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Children reaching age 3 without being able to say a word, survey finds
timesonline.co.uk ^ | January 4, 2010 | Joanna Sugden

Posted on 01/04/2010 9:10:50 PM PST by ransomnote

The survey of more than 1,000 parents found that a child’s background was not a factor in how quickly they learnt to talk. Working parents who put their babies in day care are just as likely to have a child whose speech develops late as those who leave their baby in front of the television.

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TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: alberteinstein; children; education; einstein
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To: ntmxx

Some may poo-poo the idea, but my grandson was two months premature and weighed 3.1 pounds when born. He still started talking at about a year, and full sentences by two. He is now 5 and can carry on a conversation with an adult.
My kids refused to have a TV, and when they brought him over, we turned ours off, too. His “special” treat on his 3rd birthday was to watch his FIRST video. His father read to him out of the Bible and read the whole thing to him before he turned one.


21 posted on 01/04/2010 10:28:08 PM PST by irishtenor (Beer. God's way of making sure the Irish don't take over the world.)
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To: irishtenor

Glad to hear a positive result, such is not uncommon, less to no pop-culture and interlocking corporate media influence is healthy for growing children; keep up the good work.


22 posted on 01/04/2010 11:30:31 PM PST by ntmxx (I am not so sure about this misdirection!)
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To: Yaelle
My youngest did not talk until he was four. He is now getting ready to go to law school to get a second degree.

Some brains take a little more time to develop. At least it did in his case.

23 posted on 01/04/2010 11:34:58 PM PST by Cold Heat
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To: KarlInOhio

hmmm....that looks interesting. My first daughter talked early, my second didn’t talk until she was two. And then it was her own language. Only her two year old sister and I had a clue what she was saying, and her big sister could interpret better than me. My two year old son hit two and started talking in complete sentences. I don’t know what the difference among the three really are.

I’m homeschooling the oldest now, and she’s easy. I can tell her brother will be an easy student. The middle one, she can count to one hundred but doesn’t know all her letters yet. She’s the main reason why I am homeschooling. She learns differently, and I haven’t been able to figure it out yet, and I’ve worked with her for four and a half years, I can’t expect a teacher to figure her out along with thirty other children within the next nine months.


24 posted on 01/04/2010 11:54:30 PM PST by mockingbyrd (Sarah speaks for me!)
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To: ransomnote

I just want to confirm that here in Northern California, there is indeed a push to put kids in daycare or preschool. We have twin 2 yo toddlers, and people are constantly asking not if, but when we plan to put them in preschool. My answer is “Never!” I never went to preschool myself and I see no reason why they need to — and a thousand reasons why they shouldn’t.


25 posted on 01/05/2010 12:26:56 AM PST by Hetty_Fauxvert (PETRAEUS IN 2012 ..... PETRAEUS IN 2012 ..... PETRAEUS IN 2012!)
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To: Cold Heat

Exactly!! Dr. Sowell and Einstein didn’t speak until 3.


26 posted on 01/05/2010 12:31:01 AM PST by Yaelle (thanking G-d for Rush Limbaugh's health)
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To: combat_boots

You mean a reaction to vaccines you got in the military? Um, yeah, it could be. Adults are less fragile than newborns, but enough of that crap in you and it’s bound to cause a reaction.


27 posted on 01/05/2010 12:33:01 AM PST by Yaelle (thanking G-d for Rush Limbaugh's health)
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To: Yaelle

We have a child in our family who is extraordinarily bright at 2yrs. old. He’s a pointer. You can ask him about anything ..names of people, reading story books.. colors and numbers, and he’ll point to every one correctly..but he will not say them. And even Latin letters and numbers!

He does say Mama and Dada and thank you..it’s as though he sees no reason to say these words since an adult is showing them to him in the first place so why repeat them.

I feel too much of an issue is made on how soon children speak....if there are no health issues causing this then let them be...they’ll talk when they are ready.


28 posted on 01/05/2010 1:03:57 AM PST by caww
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To: ransomnote

Kids in our family are sitting in someones lap being read too and looking at pictures from early on. I’ll bet the biggest cause of poor language skills is disinterested parents.


29 posted on 01/05/2010 1:45:01 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: ransomnote

Perhaps these children are not speaking out of complete shock and inability to control even the smallest things in their lives so that they feel completely helpless to change things by speaking up and realize it’s worthless to do so, anyway-—oh, wait, I must be thinking of the mindset of AMERICAN VOTERS>>>>>>


30 posted on 01/05/2010 2:01:40 AM PST by browniexyz
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To: irishtenor

That’s great. My son’s not two yet, and he can say some simple sentences “Hi Daddy” and “Whatchoo doin’?”.

He does watch some TV—well, DVDs mostly. But I’m starting to see the logic in having no TV in the house at all.


31 posted on 01/05/2010 3:28:20 AM PST by Claud
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To: ransomnote
I have three grandkids living with me right now. Girl 1.5, boy 2.5, girl 3.5. They all talk but are sometimes very hard to understand. What's truly amazing is that when they talk to each other they always seem to understand what they are saying. When one of the kids talks to me, I often ask one of the others to “interpret”. Works sometimes.
32 posted on 01/05/2010 6:24:17 AM PST by pappyone (New to Freep, still working a tag line.)
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To: Yaelle

Dennis Prager has said that he was a late talker. His uncle thought he was retarded.


33 posted on 01/05/2010 7:39:56 AM PST by beaversmom
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To: ransomnote

My grand-daughter will be 18 months on Jan 8. she has been taken care of by her mom, and by both her grandmothers when Mom is working.

D-I-L is Columbian and bi-lingual, her mom speaks only Spanish when Elly is with her.

Without a day of day care or any other government sponsored bullcrap - Elly is talking in full sentences already, and doing it in both english and Spanish. If fact she will point to something and say what it is in both languages, and is now teaching Paw-paw and Nana spanish.


34 posted on 01/05/2010 7:44:02 AM PST by commish (Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it.)
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To: ransomnote

I didn’t talk until I was seven, then one day I finally said to my parents during dinner, “I don’t like Spinach.”

Then my parents asked me, “Why did it take you so long to talk,” and I told them, “Well up to now I haven’t had any complaints.”


35 posted on 01/05/2010 7:45:11 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: ransomnote

Great. Now my wife is getting flustered that our 20-month-old isn’t talking yet. Give kids some time before getting bent out of shape about the issue! This little girl clearly understands language well, following complex directions; my guess is she’ll just start talking whole sentences when she’s ready (soon).

Methinks the article is a statistical mess, making a big deal about vague interpretations of poorly collected data. It’s written to instill hysteria.


36 posted on 01/05/2010 7:50:34 AM PST by ctdonath2 (Virtue is to be apologized for. Depravity commands respect. - Galt)
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To: caww

One of my newphews is the same. He is a chatterbox now.


37 posted on 01/05/2010 7:59:06 AM PST by School of Rational Thought (Most interesting man in the world.)
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To: Cold Heat

Going to law school is proof of brain damage.

(Disclosure: I am a lawyer...)

My son is a late talker, too. So was one of my brothers. The other brother spoke in complete sentences at 12 months. Sometimes kids need to be left alone to have their differences.

My son started speaking a whole lot better a month after we broke down and started letting him watch more TV.


39 posted on 01/08/2010 7:08:36 AM PST by ReagansShinyHair
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To: ReagansShinyHair
Going to law school is proof of brain damage.

I can't say I disagree...lol

Actually he really just wants the degree. It was my idea. He plans to go into law enforcement and has a degree in criminal justice. I thought it would help him a lot and open more doors if he had a post grad law degree as well.

He was behind the curve for most of his growing up. He played with younger kids for example.

IIRC, I had some of the same issues as a kid but was forced to grow up by circumstances and being the oldest of three. The boy I am talking about is the youngest of three and he took his time because he did not have to rush.

A bit lazy too....lol

40 posted on 01/08/2010 8:56:21 AM PST by Cold Heat
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