My son is 3 and a half and I’m getting more and more concerned as time goes on about his development. He communicates only with one or two word commands, he will tell me what he wants only. For example he will just say cornflakes, no sentences like “can I have” or even “I want”. He just says the word. Same for what he wants on TV. When he wants to leave somewhere he will just say “let’s go” and grab my hand. At bedtime he just says “mummy bed” (where I read him a story before he goes to his bed). If I ask him a question he just repeats the question back to me. He won’t try anything like play doh or painting or colouring or any of the things I try to get him into.
He has been referred for speech and language therapy. My biggest worry is that all he seems interested in communicating are his wants. He doesn’t ask anything because he’s curious, or ask about other people, or say anything about other people, for example that he likes someone, or they’re funny or silly etc.
He only talks to me for what he wants, they are short limited ‘commands’ and that’s it.
He is loving and smiley and loves hugs, makes eye contact, potty trained, goes to bed and sleeps through every well. He also sometimes plays with his sister and is very gentle with the cats. He’s been referred to a paediatrician too, the speech therapist who referred him said he was a mixed bag of symptoms (in terms of possible signs of autism).
I’m just wondering whether anyone else has or had a child who communicated in such a limited way, and how they continued to develop, or what you may have tried that helped?