My 3.3 year old only started talking around 2.5 years old so he is delayed with speech and understanding but improving everyday. The last couple of months, he keeps repeating things he doesn’t understand. Before he would just ignore you but now his speech has massively progressed, he repeats things you ask him which he doesn’t understand. Also he repeats things such as saying to him ‘’hello Ben’’ He will then repeat “hello Ben” instead of just hello.
if you ask him things such as “did you play with Jake in nursery today” he will say “Jake”. I have started saying yes quickly after the end of the sentence which he sometimes just answers yes, it depends if he is understanding what I’m asking.
if I say “do you want a banana or do you want chocolate or shall we go for a wee” he will always respond yes or no and doesn’t repeat those things as he understands them.
if he’s asking for something and I say “wait a minute” he will keep copying whatever I say until he gets the thing he wants, I think sometimes he thinks he has to repeat those words as he’s still understanding how to wait, he hasn’t fully grasped that yet.
It’s hard to explain to him not to repeat certain things as he’s already speech delayed so I’m unsure how to get him to actually understand and wait rather than repeat the “wait” or “hello Ben”.
when I pick him up from nursery, he will repeat “hello, hello, hello” until I say it back to him and the same with saying bye.
he loves children although he doesn’t seem to know what to say to them besides hello, run away, chase me and thank you.
He is a very empathic child, loves other children and holding their hands, hugging them, kisses soft toys, always hugging and loving others, toilet trained for wees, loves counting, music, alphabet, colours, shapes, numbers, loves football, dinosaurs, cars, water play, soft play ect.
He is impulsive, doesn’t like waiting or sitting down, quite hyper and on the go when outside or in nursery, tantrums when cant get or do what he wants, fleets to different things, very short attention span-nothing really keeps his interests more than a few mins unless he’s outside.
he’s waiting for his second speech therapy appointment, when he went to his first appointment she had no concerns apart from some speech delay.
I just want to know if the repeating is quite normal for his age considering he is delayed and how to help stop it.