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| Parents of Twin Toddlers |
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Hello,
The most chellenging thing that I am dealing with these days is the fact that my son, Gabriel (26 months), has a severe speech delay. In fact, his overall expressive language skills are quite delayed. His brother Gregory, in stark contrast, is a little chattering parrot, repeating everything we say all day long.
Early Intervention (EI) has been working with Gabriel since May and I have seen very little improvement. This week a speech therapist from EI will starting working with us. I hope it helps. It's very frustrating for everyone in the family that Gabriel does not talk or express his needs very well. He knows quite a bit of sign language (about 30 words), but seldom uses it.
Is anyone here experiencing anything similar?
-Kathy |
| Posted by Kathy on 10/09/2007 06:11 PM
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UMM Yeah....
My girls are 23 months now and don't speak either. They say maybe about 10 words. It's pretty normal for twins to not speak as quickly as singletons. My girls usually just whine, and point for whatever they want or don't want. Maybe because I understand them most of the time, they don't feel it's necessary to speak yet. I'm trying to get them out as much as I can by taking them to the park, mall, etc to get them socialized with toddlers their own age who have a vocabulary and use it. We don't have family or friends with children in the area. I'm still trying to get some playgroups together with this site.
Maybe my girls will catch on that if they speak to me, I will understand them faster. people always tell me (be happy they don't talk yet...when they start talking they probably won't ever be shut up) well....I think I'd rather know what they want instead of playing this guessing game everyday. |
| posted by Carla on 10/09/2007 09:02 PM
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My boys are about 34 months now and while one has been talking since he was about 20 mos the other has just started really talking. My doctor says it is normal in multiples too so I would not worry too much. However I did notice a huge difference when we started going to a small play group of about 7 kids. Since then we have moved and the play groups here are really big (20-25 kids) and I have found that they kind of lose themselves in the chaos and tend to either play alone or with each other. So.... I am looking for a smaller more connected playgroup where they can interact more.
Anyway that is what helped me not only with their communication but interacting too (one was very shy)
good luck! |
| posted by Jackie on 10/10/2007 07:44 AM
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Does anyone know why this is so common among twins?
There are very distinct personality differences between my sons. One is very outgoing and enjoys the attention he gets from talking, while the non-verbal one likes to play alone and is really only interested in the attention he gets from being able to identify letters, numbers, shapes, colors, etc. In our case, it seems that these differences explain much of this huge discrepancy between their levels of expressive communication. I am hoping as we begin working with the speech therapist that we can find ways to make talking as exciting for Gabriel as letters and numbers are for him. |
| posted by Kathy on 10/10/2007 11:04 AM
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