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[Chris-duck]

@tryingtocope18 Thats a really good idea actually. I can understand him and so can his mum and siblings but nobody else can and he's a really sociable kid. I know basic sign language so I'll try teaching him that and seeing if it helps any :) thanks

 

[TTC18]

@tryingtocope18 Thats a really good idea actually.

Oh good! I had a speech impediment when I was a kid - endless hours of speech therapy mostly wiped it out, but it kept me from wanting to talk a lot when I was little. I used signs with my kids before they could talk well, and found signs *really* helped ward off frustration. There's nothing like having something to say, but not being able to say it - it upsets ME, and I'm a grown up, lol.

 

[Chris-duck]

@tryingtocope18 i had a mild one, I went to speech therapy but I never had an issue making myself understood, so it's not the same really. I'll try teach him some, at least the basics so he can ask people for things he needs and see if it helps any :) thanks!

 

[Ronin]

sign language?

That, or pictures, or having something as items (toys, or something that can be destroyed and replaced until he learns to modulate a bit and that a ha, frustration can be managed some way)? Or something he could have as a sign item that he is distressed (like a kind of: Angry, Not met needs, someone help, blip, need you to help oout adult world)?

(Since thinking if it is just the distress and communicating.... or communicating THAT he is distressed AND what about, or communicating at all WHEN in distress.... three different areas and issues)

 

[Chris-duck]

It tends to be when he's trying to talk to someone that isn't me or his siblings and they don't understand him. But he can't make himself understood. Like if we're visiting and he asks to play outside or asks where I am or something and they don't answer cos they dunno what he's needing.

 

[Ronin]

Yeah, I would probably head for something like images and pic cards that is clear enough to both the kid and adults around and can communicate needs shortly. Signs as pics convey that better than signs as sign language since that sort of assumes prior familiarness with the sign system.

Alongside teaching him not being understood may be okay, and he will be able to get there later, but that would depend how he is with frustration tolerance and the concept of time, but something to consider? That things not working out now do not have to lead to a meltdown, and minimize from that angle.

 

[Chris-duck]

Thanks :) I'll give all this a try and hopefully something helps him!

 

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