Reggie Bautista wrote:
>
> Matthew Bos wrote:
> >I have only read _Late Talking Children_ . Awesome book. I read it
> >because I was a late talker. I started around the age of five. It freaked
> >my parents out because when I started talking, it was only in complete
> >sentences. (That and I could read at the fifth grade level).
>
> My wife started talking late. She hadn't said anything at all, and then one
> day she walked into the kitchen where her mother was making lunch, walked
> over to the refrigerator, put her and on it, and said, "refrigerator." She
> then turned around and walked out of the room. She started talking a lot
> right afterwards.
>
> She always read well above her grade level in school. Is there a
> correlation between that and starting to talk late?
Many bright children who talk late read above grade level throughout
school. Some bright children who talk late can read and comprehend what
they're reading before they're really talking. At least, this is one of
the things I gathered from reading _The Einstein Syndrome_, which takes
data from 2 studies on late-talking children, most of them bright and
without later problems (except various problems related to being bright,
not late-talking).
Sammy's not really talking, and the pediatrician was mildly concerned at
the 18-month checkup, and I figure he's going to be even more so at the
2-year checkup; but one of my mother's brothers and Dan's father both
didn't talk until they were 3, and they turned out fine, so I figure
things will turn out fine in the long run. It was recommended to me that
I read Sowell's book on late talkers, and well, he has 2, so I bought and
read the one the bookstore had in stock. :) (One thing that has me a lot
less concerned is that children who just happen to talk late without other
problems usually show understanding of what's said to them, and Sammy is
demonstrating comprehension of a fair bit of what he's told, and is good
at answering some questions non-verbally.)
Julia
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