attentive mother- Re: Has anyone notice this?

[Guest guest]

I work for Early Intervention and our testing standards say that kids

should be making consonant/vowel combos like " mama " and " dada " by 6-8

months.

Melinda C. in Mass.

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> Six months???

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> attentive mother- Re: Has anyone notice

this?

> Vaccinations

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> > How funny, I was just sharing today with someone about how maybe

> > some

> > kids don't talk because sometimes we are so intune with what

> > they

> > need that we understand them etc.

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> > Not saying that others aren't. It's just that I've noticed that

> > some

> > kids don't seem the need to talk until later. While other kids

> > are

> > more vocal and even like to hear themselves babble.

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> > My children even though they don't talk until later do

> > understand

> > very well. To well I think sometimes LOL>

> >

> > I was shocked when at one 6 month appointment the Ped asked if

> > my

> > child was speaking yet? I thought he was joking. He wasn't. Just

> > checking he said because some start talking early.

> >

> > Diane

> >

> > > My twins didn't speak mostly but had excellent receptive

> > language

> > before 24months old. I

> > > had them evaluated at 18months b/c they didn't talk. I was

> > told

> > that ALL of their needs were

> > > eagerly anticipated by an attentive mother (me) and that they

> > had

> > absolutely no reason to

> > > speak up. They had everything they needed/wanted/could dream

> > of

> > having prior to having to

> > > scream/cry/beg for attention to get it.

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