he was small, that he was just a late developer, it would have saved a lot of worry.

Not all children fit into recognised patterns of development.

Incidentally he has turned out to be a lovely, warm, caring person too.

@SinkGirl do you have an update on how your twins development came along? It would be much appreciated currently in the same situation with my twins x

My DS didn’t talk until he was about 4. Needed speech therapy. He’s an adult who is still quiet, turns out he’s not a chatterbox like his dad who never shuts up. He manages a good job , good social skills, just not a talker.

@Scorchedterf oh really. My DS is such a chilled boy. Very laid back and easy going he babbles but no words at all at 2 also doesnt point like OP said. His dad is also laid back and not a big chatterbox i did wonder about that but i asked my mother in law & he did not have any speech delay as a child x

My daughter is a teen now but was completely silent until she was 3. No babbling or anything. She was late doing everything, really late. Rolling, crawling walking, sitting up etc. I wasn’t overly worried as she understood everything we said and apart from speech there were no other signs at 3 that anything else was going on. Her speech was hard to understand until she was about 5 and even then she still missed certain letters.