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For 6 years, almost every night, I would dream that Abdullah started talking and finally one day he did....

When your child is talking and expressing his feelings and needs, it is a blessing. But with special needs that is not the case. We celebrate our smallest successes that are not even realized in normal world. Talking, eating every food, realizing potential danger, chewing on food are just a few examples. I realized that when Abdullah did not spoke for 6 years. He babbled and stimmed but was unable to talk.

It was a dream that one day he will talk. His speech therapist once said that Abdullah said" ch" for chips, but he didn't said that once in front of me. I thought she is just making up or confusing some other sounds with "ch".

We started PECS with Abdullah, he started communicating by exchanging pictures.  He understood that by giving a specific picture card i will be able to get that thing. It was a small but a strong step towards communication. I brought him loads of books with pictures and he started building his receptive language. Every time, He would walk to me, would point to a picture and I used to tell him the name of that object, 50 times a day.

Slowly, Abdullah started speaking unclear words. I used to watch him as he sat alone and started producing some phonics of nursery rhymes. I used to make a list of Alphabets, whose sounds he could produce and then I made flash cards of objects starting with those letters.

The words were unclear and he usually could not pronounce some phonics. I had to break the words in to syllables and then tell him slowly.

Abdullah used to say the word repeatedly until he could be able to produce it correctly. That was the strength he had and it benefited him as a learner and me as a teacher.

Today, Abdullah is able to speak with clarity, he can relate things correctly but the reciprocity in communication is still missing. He can say difficult words by breaking them in syllables.

Do not be disappointed by the pace with which your child is making progress. He is trying, coping and pushing himself to overcome the difficulties he is facing. Being parents, it is our foremost duty to help our children in whatever way we can, respecting their pace and growth.

 

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