Did you have one twin speaking for the other?

Discussion in 'The Toddler Years(1-3)' started by MamaKimberlee, Apr 9, 2009.

  1. MamaKimberlee

    MamaKimberlee Well-Known Member

    We've done the hearing tests, and she's fine! So why isn't she talking?
    I have said for over a year "Ella tells me what THEY want, I give it to THEM and THEY are happy." Ella speaks for both of them. They communicate with each other, and Ella tells me what they want.
    Kara has never HAD to talk! In the last few weeks, I have worked with her more intentionally and I think she's speaking more, but I could be imagining it.

    Please tell me there are others who have had this and they caught up. She's 28 months and mumbles a lot, has 20-30 words and lot of others I can't understand.
     
  2. sulik110202

    sulik110202 Well-Known Member

    Alissa definitely spoke for Owen for awhile. Just in the last month or so, he has started using so many more words. I don't know why it changed all of the sudden, but it did. I asked our ped about it at their 18 month check up and she asked me if I would have been worried about Owen if I wasn't comparing him to his sister. My answer was no, he was fine, just not as far along verbally as his sister.
     
  3. Dielle

    Dielle Well-Known Member

    One of my twins and my oldest son were both very late talkers. Sydney would grunt all the time as a response and it drove me nuts. With my girlies, Sabrina wasn't speaking for Sydney, but in both cases, their older siblings would. I had to not let them. It took a lot of patience and many, many times of saying, "When you become Trey, you may speak for him." or "When your name is Sydney, you can tell me what she wants." And then turning to that child and patiently working with them to understand what they needed.
     
  4. krysn2ants

    krysn2ants Well-Known Member

    We had this problem with the boys when they were little. Michael started talking first and would talk for Isiah, he totally understood what he was saying...to me it sounded like he was speaking french! LOL We had a speech therapist that came to the house until they turned 3 and then they started pre-k at school. The first time they went for speech therapy at school, they were going to go one at a time but when the therapist came to get one of them, the other one latched on and wouldn't let go of his brother's hand until he got to go with him. (How cute, huh? LOL!!) Anyway, in speech therapy at school, the therapist realized that Michael was always talking for Isiah and she let it continue for a very short time, then she told him that Isiah would have to speak for himself, that Michael could no longer answer for him. It took him a while but he finally started talking, we couldn't always understand him so sometimes Michael would have to interpret for him but we made him talk for himself. He's still in speech therapy for a slight lisp (they're 9 now). If it were me and they aren't in any sort of speech therapy, I would tell the twin that's answering for her that she has to let her sister talk for herself...it'll prob take some patience and time but she'll catch up.
     
  5. Becky02

    Becky02 Well-Known Member

    Kira was the first one to talk and she talked very clearly. Trina was my late talker and she was very hard to understand. In the beginning Kira would talk for her sister and when Trina got a little better (we had to stop Kira from talking for her sister) we had her answer but if we couldn't understand her we had to ask Kira or Trina would get so upset from repeating herself she would walk away and cry or just start screaming. It was hard but eventually Trina got clearer (she is still hard to understand sometimes, my mom always comments that she talks with an accent but we don't know where she would've gotten it from) and started to be a talker.
     
  6. Sofiesmom

    Sofiesmom Well-Known Member

    My twin girl started talking at a normal age, very average, nothing special although she knows words in 2 languages. My twin boy just started too. I enrolled him in speech therapy at age 2, just on a monthly basis to keep track and he's making progress and lately he's starting to copy more, adding words, etc. They're 28 months. My husband was very slow, didn't talk until age 3 (and in sentences right away) so we were not surprised, but I am happy to see he's clearly getting there, he's just 6-9 months behind but doing very well.
     
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