r/MadeMeSmile • u/bendubberley_ • 16d ago

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

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u/UserCannotBeVerified 16d ago

Iirc Einstein didn't speak until he was 4 or 5

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u/TributeBands_areSHIT 16d ago

Those are exceptions. Unfortunately most children who are non verbal by 4 require extensive services to catch up.

Rarely are these children just “really shy but fully capable of speech”. It takes WORK to get them to communicate 99% of the time.

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u/ashoka_akira 16d ago

I had a speech impediment as a child and a few years of speech therapy mostly cured it.

My problem is apparently my brain runs at 100/m an hour and my mouth can barely hit 60m/h, so a lot of my therapy was just learning to slow down a bit so my tongue wouldn’t trip over itself.

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u/infiniZii 16d ago

I did speech therapy too! Now no one notices (other than the fact sometimes I structure my thoughts and words oddly). At least what I am saying is clearer than what I mean.