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If I didn't live in a small city in the middle of nowhere, you would be right. There are some stores that have size 5 and size 12 ladies shoes, but selection and quality are poor.

Well - Most of the "Drag Queens" I know came from the Mid-West and Texas, and brought most of their shoes with them. . . So I thought that with all these big footed "women" You All Have there :) - You could help you freind's wife out . . . Oh WELL - "My" BAD . . . :facepalm:
 

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So my 22 month old doesn't really speak.
All of my kids were late talkers so I'm not that worried about it.

But (just because) when Bear indicates that he wants something, I say, 'Say Please!'

The last week, I noticed that whenever I said that, he'd make a motion across his chest.
I had no idea what he was doing.
Finally it dawned on me - I looked it up and I was right - it's American Sign Language for Please.

I asked his daycare teacher and she said, 'Oh, he remembers that?!'
She showed him the sign a few weeks ago, but had no idea if he understood.

He doesn't talk, but there's nothing wrong with that boy's brains...
 

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So my 22 month old doesn't really speak.
All of my kids were late talkers so I'm not that worried about it.

But (just because) when Bear indicates that he wants something, I say, 'Say Please!'

The last week, I noticed that whenever I said that, he'd make a motion across his chest.
I had no idea what he was doing.
Finally it dawned on me - I looked it up and I was right - it's American Sign Language for Please.

I asked his daycare teacher and she said, 'Oh, he remembers that?!'
She showed him the sign a few weeks ago, but had no idea if he understood.

He doesn't talk, but there's nothing wrong with that boy's brains...
Alex was a late talker, and the first thing his speech therapist did was teach him the signs for please and more. Once he could communicate even that little bit, it was like a mental block fell and his speech improved practically overnight.

Since he was in speech therapy, they did a developmental/intelligence test on him before he entered preschool. The tester ran out of questions before he got one wrong. I think his brain might be ok too lol.
 

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So my 22 month old doesn't really speak.
The last week, I noticed that whenever I said that, he'd make a motion across his chest.
I had no idea what he was doing.
Finally it dawned on me - I looked it up and I was right - it's American Sign Language for Please.

Yes, before my child could talk signing was the way. My wife and I let her watch Baby Signing Time videos, and soon enough we could communicate pretty well. That is of course as long as we watched the vids too ;)
 

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So at his 18 month check up, our pediatrician asked me if I wanted to put him in speech therapy and, at the time, I said 'no' because our 1st two also spoke late.

That being said, I think Bear is speaking even less than the other two did when they were his age.
And he gets so frustrated sometimes!

So, how long did Alex do speech therapy? I'm thinking he's your oldest?
And you think it helped him?

Maybe I need to consider it...
 

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You'll need 'em for the Girls Gone Wild weekend in Vegas we're gonna have.... someday! ;)

Darn Rootin' Tootin' - One day.............. :D

So at his 18 month check up, our pediatrician asked me if I wanted to put him in speech therapy and, at the time, I said 'no' because our 1st two also spoke late.

That being said, I think Bear is speaking even less than the other two did when they were his age.
And he gets so frustrated sometimes!

So, how long did Alex do speech therapy? I'm thinking he's your oldest?
And you think it helped him?

Maybe I need to consider it...

Do the older two do everything for Bear? My sis-in-laws youngest wouldn't talk then she realized the older ones were allowing him to point and they jumped and never made him say what he wanted. Once they quit and told him they weren't doing it until he said what he wanted they found out real quick he could talk just fine......LOL
 

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So at his 18 month check up, our pediatrician asked me if I wanted to put him in speech therapy and, at the time, I said 'no' because our 1st two also spoke late.

That being said, I think Bear is speaking even less than the other two did when they were his age.
And he gets so frustrated sometimes!

So, how long did Alex do speech therapy? I'm thinking he's your oldest?
And you think it helped him?

Maybe I need to consider it...
Yes, he is the oldest...he started speech therapy through Birth to Three (a free program) at about 18 months. At that point he wasn't even mimicking sounds, and BTT actually paid for a hearing test and a whole battery of evaluations.
Once he aged out of BTT he was old enough to go into public preschool under an IEP and still gets therapy at school twice a week. Here in WV you can enter preschool at 3 if you have special needs of any sort, or 4 if you don't. Once this IEP expires on his birthday in November, he won't qualify anymore...his speech is now actually ahead of his age range. Luckily he'll be 4, so we won't have to find a private preschool for him.

Wow, that was a rambling answer and probably more than you wanted to know lol...gotta love sleep deprivation. :blink:
 

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So at his 18 month check up, our pediatrician asked me if I wanted to put him in speech therapy and, at the time, I said 'no' because our 1st two also spoke late.

That being said, I think Bear is speaking even less than the other two did when they were his age.
And he gets so frustrated sometimes!

So, how long did Alex do speech therapy? I'm thinking he's your oldest?
And you think it helped him?

Maybe I need to consider it...

I know for myself, I spent, 2 years in speech therapy, then a year in a special preschool, and then had extra help once in public schools
 

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You know, Bear has his 24 month checkup in a couple months.
He says maybe 6-12 words (although not very clearly) - bye, mama, dada, the names of his brother and sister, more, milk. But that's about it.
If you didn't know what he was saying, you wouldn't be able to understand those words either.

If he hasn't gotten more words in the next couple months, I'll talk to his pediatrician about it...

It's just he gets SO frustrated that we don't understand what he wants sometimes...
The boy has a temper.
I'm wondering if he can communicate better, he'll be more 'even-keeled'
 
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