How do I know that one of my two-year old twins is stubborn?
Both of the boys have been diagnosed with a speech delay and have been receiving weekly speech therapy since early this summer. Xander has done far better with it than Sawyer, who has some other things going on.
For me, Xander signs three signs pretty consistently ("more," "all done," and "no"). He refuses to do those for the therapist without a lot of prompting and modeling, and he even gives her some of his angry signing instead - clapping that also includes an angry exclamation of "Ah!" He also follows basic commands and directions from me during the week, which he promptly ignores from the therapist.
And lately, he's getting even worse. We can actually hear him saying words. It's usually immediately after he's heard someone say something, and he will only say it once and not repeat it for any amount of prompting (or even bribing). Just this last couple of days we've heard for the first time "up," "garage," "apple juice" and "get you" from his mouth.
He is saying more things and making more new sounds. But those random words, they just keep popping up. Here's hoping that's a good sign for his language development. I think we can just say stubborn and leave it at that.
