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17 Dec 2008, 9:48 am

AS means you just didn't have a significant delay.

Everything else is perfectly fine and is diagnosed as AS.


If you spoke earlier than even 10 months, you'd be diagnosed with AS usually.

Most babies say their first words at 12-14 months. That's the average. You get diagnosed with AS usually.

If you said your first word at 20 months, you'll get diagnosed with AS.


If you started to talk at... 28-30 months, you'd probably receive a diagnosis of classical autism.

Simplified:
Normal delay = AS = started speaking single before the age of 2.
Significant delay = classical autism = started speaking single words after the age of 2.

And then you got to speak in communicative phrases too, use language to communicate with others before the age of 3 to be diagnosed with AS.


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17 Dec 2008, 7:58 pm

I started talking at 16 months, started talking in full sentences by 4.


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21 Jan 2009, 2:24 pm

I am relieved to see that other people here were reading by age 2. My 22-month-old daughter's language skills seem to be developing normally... Then last week her father decided to teach her how to read. She picked it up immediately, and can now recognize several words.
The question is, is early reading a sign of Aspergers?
She only has one AS behaviour (stimming) that I have spotted so far.



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21 Jan 2009, 3:46 pm

LostInSpace wrote:
There's no language delay associated with Asperger's, so there's no such thing as speech that is "too early." :wink:


I'm sure there is, I read it somewhere and I started talking late according to my mum.



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21 Jan 2009, 4:39 pm

LostInSpace wrote:
There's no language delay associated with Asperger's, so there's no such thing as speech that is "too early." :wink:


Suppose a baby started talking at the age of three months?

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21 Jan 2009, 4:51 pm

I was babbling at seven months and then stopped when I was one. My mom told me I was already teasing at that young age. I must have been one smart baby. That's what she said anyway.



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21 Jan 2009, 7:59 pm

2ukenkerl wrote:
Well, I am POSITIVE I am AS. I, like some others(that WERE diagnosed AS), started talking VERY early. My mother said I was talking in 100% understandable SENTENCES by about 10 MONTHS! I went to the hospital when I was about 18 months old, and my mother said I was even chatting with the nurses.

BTW I WAS shy, but I was VERY curious. I spoke to various adults all the time. I STILL will if they are respected by others, unique, intelligent, or know something I don't.

Asperger DID talk about little kids talking like adults, so it FIGURES that some started speaking very early.

BTW the normal milestones are saying simple words at 6 months, and 50% understandable sentences by 2 years.

It is a pity I didn't learn other languages so fast. Then again, I DO notice that I become a LOT more fluent in other languages after getting immersed in them for even a few minutes!

I admit that 10 months sounds early, but some said they started talking even earlier. even 2 years with no point of reference sounds fast. Somehow, however, almost everyone seems to pick it up to at least SOME degree. Even people that can do little else. Even the "non verbal" ones here are often so good that you wouldn't know they hardly, or perhaps never, talk.


Holy cow, you sound just like me! I start speaking in sentences at about 9 to 10 months old. I was also living in the hospital at a young age (I was very ill as an infant). My nurses would joke around (in good humor) at how I conversed with them, calling me a "child prodigy".


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21 Jan 2009, 8:39 pm

I spoke in full sentences before my first birthday. Didn't walk until 2. Splinter skills are common on the Spectrum



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21 Jan 2009, 10:16 pm

My mom said I talked early. She also joked that I could read early because I could identify what record was playing by its pattern. I don't know if I actually could read early but, in first grade, I was reading at a fifth grade level.



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21 Jan 2009, 10:20 pm

I started spelling my name and reciting the alphabet at 15 months.


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