I have a just turned 16 month daughter that I have been worried about for a number of months. She had covid when she was 12 months old and has pretty much never fully recovered from that development wise.
Communication:
-Sticks tongue out when I stick it out, imitates well
-she brings me things a lot of the time now majority of the time it’s for me to do some
thing with the object, to request more milk/water and she just randomly puts things in my lap or gives it to me and moves on
-has good joint attention but disappears the days she’s sick.
-She pulls on my clothes to get my attention, she has also recently started patting me on my body to request my attention and sometimes says “mama” whilst doing so
-says the word “ham” when eating or when requesting food
-says three words but not every day
-she touches what she wants if it’s close to her say for example a snack and then looks to me and pats me and so on until I either say ok and and give it to her or I say no
-she checks in very often and looks for praise when she’s playing
-she now waves sometimes
-she brings me the remote if she wants the tv putting on or channel changing (is this strange?)
-her checking in before she does something she isn’t allowed to has become more frequent
-pretends remote is phone and puts it to her ear
- high fives, gives kisses, plays a few nursery rhymes with actions.
-loves dropping things and looks to me after she’s done it to which I say “uh oh” and she laughs.
-has mastered the give me gesture and now gives without me putting my hand out by just saying the words “give me please”
-understands “come here” and a few other simple commands
-Gives when it benefits her a lot of the day though say a snack she wants opening, cup she wants filling those of sorts, when I ask her to give she does this way way less than her giving for help
-tries to put dummy in my mouth randomly and when I say “X turn” she puts it in her own mouth.
-reaches to be picked up since 8 months
-follows my point, not all the time though.
-uses eye contact well.
-understands no
-started walking
at 15 months and looks at us for praise.
-touches my nose when I say where’s nose
-her toy play she does put things into bowls/containers and copy my play if I show her how to play, she loves balls and we roll it back and forth to each other, she pushes cars along and puts
figurines in it, loves to play with kids ride along cars by pushing it herself or sitting on it, stacks things.
-uses toothbrush, hairbrush, spoon etc appropriately.
-pushes things away if she doesn’t want it any moves head away but doesn’t shake head for no or yes
-claps
-sleeps well and naps well but sometimes wakes up in middle of night wanting consoling as she wakes crying.
Concerns:
-still no index finger/whole hand pointing
(Has very few times pointed at my glasses or something close to her, don’t know if it’s her trying to touch things)
-some days chooses not to babble (tends to be the days she’s poorly)
-doesn’t shake head for yes or no
-still has stimmy behaviours shaking head, tilting head, randomly laying on floor and resting head. She does now come up to us when she shakes her head and laughs and gets us to join in so makes a game of it.
-still does some side eye looking/dragging
-not sure how much of this is to do with her ears or if they are genuine stims as she’s had a number of ear infections. She’s had a hearing test which they said was fine but not perfect hearing.
-spins wheels briefly few times a day.
-covers ears randomly
-is utterly obsessed with the tv she will literally shove anyone out the way if they try to talk to her if a tv show is on. Cocomelon being her obsession
-obsessed with phones and even presses buttons well
-my major concern is her eye contact has reduced massively. It used to be so good when she was a younger baby. She does use it whenever she communicates but she pretty much ignores everyone else and only looks at me. Some people have mentioned she ignores them.
-will loook if someone new walks in but not very often
-name response has reduced but will look to me if I say her name. Isn’t really bothered if someone else is calling her name
-she’s still very focused on screws and such little details on things/objects
-still holds together index finger or middle finger with thumb often (finger posturing)
-rocks back and forth and sways side to side when music on or when I’m singing to her and sometimes randomly
- W sits a lot has no signs of low tone at all has good core strength
-scared of grass
My daughter has a number of allergies such as cmpa, eggs, banana and newsy one being wheat. I have tried taking her to the GP buy they are not concerned at all. If she eats something that doesn’t sit right with her she gets all types of symptoms and her behaviour is affected significantly too and almost seems to regress.