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Silent Vocabulary at 18 months
2007-01-06, 9:58 a.m.

18-month check-up yesterday. Jack is 35" tall and 25lbs, 11oz. Seeing as how he only gained half a pound in 3 months, despite his monsterous appetite, I suspect that he's coming down on the growth charts in terms of weight. He's still tall for his age though, which is fine with me.

As to his language development, which has been of some concern among the family. Not a concern like, "Oh, there's something wrong with him!" but more a "I know you know this, just say it!" thing. He babbles like a wild man, and hears fine, and is very social. He just refuses to speak English, or anything that resembles it. To date, he mimicks 4 words: "Hi," "Why," "Wow" and "Yeah." Only occasionally will he use "Hi" and "Wow" in context." He is extremely talkative, but everything else is gibberish. He knows "mama" and "dada" as they were the first things he ever said, and he knows who we are, but he never calls us by those names. Actually, he doesn't even say them much at all anymore. In general, a universal grunt and point suffices for most things. Well anyway, the doctor says that if in 3 months (and, by the way, we're not going back for another 6 months) he still isn't making any progress he'll send Jack for a evaluation. It won't even matter, though. He's very smart. He knows what things are that I don't think I've ever shown him (i.e., "Tiger" and "Elephant"), and he only needs to be shown how to do things or what new things are called once or twice before he's got it down (i.e., the "truck" that he got for Christmas introduced a new word to his silent vocabulary and the sit-n-spin, he figured out pretty much on his own within a couple of minutes of it being assembled). What will an assessment tell us besides, he's just not doing it? Keep reading to him, don't forget to pay the receptionist on your way out, have a nice day. And, you know, for his age he doesn't even get very frustrated with not being able to communicate. I think the frustration is all on our side.

He's just going to keep watching and learning and then one day go from gibberish to reciting "Ice Age" in its entirity. That's how it's been with everything since he's been born.



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