Anyone's kids (not autistic) completely non verbal age 2?

[Tinkeringg]

Anyone’s kids with diagnosed apraxia not say anything at all age 2 apart from very rarely a word or animal noise and then never again?

Or did they try to say stuff just not very well and get it sounds mixed up?

Mine is almost exactly the same . I swear to god he can talk though. When were driving I hear him saying mama and dada sometimes. He said tractor once. I called DH in and he wouldn't mutter a sound. He does say hi, but otherwise its uh sounds that mean different things, I know his yeah uh from his help uh. He's 2 in September so ABIT younger. I'm not concerned about neaurodiversity.

I just talk to him as much as possible. He loves me reading to him, he loves singing. He knows exactly what I'm saying. Some kids are early, some are late. He was walking at 10 months and could climb a 6 ft ladder unsupervised before 1, his cousin a few days older has only just learned to walk

DS didn't babble, he made a couple of speech sounds at 12 months, literally twice, he didn't have two speech sounds he would make regularly - and that was the only sound he made until he was 2, when he said 'da, da' twice and then nothing again until he was 3.5, we started speech therapy at 2 and finished at 4.5 - he was very unclear from 3.5 until 4.5. It wasn't apraxia though, but I met someone at the time whose child had apraxia and she said it was like they were talking in a different language, again speech therapy really helped her daughter and it didn't take ten years, years yes but not ten - I think you need to find a speech therapist who specialises in this area, speak to a couple and ask for recommendations.

Thanks for sharing. How’s your son doing now ?

@Tinkeringg - he's doing great and is working ahead in both maths and english and he talks a lot! which is lovely- but it wasn't apraxia / autism it was s&l difficulties. If you're not on the waiting list to see your local paediatric team it would be worth insisting on a GP / HV referral because the wait can be quite long and they can help with getting the LEA on board if extra support is needed at nursery. Unfortunately NHS speech therapy is pretty under resourced and they only do 6 week blocks at a time (at least in our area )and private speech therapy isn't cheap but it was so worth it for us, we started weekly and went down to fortnightly after a year or so.

Our primary school has S&L resourced provision. It's amazing, every child we have known there over the years has been discharged into fully mainstream by end of Y4. It's unusual for them need for stay past infant age.

2 is so so young and SaLT really changes lives.

Thank you. Did you suspect apraxia before you realized it wasn’t that?

Yes, one of my friends child. He had n older brother who would do the tlking.

He could make him self understood ie getting the VHS (we are talking decades ago) he wanted to watch.

The health visitor or some other professional visited and suggested using some signs so she could potty training.

Once he realised he had to sign a drink to get a drink he decided to speak.

I also worked with someone who said she'd not spoken until 5, and then started talking in full sentences.