My daughter was nonverbal until she was 4. She would occasionally make sounds similar to words. One day I was home from work on lunch break, I worked 5 minutes away and would come home for lunch to save money.
I was leaving to head back to work, kissed my wife and then my daughter who was sitting in a high chair also having lunch. I told her "bye, I love you!".
She replied with a crystal clear perfect "I love you" back.
The reaction from my wife and I was similar to this mom. Hearing her speak at all, let alone telling me she loves me, is one of my strongest memories now. I remember it often and this video brought back all the emotions.
My 2.5 year old is still non verbal. I was literally crying last night wondering if I'd ever hear him say those words to me. Now I'm crying again at your story. Happy for you. Hearing you and all the other stories in this thread of nonverbal kids speaking is really comforting. Thank you.
Have you checked out a pod cast called “The Telepathy Tapes” on Spotify? It’s about non verbal and other autistic children communicating with their parents using different forms of speech therapy and other new alternative techniques (I.e. spelling). I highly encourage everyone to check it out as I think it helps to broaden our understanding of what communication is possible with non verbal autistic children.
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u/mistiry 16d ago
My daughter was nonverbal until she was 4. She would occasionally make sounds similar to words. One day I was home from work on lunch break, I worked 5 minutes away and would come home for lunch to save money.
I was leaving to head back to work, kissed my wife and then my daughter who was sitting in a high chair also having lunch. I told her "bye, I love you!".
She replied with a crystal clear perfect "I love you" back.
The reaction from my wife and I was similar to this mom. Hearing her speak at all, let alone telling me she loves me, is one of my strongest memories now. I remember it often and this video brought back all the emotions.