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avamamma
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Re: My Niece...
Hi, I'm sorry to hear this. My DD turned 2 in July and has been talking non-stop for well over a year.
I know how hard it is to handle delicate subjects like this. Could your parents bring it up to your brother maybe??? Maybe you could share your concern directly with your sister in law. I'm sure see regularly sees her pediatrician, wouldn't they have noticed it? Or maybe it is already being addressed, and they haven't told anyone????
Good luck.
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Melbernai
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| Posted 11/23/06 11:16 PM |
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Re: My Niece...
It's very tough. I feel your concern, but don't know what to tell you. What I can say that is at 2 years old, Andrew wasn't saying much at all either. He had a few words and we communicated with him fine, but our pedi had us evaluate him through EI. What I learned through that process is that he was right on target for his age, saying a few words, recognizing things, following simple directions, etc. His report was finalized without needing further speeech therapy, he rated equal to a 3 year old.
6 months later, you can hold conversations with him like he's your equal. Its just amazing the progress. Hopefully this will be the case with your niece. I agree with pp that maybe your parents can mention something. The pedi should also be looking for this, like ours did.
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| Posted 11/23/06 11:18 PM |
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Re: My Niece...
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How much should a 2 year old be saying? Should it still be just random jibberish without real words? I thought she should be putting some words together to make sentences by now.
No. I saw this after I posted. I think I said it in my post above, but in our meeting with the Early Intervention speech therapist, random jibberish and MAYBE a few "2 word phrases" is all that is expected at 2 years old. Some children are above that, some are not. Sentences are not expected.
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| Posted 11/23/06 11:21 PM |
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Re: My Niece...
I'm so sorry. I can understand why you'd be worried.
Sarah was 21 months yesterday. She says a lot of words and some small sentences, but there is still babble mixed in. But for the most part we can understand what she's trying to say.
She doesn't really drool (except when she's imitating Andy but that's different). Maybe your niece is cutting her 2 year molars?
As far as the being alone thing, Sarah likes to play alone at first when people come and it can take a while for her to warm up to some people. The other day it took her almost 2 hours to warm up to FIL, she hadn't seen him in about 1.5 months. But he talks VERY loud and has a kinda deep voice, so I can see how it would be scary.
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MelToddJulia
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Re: My Niece...
Melissa--I know its hard, but I wouldn't worry about it to much if they aren't. I'm sure as there daughter gets older they will see more problems with her, and finally get some help for her. Its tough seeing a child act this way and there parents are in denial about it, but it really is there problem and if they dont want to hear anyone's advice I wouldn't stress over it to much, she seems like she doesn't care what your family says to her anyway. Hopefully she will wake up and see her child needs some help before its to late.
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