Re: The Late Talker

[Guest guest]

I've had my copy of The Late Talker now for two weeks and haven't

been able to read it as I've lent it out to one of 's speech

therapists over at Cal State Fullerton. She loved it (read it cover

to cover) and said she is recommending it to everyone there at the

college. Maybe we will have a new batch of new speech therapists

that will be more savvy in regards to Apraxia.... 's other

speech therapist (the one at The ish Rite) wants to borrow it

too, but I have to read it first....

Jill - Mom to 41 months with Hypotonia & expressive/receptive

speech delays (Dyspraxia).

> Hi everyone...I ordered the book " The Late Talker " and it just

came

> in. I can hardly wait to read it!

[Guest guest]

Hi Lauri and welcome!

Thanks for your kinds words about the book I co authored with

Tanner's neurodevelopmental pediatrician Marilyn Agin MD, and

International journalist Malcolm Nicholl. The Late Talker is a hard

book for me to read myself because you all have no idea how much I

wish I could switch places and be the one that could have read it and

learned from it early to help Tanner way back then vs. being the one that had to

learn it myself

the hard way wasting valuable time for Tanner. As you may notice I'm kind of

used to it by now when

it comes to Tanner as he grows older! (see school age post)

About hair pulling. You may be new to the group but I always like

to remind people that many of the problems we look at as abnormal -

are perfectly normal developmentally. In addition -since some of

our children may have global delays developmentally -don't be

surprised when they go through a stage a bit later than others do.

Like hair pulling. It is a problem that many parents deal with. My

husband Glenn and I are both from the school of thought that speech

impairment or no speech impairment -some forms of " communication "

are unacceptable. Hurting others/hair pulling -was one of them.

Here is an article on why children may pull hair

" Yanking on hair, like kicking, biting, pinching, and hitting, is

one of the ways toddlers express themselves and try to exert control

over their immediate environment. Mark W. , professor of

clinical psychology at Idaho State University, says there are three

main reasons for this behavior. For young toddlers (12 to 18

months), the most likely explanation is the simplest one: They've

discovered how to get a reaction, and they want to get it

again. " It's like turning on a light switch, or hitting one of those

toys where something pops up, " says. " They pull, big brother

squeals. This is fun. " Another reason toddlers pull hair,

says, is " to make bad things go away. Someone's crawling over them

or taking their toys; they reach out and pull hair, and the bad

thing stops. " Finally, says, older toddlers (2 to 3) are

developing the cognitive skills to reason things out, and may pull

hair to try to control the direction of a situation. "

http://www.babycenter.com/refcap/toddler/toddlerbehavior/11553.html

And yes you are correct -for our kids there would be four reasons -

and... number one would probably be frustration! (also known as

Chapter nine!)

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