Autistic non-verbal boy speaks directly to his mother for the first time.

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Development is a weird thing, kids get to things at wildly different paces sometimes, and still mostly turn out perfectly capable adults. Lotta variation in humans.

[u/friendliest_sheep → u/Kneef]

I had friend whose baby was taught sign and English, parallel. This kid never spoke a word, didn’t really make much noise, but from like 2 and up could sign as perfectly as you’d expect a kid that age to and that was how he communicated. Then one day between 4-5, he just started speaking, perfectly (for a five year old), out of nowhere; so naturally, like he hadn’t been this silent the whole time.

[u/Inevitable-Ad3655 → u/friendliest_sheep]

Yep my son too