"All Done"

[Lee-Bee]

you could try
I heard you xxxxx, you may be done, but the rest of us arn't, and we sit like a family at so and so's. If she continues then I would say to her if you continue repeating yourself, you will sit at the table by yourself while we read a story, so that you can learn to sit nicely.
She may be a bit to young for this, but I had to do his with a 3 year old a few years back and it took two days of said child not getting to watch he after lunch video, to learn to accept it when I say that I heard you.
Mind you she would spend her day repeating everything dozens of times, and it was driving me nuts. Almost makes me feel as if parents do n't stop what hey are doing at home to actually listen to their children.

Funny you mention that. This child lives in front of the tv at home. I was talking to my friend about her because she just does odd things. My friend worked in an autism program. I dont believe this child is on the spectrum but I was asking her if she knew of typically developing children that stand there completely parroting speech, whether me talking to someone, me reading a story or the tv. My friend suggested this child gets little interaction at home and has learned to talk by just parroting because there is no back and forth talking. I really dont know if thats the case. She was very late to start talking but has more or less caught up to the lower end of norm for her age now.

Perhaps the table behavior is part of this plus the fact she doesnt have these expectations (staying at table) at home. Bedtime isnt an expectation the last 6 or so weeks either, snacks and tv until 10-11pm when the child finally decides to go to sleep...parents blame the time change. Gahhhhhhh. Head shake.

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Funny you mention that. This child lives in front of the tv at home. I was talking to my friend about her because she just does odd things. My friend worked in an autism program. I dont believe this child is on the spectrum but I was asking her if she knew of typically developing children that stand there completely parroting speech, whether me talking to someone, me reading a story or the tv. My friend suggested this child gets little interaction at home and has learned to talk by just parroting because there is no back and forth talking. I really dont know if thats the case. She was very late to start talking but has more or less caught up to the lower end of norm for her age now.

Perhaps the table behavior is part of this plus the fact she doesnt have these expectations (staying at table) at home. Bedtime isnt an expectation the last 6 or so weeks either, snacks and tv until 10-11pm when the child finally decides to go to sleep...parents blame the time change. Gahhhhhhh. Head shake.

I have a parrot in my care, it's beyond irritating at the end of a 10 hour day sometimes lol He was an AP child and a hip baby...not sure if this has anything to do with it in his case, not generally speaking. He is not delayed at all, and his parents actually don't seem to allow him much opportunity to "play" independently of them and entertain him constantly...mum tells me regularly. I think they plant things in his head so he repeats them over and over. It's almost like he has been conditioned to do so by his parents like it's funny or cute....I'm sure it was initially, but then who spends those long days with their child lol I literally have to just explain that there is no talking when he gets like this. At the table we get a play by play on a loop. "I'm chewing and swallowing, it's nearly gone" Then he sticks his tongue out and does it again for the entire meal. I literally tell him to stop talking and if he starts again I cut him off and remind him no talking. It's really not the end of the world, just a little irritating at times for me, but that is on me not the kid. My issue is when it takes 45 bloody minutes for this kid to eat versus 10 minutes when he doesn't talk!

[Lee-Bee]

For this DCG she will stand and repeat exactly what is said in a conversation, both sides of it...without being part of the conversation. She doesn't have the full language to actually repeats it so when she doesn't know the words she almost hums them to mimic what is said. So if I am talking to my daughter beside us we essentially have an echo of everything said. If the tv is on (not that often here) she will sit and repeat everything said in the show...with a couple second time delay.

So, it's not repeating phrases she's been taught but actually parroting, or echoing everything she hears with a couple second time delay. I find it not only odd, but concerning. It is just odd.

I mean, I understand kids repeat what they hear and i's part of practicing but every book I hear has a complete echo of what is being said. It's like she isn't engaged in anything but is rather reflecting it all back, bouncing it back off herself.

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For this DCG she will stand and repeat exactly what is said in a conversation, both sides of it...without being part of the conversation. She doesn't have the full language to actually repeats it so when she doesn't know the words she almost hums them to mimic what is said. So if I am talking to my daughter beside us we essentially have an echo of everything said. If the tv is on (not that often here) she will sit and repeat everything said in the show...with a couple second time delay.

So, it's not repeating phrases she's been taught but actually parroting, or echoing everything she hears with a couple second time delay. I find it not only odd, but concerning. It is just odd.

I mean, I understand kids repeat what they hear and i's part of practicing but every book I hear has a complete echo of what is being said. It's like she isn't engaged in anything but is rather reflecting it all back, bouncing it back off herself.

It does actually sound a little "spectrum like"...maybe some kind of sensory/processing issue. Not indicative of autism as such unless clustered with other things, but likely something that will be picked up and identified at school. My parrot is very quick and copies the nearly 4 year old word for word some days. Fortunately it isn't constant so I'm not really concerned with him.

[33 Daiseys]

I have a no talking rule while eating lunch. we listen to the radio, dance lunch, or listen to a story on cd. After we are done the "Main", we have a table talk during the fruit which for us is dessert. I find for some kids it is he only time they are taught the proper way to have a conversation