3 year old not communicating

[Lize90]

Heya,
I have a 3 year old daughter who has a speech delay, just now has started repeating everything we say back to us and just started asking her needs with single words.She constantly talks to herself out of context and likes to sing and dance a lot. She is always playing in her own little world and being very happy about it . Does anyone else had the same behaviours from their child , are this signs of autism ? Thank you .

That's possibly echolalia, which can be a sign of autism. Did they have a 2-year check, and if so, did they do an ASQ-SE questionnaire at all?

A lot of what you mentioned can be signs of autism in a 3 year old - no two-way conversation, out of context speech and repeating back.. also singing/dancing/being in her own world. I would talk to my GP or a private specialist if you can stretch to it.

Can she understand what you’re saying to her, or follow instructions?
Google receptive and expressive communication.

We are in a waiting list for speech and language. She does understand almost everything yes and she takes directions like go get your shoes or bring me this and that or throw this on the bin .

They did yes and we are on a waiting list for speech therapy .

What score did the ASQ SE come back with, did they explain why they only referred to speech therapy and not to any other specialists like paedtricians? Also have you gotten referred for a hearing test just incase.

It’s was 80% if I’m not mistaken. They want to observe her first in nursery so we wait for that too. Thanks for your reply .

That’s good! If her receptive language/understanding is good then that’s a great sign. See what they say - might just be a 3 year old being a 3 year old 😊

Hey,
Do you have any update on your DD?

Heya , her speech and understand is better but she still doesn’t make back and forth conversation.

Thanks for the update. That’s good you are seeing some improvement.

My son just turned 3 and is very similar to your DD. We actually had a speech and language therapy appointment back in January where they told me to ‘give him time’ as he was slowly progressing. Basically as long as I was seeing SOME progress we were fine. However, I called back recently and decided I wanted him to be seen again (appointment this Friday) because he is also not really having ‘conversations’ as such. He repeats words, says a few sentences, very verbal in that sense but we can’t have much of a conversation because I don’t feel his understanding is fully there. It’s coming along but very slowly so I’m wondering if there was any other help they could give me.

Good luck with your SLT appointment when it comes through. I’d really appreciate if you can update what happens

Good luck to you too. My daughter was in speech therapy when she was 2 but they stopped us as she was doing what they asked her to do but still she struggles to communicate. She’s also confused with 3 languages as we speak a different language at home so this might make it harder for her. It’s hard though if they can’t communicate their needs.

@Lize90 @Erin62 Hello, some updates?

Heya , she didn’t much enjoyed speech therapy and wanted just to leave the room which was very stressful for me .
she’s doing much better now in general though …she has outgrown the phase of being in her own world and just talking to herself , she’s not so chatty but she will always come and ask what she needs , she has also make friends in nursery so slowly but we catching up …🙃