Hello
Again, Mom w/twin Autistic boys. One spells, adds, subtracts, etc... The other still is non verbal.

My question: ANY MOTHERS HAVE 4-6 YEAR OLD NON VERBAL AUTSTIC BOYS WHO END UP SPEAKING LATER IN YEARS AND IF SO, TO WHAT EXTENT.

I had a dream Peter said an entire sentence and woke up gasping with delightment!

VEry worried Mom of five........two w/Autism and one w/BiPolar.

Thanks
CYCYTD? :confused:

I read a story about a girl from Northern England, Ann Hodges, who spoke her first word at about eight years of age. She grew up to a be a bright, accomplished young woman with a keen sense of compassion for other autistic children and adults. Today, she would be 54 years of age. I don't know what became of her, but I am very interested in knowing.

there is always hope, without why go on?:) my step cousin is 11 and didnt start talking until he was 8 and i go to support group with another woman who's son didnt start talking until 8 either, he's not genius level but he gets on fine enough to date:D

my soon to be 5 year old son is non-verbal as well. he only says mamma, sometimes dadda... and then the only time he talks is he will occassionally spit out a word or two and then you never hear them again. my husband and i long ago gave getting excited when he does that. so now we just sit and wait and it's tiring:( but while we wait we work on sign language and PECS (picture exchange system, in case you arent already there and you probably are:))

our ped. told us that albert einstein didnt start talking until he was 4... well, isaac is getting on 5 so i am sick of hearing that one:)

my autistic son was three when he became verbal. I think it was only because we took him to a private speech therapist, Easter Seals speech therapists, and the therapist the school provided in his early childhood intervention (ECI) school.

Hi there, I'm in the same boat! My 5 year old boy is still learning to talk, I am also very worried, It's hard to see his youger brother pass him up when he was only 15 months old. But now that I look back Cadence is making progress. I used to only hear his voice in music, I bought singing signlanguage tapes and all kinds of music, he first learned words not knowing the meanings. He knew the ABC and the sounds each of the letters made when he was two years, he was a lot brighter than most two year olds with a lot of things. But he could never pick up language! When he was 4 I started really working on vocabulary, I would set him on my hip and just name everything I see, I also took pictures of things around the house and Grandmas house and used them like flash cards. His speechtherapist used them as well. It really worked, because now he understand so much more, I now have some language to work with and when I say Cadence - P&J is on kitchen table, he knows and goes to the kitchen!!! I tell him things and he responds with action. Now that I know he understands I enforce it and it is working!!! When he wants something he has to ask for it- cerel please? Then I hold up two different cerels " Life or Cheerios" He always trys to point or take the box he wants but I will be stubbron and sit there until he very quietly says cherio. Twins- yhikes! Try getting someone from respite to help you out with normal stuff like this. Hope your seeing a speach therapist. Thank God you have other children, I learned from them that treating Cadence more normally is the best thing. He knows not to just take what he wants from his two other brothers, They are only 7 and 2, They will show him what for if he trys any funny buisness! I'm curiouse to see how my infant daughter will respond to him! Hope I helped

My son is six he will be 7 in july. I never thought I would hear his voice. When he was 4/5 he had about 6 words that he said on occasion. Now he is saying lots of word some just repetitve Echolalia but every week he seems to be adding a few more to his list. We done a lot of holding back items he loved until he made an attempt to say it.
Hope all goes well and I hope he speaks soon as I know i was very very worried.
Bernadette

My son is 3 and just before he turned two I thought he would start making sounds. He still does not make any sounds except screaming and giggling and he doesn't really communicate. I believe that there is hope that one day I will hear his little voice. My son hasn't picked up on PECS or sign language.