Asking for my 16 months old son, who doesn’t point or wave, has only two words (“eight” and “ko” - for Bingo), will do things like brush teeth with us, takes turns to push the car down the ramp, return the ball, loves playgroups with other kids, lift hands to be picked up, doesn’t babble although is vocal like aaaaaaa or ayayayaya and occasional dadada. He understands most of the basic commands, like “give”, “Jackson’s turn”, “no”, “stop”, “go go go”
He simply doesn’t like to imitate sounds or gestures, like we are bothering him. He even sometimes pushes me away, like “go away, don’t bother me”. Loves spinning wheels or opening-closing doors, but only for 2 minutes and he can be distracted easily. Loves lying on a floor, watching the toys spin. Bizarre.
General doctor and speech therapist think it is not autism, but that he is language delayed. We have a twin sister who is a super-imitator, and super-pointer, aggressively points to everything she wants so the difference is obvious.
Tell me please you had a toddler who turned out fine, being similar.
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Have you had a toddler who didn’t point, language delayed, but turned out all right ?
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Injackane · 04/11/2023 02:16
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