I've always worked with my kids. I do much more than any of the so called preschools/daycare centers do that I have worked in and more than most of the home daycare providers that I know. But for the babies who don't want to talk, I haven't found a way to 'make' them talk. Now we are required to evaluate the kids and if they don't 'make the grade', we are supposed to suggest that they go to a special program. I don't believe there's anything wrong with this particular child. She just doesn't have the desire to say much. She can speak. She's 16 months old. She makes baby mumbling nonsense words all day long. She says 'momma', dadda', and 'bye' all the time. But you literally have to force her to say other words. Yesterday, it took me quite some time to get her to say the word, 'diaper'. But she could say it. She just didn't care to. So, if you have a child who can speak, but simply doesn't want to, how do you get them to talk more?
Typically, I tell parents that when the child is ready, they'll start saying all kinds of words. And each child that I've said that about, one day, just starts talking away saying every word under the sun! But now that we are required to evaluate the children and suggest the special needs speech therapist to parents if their child doesn't score high enough, all it's doing is upsetting all of the parents! I had decided simply not to suggest the special needs program. But now I'm finding out from the parents that the pediatricians are required to administer the same evaluation on the children at each doctor visit. And of course the doctors ARE telling the parents that their children are 'behind' and need to go to the special needs therapist. Then the parents (even if I haven't evaluated the child yet therefore I haven't neglected to suggest the therapist) come to me all upset about the doctor telling them that their child is 'slow'. My one mother told me that she took her child to the doctor's this past Friday and was diagnosed as 'slow' and she has been upset about it and can't really sleep since then! She told me and she said that she told her daughter's doctor that her older child didn't say much until she was about 2 1/2 and then all of the sudden, she started saying all sorts of words. The child is 8 years old now and has never had any learning disabilities or anything. She's a perfectly normal kid. She just didn't feel like talking until she was 2 1/2. Now because of this evaluation the doctor did (that we are also supposed to do), the mother is upset, concerned, confused, and mad (at the evaluation) regarding her baby.
So, I was hoping to get the baby to start saying words so that at her next doctor appointment, the evaluation would go better. But I don't know how to 'make' a baby (16 month old) speak when they don't want to. I know she CAN say words, she just doesn't WANT to say them.
I do activities with her (all the kids). I play games with them, I do circle time, sing, dance, sing the alphabet, discuss the colors of the toys, grass, outdoor equipment, everything, I talk to them throughout the day, hold each child individually and talk with them personally about their day, count their fingers, talk about their eyes, nose, etc. I discuss the steps of changing their diaper with them. I read books to them and discuss the books. We color and paint and I discuss the colors and what they are coloring or painting. I talk to them a lot throughout the day, but this baby and many others that I have had at her age simply don't want to talk. I've never been worried about it until now since the doctors are telling parents that their babies are 'behind' and 'slow' simply because they won't say the required amount of words.
I show her items, get excited about them, and repeat the name of it over and over again. I get the other kids to repeat the name of it. I say things like, "What's that? Is that a ball? Get the ball. Yeah! You got the ball, say 'ball'". She just won't say the words. Any ideas on how to get her and other babies that I might get in the future that are like this to talk?
Typically, I tell parents that when the child is ready, they'll start saying all kinds of words. And each child that I've said that about, one day, just starts talking away saying every word under the sun! But now that we are required to evaluate the children and suggest the special needs speech therapist to parents if their child doesn't score high enough, all it's doing is upsetting all of the parents! I had decided simply not to suggest the special needs program. But now I'm finding out from the parents that the pediatricians are required to administer the same evaluation on the children at each doctor visit. And of course the doctors ARE telling the parents that their children are 'behind' and need to go to the special needs therapist. Then the parents (even if I haven't evaluated the child yet therefore I haven't neglected to suggest the therapist) come to me all upset about the doctor telling them that their child is 'slow'. My one mother told me that she took her child to the doctor's this past Friday and was diagnosed as 'slow' and she has been upset about it and can't really sleep since then! She told me and she said that she told her daughter's doctor that her older child didn't say much until she was about 2 1/2 and then all of the sudden, she started saying all sorts of words. The child is 8 years old now and has never had any learning disabilities or anything. She's a perfectly normal kid. She just didn't feel like talking until she was 2 1/2. Now because of this evaluation the doctor did (that we are also supposed to do), the mother is upset, concerned, confused, and mad (at the evaluation) regarding her baby.
So, I was hoping to get the baby to start saying words so that at her next doctor appointment, the evaluation would go better. But I don't know how to 'make' a baby (16 month old) speak when they don't want to. I know she CAN say words, she just doesn't WANT to say them.
I do activities with her (all the kids). I play games with them, I do circle time, sing, dance, sing the alphabet, discuss the colors of the toys, grass, outdoor equipment, everything, I talk to them throughout the day, hold each child individually and talk with them personally about their day, count their fingers, talk about their eyes, nose, etc. I discuss the steps of changing their diaper with them. I read books to them and discuss the books. We color and paint and I discuss the colors and what they are coloring or painting. I talk to them a lot throughout the day, but this baby and many others that I have had at her age simply don't want to talk. I've never been worried about it until now since the doctors are telling parents that their babies are 'behind' and 'slow' simply because they won't say the required amount of words.
I show her items, get excited about them, and repeat the name of it over and over again. I get the other kids to repeat the name of it. I say things like, "What's that? Is that a ball? Get the ball. Yeah! You got the ball, say 'ball'". She just won't say the words. Any ideas on how to get her and other babies that I might get in the future that are like this to talk?
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