Listening to Speech is 18 months journey,Dr Kondekar
Often parents of kids with autism and speech delay, keepon forcing lip movements to child without working on listening based learning of speech. When the child starts getting ready to learn few words by listening and expresses with some vocalisation, parents only focus onworking on output of speech forcing the child to talk talk.. say this .. say that etc Parents feel that if a child with autism listens or Learns a word right now, he should speak. It's not so. Read more about speech delay here https://speechandsenses.blogspot.com/2026/03/when-speech-delay-dont-delay-further-dr.html Even normal kids take 18 to 24 months to learn to talk when leane to listen has been started even at age 6 months. So journey from listening to talking habilitation is 18 months minimum . So sustained quality listening for 18 months , will result in sustained quality understanding by child, so that child will learn to speak effortlessly with meaning. Working on output without working o...