What age did your LO do .....

So we've had my DS's test to assess his fine motor/gross motor skills, speech and development. He was really unresponsive to the MCHN and in his defense he was really grumpy that morning, waking up crying and beeing fussy all morning. However, she had to assess him regardless of how he woke up 'that morning', and so he scored a little lower than what he should be at. We've off to see a developmental paed (my God the waiting for the app. is sooooooooooo bloody long!). Can I ask you ladies, what age was your LO starting to point to things, make animal sounds, mimicking you etc, say single words and what were they, stacking things, taking off their clothes or getting their shoes? It would help if my DS wore shoes :o

My dd started pointing at things around 13 months consistently. Prior to that she'd point but randomly. She makes 2 animal sounds, lion and duck and she has been doing that for a couple of months. She is almost 17 months old. She can stack blocks but only sometimes but this is recent. Her speech is ordinary-says some alone words but doesn't mimic us. She does get her own shoes and socks and takes basic direction (take the book to daddy/sit on the potty) and this has happened o er the last couple of months too. Good luck with the pead

sorry it's been a while for us our youngest is 6 years old.
I can not offer you anything other than
children have a nasty habbit of doing things when they are ready and not before. Some times one child will take longer to develop key things but will be ahead of their peers in others.
While waiting for the appointment try not worry too much. Personally when ever I have had a bad appointment with MCHN maternal child health nurse, I book one with the ped always told me rather crossly that he thought MCHN should not do alot of the testing they do as "some" make parents stress for no good reason. ie child had a bad day.
Good luck with it

Pointing to things - very early on.
Talking - he was making vowel sounds on day 1, I could understand a lot of his words a few months in, he was copying me... not sure. Did he ever mimic me? I know I mimicked him trying to force him to copy me because he "should" but didn't want to. He was saying words by age 1 year though. At 18m his vocab was short sentences, mostly about Thomas trains, but sometimes about food. He could name important people as well (parents, grandparents, nursery carers).
Animal sounds - I really can't remember. Probably age 2 when he understood the concept.
Block stacking was 10-11m. DS's godmother bought him some large magnetic blocks, so they were easy to stack, so he developed confidence to do wooden blocks with those (and was doing those before 1 year).
Taking off clothes - if socks counts, very young (as are most). Getting himself undressed, maybe once or twice before he was 2: he wasn't overly fussed. Once he got the naked joy though, he stripped off a lot.
Putting on shoes - He didn't wear shoes much when he was little, and even now he can sometimes get stubborn and refuse to put on shoes. I didn't really demand it of him until he turned 4 because of the hassle involved: he only wore shoes when we were going out for a trip and at that point I just wanted to get out the door.

I will add - my son weighs a lot less than he "should". Thankfully most of the child health nurses around me understand he's just skinny and that the "average" has an under and an over curve and it's OK to be not average. Most children are not. So it's fine your son isn't "average" - in fact, I don't think anyone should be. How dull to be so predictable!

From a thread I started when DD was 20 months:

*She does not respond to her name
*She doesn't follow simple instructions
*Despite reading the same books all the time, pointing out the same bits of the same pictures, she can't identify anything when I ask her.
*She will sometimes make animals sounds for animals when she sees them, but if I ask her what sound xyz animal makes, she generally doesn't answer.
*She only has about 5 words
*no reaction at all when DH pulls into the driveway even though DS and I hear his truck from the other end of the house - like she doesn't make the association
*can do ring stacker toy, but won't even attempt shape sorter type

She stumbled along with pretty much no words and a lot of frustration tantrums until a couple of months ago around her second birthday when she started getting more words. She is now stringing a few words together and has enough to get by or she takes our hands and leads us to what she is after.

We had the 18 month appt recently too. My DD wanted to pack the blocks away rather than build a tower. :lol: she says single words, but on her own time- she is not into mimicry or being a puppet. no animal sounds except for 'woof', she takes off her pyjama top / jacket if we undo the buttons and helps with other bits. she likes shoes, and will sit on her stool with her shoes when we are going outside (for us to put them on).

we weren't referred to anyone else after the appt.

Thanks ladies. It seems that one of the bigger problems is that DS either doesn't understand our instructions or picks and choses which ones he wants to follow. I don't think that he doesn't understand us, as for example when we ask him to look at a plane outside he looks up straight away to where we are pointing. Or at home, when I hear a plane outside, I say 'where's the plane' and he looks to the window outside. If I say 'look daddy's coming' he will look at the direction he's coming from. But other things like when I say 'get your cup' or get this or that he doesn't do it. He will however (when he feels like it) give me what ever he's holding, eg. a phone or a dummy. It's just so inconsistent and I'm so confused!

Artechim, my DS sounds exactly like your DD. Do you mind sending me a link to that thread you've started for her? I would love to read it. Thanks hun!

They do sound very similar. Here you go:https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...stions-162860/

DS1 didn't do any of that until after 2yrs. DS2 started around 18m and now at 2.5yrs can't un/dress himself, can put boots on but not shoes/sandals. His speech was delayed at 2yrs according to the ASQ but fastforward 4 months and he is now saying more than DS1 (who has significant delays), putting up to 5 words together in a sentence and as of today says his name.

Artechim, thanks heaps hun, I'll have a lookie :)

Sally, yay for your DS2 now saying his name!! That is awesome hun! Big improvements for your wee guy :) What sort of sessions are your doing with your DS1 if you don't mind me asking?

Pointing to things - I think Moo was just under one and it started with using his entire hand instead of one finger
Make animal sounds - doesn't do this and he is over 2 years old
Mimicking me - just started this in the last couple of weeks
Say single words - can't recall his age but I guess it was between 12 - 18 months, stuff like dog, mumma, dadda, ta. He's not a huge talker now either
Stacking things - probably around 18 months, before this he preferred to just knock things down!
Taking off their clothes - in the last few months he's been taking off his pants and nappy at bath time, other than this he has no interest
Getting their shoes - around 20 months

You know your child better than anyone, I hope all is well with him. I know my MCHN has expressed concern over Moo once or twice but he's not a performer and doesn't do what a strange lady asks :lol: It might help if you wrote down what he is doing though, you might find he is doing other things instead. For example my little guy wasn't into stacking but was very quick with the puzzles and shape sorter!