Looking for thoughts on my youngest, who has just turned 3.
About a year ago we felt that his speach was delayed, seemingly having far less words that expected for his age. We were referred to a speach and language for review, but after being on the waiting list for months he progressed quite a lot and when he was assessed he was “average” for his age.
Fast forward to now, we can have small one sentence conversations together. That was, up until 3 days ago, where he’s regressed to pronouncing everything like a baby with his mouth open wide. No one can understand him. I’ll ask him to repeat specific works and make specific sounds, while he tries his best, he keep opening his mouth wide to make a baby sound - really difficult to talk to him at all, or understand him. He does this with everyone (not just us /his parents)
He still has the same vocabulary, it’s the pronouncements and how he’s using his mouth to extenuate the “aa” sound in every single word.
Everything I’ve read about regressions is linked to a life changing event or autism. He hasn’t had any changes in his life. We are in the same routine. He doesn’t have any other symptoms related to autism - I’d say he’s also a typical boy - full of energy, very physical with play. He’s always struggled to hold long spans of attention on books. He loves messy play and climbing. He’s ok with other kids, but he does fall into a more reserved / pulling unkind faces at other kids interaction (but he has lots of friends at nursery, who he’s used to)- he’s not overly social outside his circle.
Because we’ve had concerns with his speach in the past, and now this huge regression…., I just want to see if anyone has any thoughts or experiences on if there is something real here that I need to push more with the GP / health visitor for more investigation.