Reversing Sentence Structure and Jabbering

My three year old, I believe, has some mild speech/language delays and I am getting lots of good ideas about how to help her, but there are two things she does that I haven't found much information on.

She often speaks gibberish: she will say a real sentence and then keep talking with made up sounds and words.

The other thing is she reverses words in a sentence.

I hungry not (I'm not hungry).

Me hamsters play (I want to play with hamsters)

I mama stay. I want to stay with mama.

Do you have any information for me about those two behaviors?

Thank you for your time.
Darby

Comments for Reversing Sentence Structure and Jabbering

Average Rating starstarstarstarstar

Click here to add your own comments

May 23, 2014
Rating
starstarstarstarstar 		Yep, same here
by: Enid

Yes! My 4 1/2 year does this also. I can't seem to find much on it. Her regular pediatrician says my child seems to be meeting her developmental milestones (garbled speech aside) and her developmental pediatrician doesn't believe it's a neurological problem or autism.

Cluttering seemed like it might be a possibility but I have not found many audio examples of it and the ones I have heard are adult and don't sound much like my child, who is also speech delayed.

She was originally diagnosed with a speech delay for Early Intervention (she was almost 3 before she would say anything, even mama) and we will be seeing a speech pathologist over the summer but I'd love to know if you were able to find any other information.
Jul 05, 2013
Rating
starstarstarstarstar 		I understand
by: Tina

I am in the same exact boat with my 4.5 year old son. He starts talking and I can understand the first few wordsbut the middle is a mess. It's as if everything is trying to come out at once. The same happens if he wants to tell me about Pocoyo or the like.

I know he knows the words. He has learned words on the 1st grade end of year list to include "sighting" them. If we are reading or just talking casually, I can clearly understand him but when he gets excited or tries to say something extensive, I just can't understand the middle.

It gets so frustrating; not that I can't understand what is being said but because my baby wants to share with me and I want to feed that share time.

I look forward to seeing the responses you get - I need them too!

Click here to add your own comments

Join in and write your own page! It's easy to do. How? Simply click here to return to Speech Therapy Questions & Answers.


What’s the Pic Articulation is a revolutionary app for speech therapy!

Check Out the What's the Pic Articulation App
Check Out the What's the Pic Articulation App


SEE ALSO: 8 Activities for Using Multi-syllabic Words



Activities and Product Discounts, Oh My!
Sign up for Terrific Therapy Emails

See Past Email Examples

Your information is 100% private & never shared.