Our 37 month old son is not as fluent as his peers and we are concerned. When he was about 30 months old his prechool teacher asked us if perhaps he had hearing problems because at times he would not respond when to addressed. An auditory evaluation ruled this out. In every other respect he seems to be thriving, but after speaking to a few people, we have become filled with fear that there may be something wrong. He has met and surpassed all of his development milestones but he is
a. not crazy about playing with others--he'll play among others, but prefers sticking to himself.He will say "do you know where Papi is?" , lets go, come on, its snack time, and maybe one dozen or so other complete sentences, but for the most part, he'll say a whole bunch of jibberish and then the last word will make sense and we will know what he is asking for.
b. not talking in big sentences.
Just today, his teacher told me that he seems to be talking more but that sometimes they will ask him something about a project they are working on, and he will answer something completly off subject like "my shirt is blue"......I don't know what to think anymore.
Last month we had a much awaited for visit with a speech pathologist and the entire thing was a bust. She put him in a room with abunch of toys and after a few minutes started singing "clean up" and expected him to comply so they could start the testing portion. He flipped out. IN under 2 minutes he did every bad thing he's ever done-kicking, crying, screaming, throwing, full on tantrum. The more authoritative the therapist was asserting her need to have him comply, the more berserk he got.
The one good thing is that a child neurology consult last week was great. He reported that our son does not appear to have any neurological issues and that he has an ample vocabulary. (He used flash cards and either said "wheres the ? or whats this?....and he did great, but what does this mean in the big picture?
We are trying a bilingual(spanish/english) therapist next week, but if anyone has had a similar experience, I would love to hear your story. We are really afraid of what we are going to be told.
