Late-Talking Children and ADD/HD | ADHD Information
My six year-old step-daughter spoke very early. By age three, she spoke full sentences and had the vocab. of a five year old. This, I believe, has caused people to treat her older, and it frustrates them when her behavoir doesn't match her verbal maturity. She was diagnosed three months ago with ADHD.I understand Reizende. I am sure everything will work out fine for you. Good luck with the Clarocet.
ketan1y
Your son sound extremely intellegent too. My daughter and I are bilingual too.
[QUOTE=Ivil_Ivette] My daughter and I are bilingual too. [/QUOTE]Ivette, you wouldn't happen to be from Puerto Rico would you? I know its a small world, but just checking to see if I know you 8) I know an Ivette with a bilingual daughter too. They live in the US now in Florida.
Reizende38438.4393171296
I didn't start speaking at all until age three and a half, and that was, if I remember correctly, mostly "yes" and "no" types of responses. I was diagnosed autistic at around that time, or a bit later.
One day at about age four or so, I started to talk in sentences. I began speaking by trying to read aloud, from memory, the books my mom always read to me. I would recognize some of the words from mom trying to show me the letters and how to say them, and knew I was reading them, but some I just kind of made up to make the story go where I knew it should. I was trying to read to another child at the time, and continued to try and do so until I actually, with my mom's help, knew how to read.
Knowing how to read before I started school made things kind of difficult for me, and is probably one of the originators of my ADD patterns, along with chemical and stress stuff. I was bored out of my brain when the teacher was teaching reading, and the "Dick and Jane" stuff was so simple I couldn't keep any interest in it. The teacher gave me other books to read to keep me focused and less bummed about school, and that helped some, but then I would just read those, and was a little bit separated from everyone else and what they were doing. That can be strange for a little kid who is trying to find where he fits into a social situation.
Oh, and the doctors, when I started talking more, and relating to others more, retracted the "autism" diagnosis. I think that was a little bit before ADD was ever really part of the diagnostic vernacular, at least where I lived in the mid seventies.
My son was bi lingual and spoke and translated btetween both languages from 18 month onNo, no medication but I am gonna try to take Clarocet and see if that helps me. I cannot sit still, I am constantly bored & life seems dull. The only thing that can hold my attention long enough is my artwork or craft projcets but after a time I will get bored and switch off projects.
Reizende,
Have you thought about visiting a doctor?
As a understand Clarocet works by increasing the levels of dopamine, I'm sleepy right now, but I think high production of dopamine can also cause hyperactivity. Anyways, just be kind to your body. It is never safe to diagnose and medicate oneself without proper medical knowledge. Just take care of yourself. Keep in mind that many other quemical imbalances and/or reactions to life-experiences can also appear as ADHD sympthoms. You are a very bright individual. Don't do anything that can negatively alter your bright, beutiful, creative mind. There are only few left in the world.
Clarocet is an herbel formula so I figured it couldn't hurt to try it. As for the seeing a doctor thing..its a long story..but my history of getting bored with guys and the many breakups has left me in financial ruin. Basically I have no health insurance right now. Even though my paychecks are very nice.*For the purpose of this poll, begining speech is a vocabulary of 50 words or more.
For those of you that don't know me, my name is Ivette. Both my six-year old daughter and have Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). Also, we both were "late talkers" (at 4 years old, we had the normal vocabulary of a 2 year-old toddler).
Normal Pattern of Speech Development
Published by the AmericanAcadamy of Family Physicians, June 1999 http://www.aafp.org/afp/990600ap/3121.html.
22 to 24 months Vocabulary >50 words; two-word phrases; dropping out of jargon; 60% to 70% of speech understood by strangers 2 to 2 1/2 years Vocabulary of 400 words, including names; two- to three-word phrases; use of pronouns; diminishing echolalia; 75% of speech understood by strangers 2 1/2 to 3 years Use of plurals and past tense; knows age and sex; counts three objects correctly; three to five words per sentence; 80% to 90% of speech understood by strangers 3 to 4 years Three to six words per sentence; asks questions, converses, relates experiences, tells stories; almost all speech understood by strangers
Ivil_Ivette38438.3069560185I was talking at 9 months and using full sentences by the time I reached pre-school. I taught myself to read when I was 4. I loved the pictures in the books. ;) Visual stimulus has always helped me excel in anything.WOW Reizende, you sound quite intellegent!
I hope you realize that that giftedness is often misconstrued as ADHD (they may also appear as one). Are you currently under medication to treat Attention Deficit Disorder?
Stepmom,
sounds to me like she might be gifted. I have two daughters, one with ADD and possible dyslexia and another one with an extreme high IQ. She is getting ready to enter the school district's gifted program next year. Gifted children are very special ...mine was having problems at school because she couldn't relate to the other children since her maturity level was higher, and she tends to test and question people like she is an 18 year old. Yeah, sometimes is easy to forget that she is only 7. Is fun to live with a little person who wakes up earlier than me to watch the local news
. I wake up and she is already dressed, sitting on the table eating breakfast and watching CNN. "Mommy you should grab an umbrella, there is a %60 percent chance of rain showers today"
ketan1y
Your son sound extremely intellegent too. My daughter and I are bilingual too.
[/QUOTE]He is! He is picking up spanish so quickly! But more than his intelligence, I admire his spirituality and perceptiveness. He knows what I am feeling and is so intuned to those around him I am constantly surprised by his insight and grasp of social situations. I often find him easier to talk to than most adults. We have started playing chess together. I have so much fun with him one on one!
Ivil_Ivette
My step-daughter is extremely intelligent. However, her behavoir has kept her out of the G/T program. I feel that her class is too boring for her, and that contributes to her behavoir. It is just such a viscious cycle because I know she needs to be challenged, but she can't handle the classroom. Ironically, it is the talking that gets her in the most trouble. It just isn't fair to the other students to be disrupted by her. I try to challenge her more at home instead.
The kids I have seen who talked after age2 have a autism diagnoses.Foreign languages are best learned at young ages. our son has a high IQ even though struggles at school.I don't recall about myself although I am pretty sure I was talking before age 2. My son who is 9 was talking by 15 months and in sentences by 18 months. He hasn't stopped since. He used to even hum while he was eating. He has ADHD combined type like his Mom.
My daughter age 5 was also a very early talker. I even had people comment about her precociousness (is that a word?). She has just recently been diagnosed Bipolar we are still trying different meds. She may also be ADHD.