so my 18 month son was evaluated from Early intervention program and has been suggested speech therapy for his language skills.
He has few words right now for example… mama, dah (daddy), eLLO (hello), nah (NO), mmo (more), a-duh (all done)…
He is a very active kid Mashallah and is always into solving puzzles (which he is great at) and ordinary toys like stuffed animals and plain cars dont fascinate him much, he loves to play with cars that run, make sounds or have sound buttons, and slides the cars on top of a board or books because thats where they go faster… etc etc he is more into mechnical aspect of things more interested to know how things work rather than playing with simple toys…
he claps when he hears his fav nursery rhymes, music, sometimes tries to dance with it… loves to pull on kitchen cabinets, wants to help me in taking dished out of dishwasher, or refrigerator, wants to rotate the spoon in the pan when i am doing it during cooking…
loves to smile and play with daddy being a horse and he riding it… he will become a horse after so daddy can ride him loves to play hide and seek where he like to find you when u r hiding…
the only thing i was worried about was he wasnt talking much, but now i am reading online and i am just so confuse if he is on some spectrum of autism… am i reading too much into lines? the evealuators didnt mention anything about it but they said they didnt see him playing with other kids because he was too much into figuring out how toys worked and was quiet and this can be because he cant speak like other kids and was ver quiet… they evaluated him at day care.
at home he is sometimes babbling, but always making some kind of noise unless tv is on and he is watching elmo which he would quietly but would laugh through it…
does it sound like there could be something? i am just confuse…
Carp, it sounds like your child was evaluated by a SLP (Speech Language Pathologist) which is a great start But if you have more concerns, contact EI and request an evl by a child psychologist or psychiatrist who can determine whether or not your child may be on the autism spectrum.
I'm completely NOT a doc or expert but it sounds like your little just hasnt had much experience with other kids. EI can involve your child in programs that will slowly introduce your child to group play.
Either way, contact them and ask for firther evals and they will help help and get them done, get more clear answers for you.
Carp, it sounds like your child was evaluated by a SLP (Speech Language Pathologist) which is a great start But if you have more concerns, contact EI and request an evl by a child psychologist or psychiatrist who can determine whether or not your child may be on the autism spectrum.
I'm completely NOT a doc or expert but it sounds like your little just hasnt had much experience with other kids. EI can involve your child in programs that will slowly introduce your child to group play.
Either way, contact them and ask for firther evals and they will help help and get them done, get more clear answers for you.
Thanks Mamaof3!
yes he was evaluated by speech pathologist.... my son has been in day care since he was 5 months old, at 10 month of age he was moved to waddler room from infants because he was very mobile compared to other children so he ended up with children 4-5 months older than him....
he does play with them, its just when the speech pathologist came they took him another room and he just didnt want to be there.... came back and tehy gave him some toys i think and whenever he has new toys he is way too much into them, that can be the reason he wasnt playing with other kids, and i think they wanted to see more of it... although she did say that at one point one of the kids was upset and he went and gave him a hug!
then she tells me that she saw him as too quite compared to other kids.... i dont know what to make of it.... i guess i will go to the speech therapy route, get a hearing test done, and see if that makes any difference before i go to other route....
spoke to my pediatrician this week and he said he was NOT convinced at all that my son has any problems, and according to him language was something that varies greatly for 18 month olds... some talk very well and some dont at all.... and he seemed to be on the not all category but they usually pick it up.....
I know you had experience with this, I am curious to know how you knew? or at what time you found out?
My eldest and my youngest are "on the spectrum" The biggest signs are lack of eye contact and their incessant love of spinning wheels or fans, lining things up, sorting things They;d rather do these things than play with other kids They are lovely and loving but they dont have social abikities compared to other kids thier own age. These are the things you eed to look for,
My eldest and my youngest are "on the spectrum" The biggest signs are lack of eye contact and their incessant love of spinning wheels or fans, lining things up, sorting things They;d rather do these things than play with other kids They are lovely and loving but they dont have social abikities compared to other kids thier own age. These are the things you eed to look for,
Thank you so much!!!
I have been reading online about it a lot lately....
my son does do the eye contact with me, it just that he wouldnt look at me for striaght 10 minutes.. whne he wants something he will come to me ask for it in babbles while looking at me and once i give him he will go and play with it or whatevere the specifc thing is intended for....
he has ride on and mini quad which he loves to ride and sometimes will looks at the quad's wheels while pressing the start button and see the wheel spinning but i have not seen him doing for a longe period of time... to me its just his curiosity because he is always more curious in how things/toys work rather than just plain playing with them. he takes his little cars and will play with them by moving them front and back with his hand....
he does try to play with other kids at daycare but only if he wants to, if he is forced into it he would simply refuse... but lately has been much better in sharing toys and helping cleanup....
yesterday i went home and seriously looks for these things while playign with him and I dont think he has this behaviour in him.... i can honestly say that its his curiosity and determination... if he wants to do something he will be very determined and testing limits but he is easily distracted as well if i dont want him to do something ... he will cry for like 30 secs and will move on....
but he would not sit and read book with me, not at home not at day care, unless you have him in lap and then he is just mor interested in flipping pages rather than interested in listening or looking....
Carp, he sounds like a really cute little guy! And very curious about things which is great! It sounds like you have things well in hand.
All 3 of my boyz even the middle son who is not on the spectrum didnt listen to me read them stories until age 2 or 2 and a half. Like yours, they wanted to play with the pages more than listen to the story...but one of the OT therapists that came for my eldest son told me that's how their interest in books begins. Let them play with the book, let them turn the pages, talk about the pictures a little and eventually their interest will turn to hearing the story. But 18 months is fine for just playing with the pages.
When my eldest was into wheels and fans, he would take a car, turn it over and spin the wheels - he could do this literally for hours if I let him. He'd also take cards and line them up in a perfectly straight line. Same with legos, instead of building something, he'd sort them by color, by size or shape. When he stared to talk, he would look anywhere but at the person he was speaking to. He's pretty much overcome that now, he's had some great SLPs and some great teachers.
But anyway, all the best to your little guy. Sounds like he's in great hands!
Carp...your littleun is only 18months old, mine turns 2 soon and only speaks few works, mama, papa, ye lena, de do.....stop it...no, where's it gone, downstairs, upstairs, juice, shoes, socks, jacket and a few words like that, he's not speaking in sentences, and has only really using more words in the past month or 2...
my son is the same when it comes to reading books, he'd rather change the pages and look at the pictures than read the book....
every child is different and develop at different stages, the key is talking to him, talk to him when you're dressing him, point out his trousers, shirt, shoes and socks, whne you get in the car explain taht you're putting him in his seat, point out flowers, the sky, moon, aeroplanes etc...the more you will communicate with him, the more he will absorb and eventually pick up on it when he wants to.
Please dont worry about it right now, from the details you have given here, I think you're reading too much into it.
I also have an 18 month old, and he has the same amount of vocabulary as yours.
Don't compare him with other kids, every child is different.Having older siblings also changes how quickly they talk.
Also,I've read somewhere that boys aren't really good at eye contact.Girls love eye-contact, looking at faces etc.That's why they like to play with dolls and love babies.
But boys would rather run away than look at you for longer that 2 seconds hehe
Thanks to you all for your wonderful replies, i feel much better now.
I did take him for hearing test yesterday and his hearing was at normal range, Audiologist couldnt check him for low sounds because he was more interested in pulling the cables in the sound room rather than listening to noises....
but he did have fluid in his ears, which according to audiologist was something she needs to check in another 2 months again since he recently had ear infection and it can be because of that.....
loves to play hide and seek where he like to find you when u r hiding…