Nadraszky Family Weblog

Jaiden is about 26 months old now and he still is not talking. It drives us all a little crazy sometimes becasue as we all know he tries to communicate, understands what we say and grunts at us all of the time. The only problem is his absolute lack of verbal communication in the language that we all speak at home...english.

Yesterday we all went to a speech therapist to get some ideas of what we can do to get Jaiden to start talking. It seems that his comprehension is really great for a kid his age and he has his own ways of getting his message across but we learned a few methods to make Jaiden not only know what words to use but to actually verbalize them. Here are a few:

• Use very simple words when we talk to Jaiden and repeat them evertime we get a chance
• When Jaiden wants something make sure that we use the words and say the words in an interesting way so that he notices it and of course keep repeating the words
• Whenever Jaiden points at things say the word that it is and keep repeating it to him and lead him to saying it himself.

I guess we will be busy now teaching Jaiden to talk and should be picking up more pointers during a couple of parent classes later in November