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Sarah M.
ily, 22 months
At what point should I be concerned about joint attention at 9 months?
My daughter Sofia is 9 months. She smiles and laughs, makes eye contact, responds to her name about 70% of the time. But she rarely follows my point or initiates pointing herself. I know I'm an SLP so I may…
Sarah M.
Mom to Lila, 22 months
We've been working on the mealtime language prompts card from the resource center for about 3 weeks. Tonight at dinner, completely unprompted, Lila looked at her bowl and said 'more please.' I honestly had to excuse myself to go ugly cry in the kitchen. This stuff works. Thank you Deborah and this community for keeping me going on the hard days.
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