It’s just a stage kids go through. When kids decide they want to start talking, they will. My oldest son didn’t start talking until he was over 2YO, after that, he has never shut up.
You don’t talk enough, you’re an idiot.
You talk too much and your ADS, and they drug you.
You may have survived the abortion phase, but there’s still a rough road ahead.
Not the least of which, is attending a school where the adults discount the value of the nation you were blessed to be born in.
Good luck keeping it, if it manages to survive until you actually can contribute to keeping it around longer.
One of my grandsons was late to talk. When he finally started, it was in complete sentences. He is extremely voluble now. It seemed as if he were trying out all the sounds, practicing them, until he felt he had it right. In the meantime he was absorbing grammar from his mother who speaks excellent English, which she didn’t learn from her father, alas.
Met a fellow in Speech class in college who didn’t speak until he was eleven years old. He became a cello player in USC’s Music School because he said the cello sounded to him most like the human voice.
My brother-in-law was a late talker and they discovered he was “tongue-tied”. So, they snipped the tissue which was tying his tongue down, and, after awhile, it wasn’t helping. Come to find out, the tissue had re-grown and tied him up again. They snipped again.
He has been a normal talker ever since.
My older sister didn’t talk until she was nearly two. My worried parents asked to the pediatrician about it and he told them to leave her alone - she would talk when she was ready.
Then I was born.
Boy, did that unleash the floodgates. She discovered that the easiest way for her to get the attention back was to talk. So she talked. And talked. And talked.
By the time the fifth daughter was born, we all knew that words were the way to keep from getting lost in the crowd. The youngest learned to talk very early - said her first sentence before she was ten months old - it was, “Mommy, I have a headache. Where’s the Bufferin?” My mom almost died.
I read this excellent book years ago when my now 16-year-old was a very late-talking 4-year-old.
I found it informative and well-written.
Sadly, my Johnny was not a late talker because of a stage or anything like that. He had suffered a stroke resulting in a cognitive loss.
BTW, his cardiologist just last week told me that he’d been reviewing Johnny’s records with his colleagues. Upon this review, in conjunction with some new research, they suspect that his stroke did not occur after birth, but in utero instead. We will never know for sure, though.
Anyway, the book is terrific and I recommend it to anyone with a late-talking child.
Regards,
I didn’t talk until I was four. Both of my sons were also late talkers.
A mistake parents can make is to allow the special education to get a hold of your late-talking child. They can ruin a normal child by instilling in him a sense that he is incapable of doing anything without help.
I will forever regret listening to the special education “experts.” The damage they did to my son is unforgivable.