Hi, we have a 4 year old. He was a late speaker( didn't speak till he was 3years old) also he was late at everything he did example, crawling, walking etc, however, he doesn't have a build up to them, one day he just crawled and one day he just stood up and walked.
At 4 years he is at one sentence level and misses communication level. He will pretend and play and follow most of the instructions.
The only thing which troubles us is he will not sit calmly in a place untill you give him phone which we have to give for him to eat food.
He also plays with all his toys at once and gets bored of one in 5 minutes and go to other.
We have been noticing this other thing where he goes and cuddles strangers and other kids. We are teaching him a lot about keeping safe distance and not everyone likes cuddles , but as soon as we are in a park it's impossible to stop him.
Mentioning about his speech he is good at vocabulary, for example yesterday he came to me with an empty box and said ' it's a it's a it's a' pointing at the box , I said 'It's an empty box' , he looked at me and said ' it's an empty LUNCH box'.
It looks like his speech as plateaued at 'it's a ' and few other sentences.
He hasn't been diagnosed of anything yet. Some friends and relatives advise us that he will eventually grow out of it. Any suggestions welcome.
Thanks.