DD is 3.5 and has speech delay although she really is coming on leaps and bounds at the moment. She has been accepted onto the ASD diagnostic pathway for speech delay and noise sensitivity as the primary indicators.
She used to not speak in public places but is MUCH better now. However, she has never spoken at nursery. The most she has done is making animal noises on command.
We did a course of private speech therapy last year and the therapist said that children with selective mutism do not have speech delay. But there are still a few things that make me feel like she does?
For example. as SOON as we leave the room at nursery, she will start speaking including to children and workers in the corridor after seven hours of silence in the room.
We had a playdate with a nursery friend this weekend at a location she is normally verbal at, but as soon as she saw her friend she stopped talking and was visibly anxious. After about 30 minutes of trying to regulate her she started to relax and for the first time ever, her friend heard her speak.
We had the speech therapist go to nursery and she had no luck getting any speech from her there.
A colleague had mentioned their daughter was completely non verbal but as soon as they started school, started talking, however when she took her back to nursery to pick up a sibling, they stopped talking while in the room.
Curious as to others thoughts here!