Debating EI for Jude
(I'm posting some posts that I had originally put up at the IVP. I thought it would be a good idea to keep track of Jude's words and when he could do what)
I keep going back and forth about whether to sign Jude up for an early intervention assesment. I know boys are supposed to be late(r) talkers, but Jude really isn't saying much at all. Also, everything that he DOES say, he's been saying for 2ish months with no more added.
I did some brainstorming and this is what I came up with. I thought maybe if I wrote them all down there would be more than I thought, but it didn't really work out that way. At our house "ba" requires context clues.
Ba (ball)
Ba (bottle)
Ba (binky)
Ba (bowl)
Ba (bar = fruit bar)
Bye
Boo (spoon)
Aff (Woof = dog)
A (cat)
Nuh nuh nuh nuh (no)
Mmmmmmmmm (if something is tasty)
He's 16 months right now. I'm guessing if I signed him up, an assessment might not happen until 18 months?? Do these things usually take a while?
I'll read one thing that says he should be using 10 or 20 or even 50 words by now (although that seems like a lot). Then I read something else that suggests that he should have "at least one word." The website of Ohio's EI program "Help Me Grow" is one of the places that says at least one word by 15 months. This leads me to believe that he wouldn't qualify anyway. I looked to see what they said about 18 months and all I could find was "Begins to use words to make his wants known."
His receptive language seems fine.
I keep going back and forth about whether to sign Jude up for an early intervention assesment. I know boys are supposed to be late(r) talkers, but Jude really isn't saying much at all. Also, everything that he DOES say, he's been saying for 2ish months with no more added.
I did some brainstorming and this is what I came up with. I thought maybe if I wrote them all down there would be more than I thought, but it didn't really work out that way. At our house "ba" requires context clues.
Ba (ball)
Ba (bottle)
Ba (binky)
Ba (bowl)
Ba (bar = fruit bar)
Bye
Boo (spoon)
Aff (Woof = dog)
A (cat)
Nuh nuh nuh nuh (no)
Mmmmmmmmm (if something is tasty)
He's 16 months right now. I'm guessing if I signed him up, an assessment might not happen until 18 months?? Do these things usually take a while?
I'll read one thing that says he should be using 10 or 20 or even 50 words by now (although that seems like a lot). Then I read something else that suggests that he should have "at least one word." The website of Ohio's EI program "Help Me Grow" is one of the places that says at least one word by 15 months. This leads me to believe that he wouldn't qualify anyway. I looked to see what they said about 18 months and all I could find was "Begins to use words to make his wants known."
His receptive language seems fine.