OMG!!! I had my first conversation w/...

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OMG!!! I had my first conversation w/...
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Mon, 10-30-2006 - 10:42am

DD last night!!! DD is PDD-NOs with a pretty significant language delay. she will be 4 in February but has made a lot of progress in the last year..

so yesterday we are hanging out in the family room and she comes up to me and has in her hand a yogurt. So the CONVERSATION went like this

DD- Yogurt?
D - no DD, you can not have a yogurt for snack.
DD - Yogurt??
D - No, DD, give it to me.
DD- Mine!
D- no, DD, its mine!
DD- Not yours! mine.
D- DD, you can not have a yogurt. if you want a snack you can have popcorn or something else but not yogurt.
DD- Okay...popcorn! She then hands me the yogurt

About 2 minutes later I realised we'd actually had conversation...i think I slept smiling.....

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Registered: 06-25-2003
Mon, 10-30-2006 - 12:15pm

Diva,


Wow!


real interaction,


real bargaining,


real compromise,


real agreement


...really awesome!


May it be the first of many....


-Paula

-Paula

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 10-30-2006 - 12:47pm

Wooo hooo! that's quite a good length conversation! way to go!

Betsy

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Mon, 10-30-2006 - 2:00pm

AAAWWWWW!! That's super! I remember when Nathan started talking to me too. Its exciting!!!!

michelle

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Mon, 10-30-2006 - 2:38pm

Yippeee!!! Hurray for both of you!

Happy Dance, Happy Dance, Happy! Happy! Happy! Dance.

That is really exciting! Thank you so much for sharing.

Katherine

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Registered: 06-30-2003
Mon, 10-30-2006 - 3:37pm

That's sweet. I remember waiting until my son could talk to me. He had significant delays until age 4. By age 5, he was one year delayed. He's almost 8 now and uses language inappropriately a lot, but there are actual conversations happening now.

A couple of nights ago, we had a conversation like a NT 8-yr-old. It has a natural flow of ideas that moved logically through a series of related topics. Not an abrupt change of topic on his part, not him talking at me. But, a real give-and-take conversation. I feel like I'm really getting to know him as he talks more and more.

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Tue, 10-31-2006 - 9:39pm
Oh...this is so cool!
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Thu, 11-02-2006 - 2:55pm

How awesome - that is amazing progress - you should be proud!!!

(SMILE)
Christie