When My Son Speaks

re: When My Son Speaks

Megg — Wed, 07 May 2008 03:36:47 GMT

I love that he sounds like Fat Albert and Louis Armstrong!

re: When My Son Speaks

TheFosters — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:28:04 GMT

Hey, Joanna! Good to see...ummm...read you here. And oh yes, I remember that CED class all too painfully. I have nightmares where I'm forced to read poorly written draft textbook chapters.

Thanks for the congrats!

re: When My Son Speaks

Joanna T. — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:15:07 GMT

Darrow - my friend Jane Roper writes a blog for Babble (see "Baby Squared"), and I when I was checking her blog yesterday I noticed yours. I went to school with you - we had that horrible Community Economic Development class together, remember?! Anyway I just wanted to say congratulations on your son and it's great to hear some of what you've been up to.

re: When My Son Speaks

Melissa — Sat, 03 May 2008 15:20:17 GMT

I think nowadays all so worried about autism that if the kid isn't saying words at a year old, we think something is wrong. My son is 15 months old and he only has a few barely-recognizable words. He understands more than he can say, this I know. And I do believe he is trying to say things, it's just that all the complicated brain connections that separate us from our primate cousins haven't finished connecting yet.

re: When My Son Speaks

chyna823 — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:53:53 GMT

I love that "babble" phase, when they're chattering out syllables that have all the inflections and patterns of language without the *actual* language part. If he's doing that, the words are going to be spilling out in no time. The important thing is that he's attempting to communicate, and being communicated to.

I'm not a psych expert by trade, but I've seen a lot of kids do what Psychmum was talking about--they lie in wait, not really saying any intelligible words, and then suddenly they go from single words to 5-word sentences. It's truly an amazing thing.