Looking for some advice or just a chat.

My son is 2 years old, he’s not speaking yet, well.. very well, not as much as people are happy with. He’s obsessed with his numbers and letters and knows them off by heart already, which I think is very clever for his age. I’ve been told by a couple of people he makes no eye contact but with me, he does and his nainy all the time, he’s responsive when he wants to be, he’s just pretty brutal with who he wants to pay attention too (selective hearing😂) Everything is very overwhelming and makes me really upset after seeing the health visitor last, only because of his age and I feel like people are trying to put a label on him already 🥺. I’ve been off this app for a while but I just had to jump back on to just speak some other mums🤍

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I haven’t got any advice but I didn’t start talking till I was 3- not a single word my mum said I understood everything but just didn’t talk and now my mouth won’t stop lol, maybe just give him a little bit more time☺️I feel like people are very quick to label children x

My little girl is 2yrs 4 months and is barely speaking. She also has focus issues as well as a couple of other things. We have ongoing support from our SEN team, I have found HV’s can sometimes make things worse with the way they approach things but I feel so much better knowing that we have the support from the SEN team. All they do is visit us and try different ways to approach things she struggled with. There is absolutely no judgement from them and they refuse to label anything when they are so young. I find it really difficult sometimes, but if you as his mum are happy with his development where it is for now then I would pay no attention to what anyone else has to say. No one spends more time with him and knows him better than you 💕

When my son was 1 I was terrified he would have speech delays. He’s 2.5 and is way more advanced in speech that I could ever hope for. It’s gonna sound so simple but narrate everything you do. Everything he looks at verbally explain to him. Every meal, explain it… etc. I am having full conversations with my 2.5 year old

It could just be a speech delay my 4 yr old didn’t really start talking until September of 2023 when she was 3…her speech has exploded since then and she also is in speech therapy and she learned from the other kids in daycare…she was pointing at what she wanted like juice and was able to say a few words before she really started talking…she turns 5 in May…my mom thought she was autistic until the doctor confirmed she was not

Thank you so much girls, put my mind at ease .. my health visitor has told me to give him a couple of months to see if there is any improvement, he’s a very happy little one and I’ve changed his days to 5 in nursery so hopefully that will help more when he see’s other children and starts interacting more. Thank you so much 🤍🤍

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