bdc8705 wrote:
For those of you who are non verbal is there anything I can do now to help my son learn to communicate without words? Is there anything you think would have helped you more? Or anything you feel made things worse?
Being put under too much pressure makes it worse. But then again I've been pushed plenty of times during speech therapy. I think what's helped the most is feeling understood and positive support. I mean even if my parents didn't always understand, they acted understanding.
bdc8705 wrote:
Also I hope you don't mind my asking, as I know it's quite personal (so don't answer if you don't want to) if you do not talk or talk very little is it because you can't physically talk or do you choose not to?
That's a good question because in my case at least it's a combination of classic autism, selective mutism and dyspraxia (apraxia of speech). The autism, which was more severe when I was little, kept me from forming language skills, and then the dyspraxia makes it physically difficult to speak, which all leads to me not wanting to talk much.