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Child Behavior (Expert Forum)
What is normal?
Answered by
Kevin Kennedy, Ph.D. - Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, Family Therapy, Crisis Intervention
Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
This forum is for questions and support regarding child behavior issues such: Child Discipline (behavior management), Normal Child Development, Parent-Child Communications, Social Development
What is normal?
by megmarie13, Jun 26, 2008 02:22PM
She turned 3 in april..
Is she just "different" or is something wrong?
1. Never asks questions - like WHY, what, when, where, how...(normal kid questions)
2. Doesn't respond sometimes when her name is called (loudly) & it is not her hearing
3. Doesn't seem to understand the concept of "NO"
4. Refers to a single person w/ different names (i.e. calls her grandmother "nanny", "ma", "na na", "mi mi" - a different name almost everytime she talks about her)
5. Cannot recite her alphabet at all (not even the first couple of letters) unless someone is telling her what comes next and then she can repeat that.
6. Cannot count at all. (She just started talking in the past couple of months because she attended a day care!!!)
7. Will not eat healthy food most of the time.
10. Cannot usually answer a simple queston such as "what do you want to do" or "what did you do yesterday"
11. Does not know her colors.
12. Does not know all of the simple shapes.
13. Cannot pronounce most names correctly (i.e. my name is megan and she prononces my names as just the 'm" sound... she pronounces richard as "Ri")
14. Doesn't care anything about playing "dress-up" or "pretend"
15. 70% of speech is not clear
16. Does not understand simple concepts such as answering a phone when it rings...opening a door when someone is knocking... etc..
17. She is not potty trained or even close
18. Her dirty diaper's still look like an infants' (her poop is not solid)
19. She will not sleep by herself
20. Refers to herself in third person..she once said "emmy want emmy daddy" (her name is emily) ..and when she is not refering to herself in third person she nevers uses the correct pronouns (i.e. she has never said "i want my daddy"...it's more like "me want me daddy"
etc...etc...etc...
Please advise! THANKS!
Is she just "different" or is something wrong?
1. Never asks questions - like WHY, what, when, where, how...(normal kid questions)
2. Doesn't respond sometimes when her name is called (loudly) & it is not her hearing
3. Doesn't seem to understand the concept of "NO"
4. Refers to a single person w/ different names (i.e. calls her grandmother "nanny", "ma", "na na", "mi mi" - a different name almost everytime she talks about her)
5. Cannot recite her alphabet at all (not even the first couple of letters) unless someone is telling her what comes next and then she can repeat that.
6. Cannot count at all. (She just started talking in the past couple of months because she attended a day care!!!)
7. Will not eat healthy food most of the time.
10. Cannot usually answer a simple queston such as "what do you want to do" or "what did you do yesterday"
11. Does not know her colors.
12. Does not know all of the simple shapes.
13. Cannot pronounce most names correctly (i.e. my name is megan and she prononces my names as just the 'm" sound... she pronounces richard as "Ri")
14. Doesn't care anything about playing "dress-up" or "pretend"
15. 70% of speech is not clear
16. Does not understand simple concepts such as answering a phone when it rings...opening a door when someone is knocking... etc..
17. She is not potty trained or even close
18. Her dirty diaper's still look like an infants' (her poop is not solid)
19. She will not sleep by herself
20. Refers to herself in third person..she once said "emmy want emmy daddy" (her name is emily) ..and when she is not refering to herself in third person she nevers uses the correct pronouns (i.e. she has never said "i want my daddy"...it's more like "me want me daddy"
etc...etc...etc...
Please advise! THANKS!
Doctor's Answer
by Kevin Kennedy, Ph.D., Jun 27, 2008 11:46AM
, Jun 27, 2008 11:46AM
Some of the items you describe indicate that she is displaying a developmental disorder and should be evaluated in a comprehensive fashion. That is, she should undergo a developmental evaluation. A variety of professionals will conduct the evaluation, including psychologist, developmental pediatrician, speech/language pathologist, occupational. therapist. It is important to get this scheduled soon, so that her specific developmental deficits can be identified and so that remedial measures can be implemented sooner rather than later.
