That's her learning to use AND in her short sentences.
I admit. One of the things that I take for granted is the speech and language development of my neurotypical children. For my special daughter, we have to make extra efforts by sending her to therapies. In my interactions with her, I have to also me mindful of her special needs. I try doing it by demonstrating, prodding, encouraging, repeating, in every chance I get. I have no idea how difficult it is for her to verbalize, or if she simply chooses the easy way (by giving up verbalizing). I do know, though, that she needs more than what she gets now. NEED, not WANT. I do hope the little therapy we can afford for her still does help her improve her speech and language development.
Lately I frequently catch her playing pretend with her dolls: Dora and Boots, Owl, Monyet, Tiger, and the gang. She seems contented spending her time playing like that by herself. Happy and Safe. I didn't know the importance of pretend plays in the growth and development of children. Alhamdulillah for the dolls, time, space and peace we enjoy.. Things we always forget to appreciate, until any one of them is gone :-)
And I also notice that she initiates conversations too sometimes. This is an important development of her social skills. More importantly, is that she can verbalize (in her own cute way) what she needs when she has to. But when she is panicking (and she gets panicky a lot now that she is more aware of the "structured views" of her surrounding), she forgets her words, and I need to calmly but quickly help her find them. She still has a long way, i think, to go in developing the skill to tell stories. This is important for parents to have the children being able to tell them what happened when the parents were not around. What/who/when/how. We are working on it. Slowly but surely inshaAllah.
May Allah Help us.
And may Allah Bless the people who help us near and far.
And may Allah Return their kindness with even greater goodness.
InshaAllah.
I admit. One of the things that I take for granted is the speech and language development of my neurotypical children. For my special daughter, we have to make extra efforts by sending her to therapies. In my interactions with her, I have to also me mindful of her special needs. I try doing it by demonstrating, prodding, encouraging, repeating, in every chance I get. I have no idea how difficult it is for her to verbalize, or if she simply chooses the easy way (by giving up verbalizing). I do know, though, that she needs more than what she gets now. NEED, not WANT. I do hope the little therapy we can afford for her still does help her improve her speech and language development.
Lately I frequently catch her playing pretend with her dolls: Dora and Boots, Owl, Monyet, Tiger, and the gang. She seems contented spending her time playing like that by herself. Happy and Safe. I didn't know the importance of pretend plays in the growth and development of children. Alhamdulillah for the dolls, time, space and peace we enjoy.. Things we always forget to appreciate, until any one of them is gone :-)
And I also notice that she initiates conversations too sometimes. This is an important development of her social skills. More importantly, is that she can verbalize (in her own cute way) what she needs when she has to. But when she is panicking (and she gets panicky a lot now that she is more aware of the "structured views" of her surrounding), she forgets her words, and I need to calmly but quickly help her find them. She still has a long way, i think, to go in developing the skill to tell stories. This is important for parents to have the children being able to tell them what happened when the parents were not around. What/who/when/how. We are working on it. Slowly but surely inshaAllah.
May Allah Help us.
And may Allah Bless the people who help us near and far.
And may Allah Return their kindness with even greater goodness.
InshaAllah.
