[extropy-chat] Parenting: Late Talkers

[Paul Grant]

I didn't start talking until I was 3 or 4;
my parents kid around about it :) "he didn't start
talking until he was 3, and now he won't shut up :)"
I wouldn't worry overly much about it.

omard-out


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 (1/22/04 22:10) Karen Rand Smigrodzki <Karen at smigrodzki.org> wrote:

>My fraternal twin nephews are now 26 months old, and they have yet to 
>talk. His mom is a doctor, so kids health checks fine. However, they 
>are worried parents. Information I have gathered informs that Einstein 
>didn't talk until he was 3 years old and that not talking until one is 
>three is not that uncommon. Anyone here have that experience with their

>kids or themselves?
>


Some kids talk late, it seems. We have close friends whose younger child
didn't really start talking until 30 months, and until he was 4, really
only spoke in barely-intelligible babble even then. This was a matter of
some concern for them, since their elder son spoke his first words early
and didn't stop. Ever. The younger son had completely caught up with his
peers by age 6. He also demonstrated an above average physical aptitude
- my nickname for him was "the monkey," since he was often found
climbing anything he could get a grip on. 

I think there is ample evidence that kids develop really differently,
both physically and mentally. Although, I think there is also ample
evidence that parents develop pretty uniformly, that is to say,
nervously. ;)


B

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