Speech Therapy Videos or Learning Language

One of the areas that our son was delayed in was speech. He just didn't babble like other babies. I mean he seemed to understand us, but he wasn't making any sounds. So we decided to find some aids to help him discover sound. One example were -

Baby Babble DVD's 

 

These were great because they focused on the basics of phonetic sounds. They would do a letter and show an object that a baby should be familiar with and emphasize the sound. We used to play these over and over again. I sometimes wonder if things like this are why he is kind of focused on letters, and now words. But I think they really helped with his early speech development, and are something that even a normal/typical baby could benefit from.

Another set of videos that are beneficial to babies and toddlers are -

Baby Signing Time

These can be good for children who may have difficulty in speaking or are just not ready to. Plus they can learn basic american sign language. Something for parents and baby to watch together. 

Also something that our son first used before he could fully talk was something that one of his aids suggested.

PECS ( Picture Exchange System)

These are basically small pictures that a child can either choose from a sampling of activites or items that they do not have the words to express. When our son wanted something it was easy for him to hand us the little picture of a cup of milk than pointing in a vague way and us not knowing just what he wanted.

 

I hope that all of these suggestions may help your child transition into speaking or at least making it easier for them to communicate with you. 

Introduction to me and my blog

I don't know whether it had to do with the fact that in the womb my son yanked, and pulled at his umbilical cord or the few minutes that he was blue at his birth; but my son was delayed.  We didn't notice anything major until he missed milestones that other babies were making such, as crawling, and babbling, etc.  We tried doing research online, and found something called Early Intervention . We soon set up and appointment to have them evaluate our son, and he started to get services to help him catch up a little to where he should be before starting pre-school. I do remember a couple of the aids that came to our home had mentioned that they thought he was very smart child, but they thought that he was Autistic in his behaviours.  We got a recommendation from one of these aids to get him diagnosed by a Behavioural Pediatrician in our area.  Upon going to this appointment we discovered that our child was diagnosed as having PDD-NoS( Pervasive Developmental Disorder- Not Otherwise Specified); this basically meant that he had some of the symptoms and behaviours of a child in the Autism Spectrum, but still seemed like a typical child. We found a book about this diagnosis here -   this was one of the best books that we had come across while doing research about it. I rated this book 5 stars on goodreads.com It answered a lot of questions that we had and gave us some hope for our son.

The main reason I wanted to write this blog was so that others who may be experiencing the same thing have a resource of their own; and so that I can share with others just what it is like so that maybe people can feel some compassion for children in the Autism Spectrum.