She was prem by 6 weeks. Babbles non stop. Says some single words that are clear such as daddy, rabbit, doggy, milk, juice, no, stop, mama, baa (whenever she sees a pic of a sheep) woof when our dog barks, ball. That’s all her words so far. She does however seem to say random gibberish which probably is an object etc, but we can’t identify what she’s saying.
she looks when we point at something. Understands happy and sad faces. Understands simple instructions such as let’s go out, shoes on, come here, sit down, time to eat, jump etc.
i have 2 older DC. One is now 13 and I can’t remember when he started talking etc, but my mum tells me he was a late talker and didn’t really start making sense until 2.5 years old. He is doing very well and is academically and socially very smart. My 2nd ds is non verbal autistic. He never said any words other than dada. He’s 10 and understands almost everything, but still doesn’t talk at all. Not even one single word. He has his own ways of communicating and does a very good job.
im now not sure what to expect with my toddler, obviously I’m forever looking for signs of autism due to our experience with DS2.
Does her progress sound reasonable?
she doesn’t hand flap or stim. She has a very short temper though. She smiles at us and will look at us for reassurance in new strange situations, such as a new visitor comes to the house. However, she doesn’t talk properly yet. Only has those few words and isn’t really interested in playing with dolls or pretend play yet, but will
“feed” the doll if I ask her to. She occasionally tiptoes, but then she heel walks, crawls for fun too and finds it hilarious.
Does any of this sound like she maybe making normal progress?