Last night we went over to the Stewarts' house. After dinner, the older kids got ice cream sandwiches. Moses, upon realizing that he hadn't been offered one, came to the kitchen and the following conversation ensued:
Moses: Some? Want some?
Us: Oh, would you like some ice cream?
Moses: Yeah!
(We give him an ice cream sandwich)
Us: What do you say?
Moses: Thank you!
(He disappears into the next room with the ice cream. A few minutes later he marches back into the kitchen with the melting, merely nibbled-on ice cream sandwich.)
Moses: I don't want it! I don't want it!
So there you go, 18-month-old Moses is now officially speaking 4-word sentences. When we took the twins to be evaluated for speech/language therapy about 6 months ago, the test results claimed that they could barely even speak 4-word sentences (we of course knew that they could very well speak 4-word sentences and more, but what did we know? We're only their parents, after all... sigh...) Anyway, I only mention that to give perspective on how amazed we are with Moses' verbal skills. We're just not used to having such a little person who has so much to say!
Do you think the twins' speech test results were due to their unfamiliarity with the environment? I know that whenever Michael gets formally evaluated -- like in PT/OT -- he shows much less ability than he actually has because he's intimidated by the strange situation.
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Yeah, I think that had a lot to do with it. Also, they were tested at 8am, and they are usually still asleep at that hour. And they were tested separately, of course. The specialists think that the fact that they don't function as well apart from each other could be another "disorder" or "delay", but I chalk it up to the fact that they're 4 years old and have never been apart from each other for their entire lives! Anyway, I agree that the twins' language skills were lacking, which is why we consented to having them tested in the first place, but the test results suggested that they're a lot worse off than they really are. Even their teachers agreed with us about that.
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