Thoughtful Thursday: Non verbal Vs Verbal communication

With my eldest son having a speech delay.. I've learnt a lot about non verbal communication.

My son non verbally communicates heavily. Whether it would be drawing my attention to something; his behaviour, the way he looks at me when he wants something... yeah, he's got it down to a T.

But when it comes to verbal... he isn't really there yet.

I've come to a theory that he has just gotten used to communicating non verbally that.. he doesn't actually see the reason to speak. Does that sound crazy?

So I'm literally at all costs trying to get him to communicate with me, by telling me what he wants.

This is typically what Jeremiah does:

If he wants something to eat, there are times where he will clearly say to me, "Eat".
Whereas.. there will be other times when I'm in the kitchen, he will open the fridge and point to what he wants.
So when he does that, I will try and get him to say what he wants.

This ends up in a tantrum.

It's like in his head he's saying "Woman! I've shown you what I want, why do I have to say it to you now?"

But he is getting better with saying words; he just has to now put them in the right context so I can understand him.

Also... things like speech delay, I'm not sure can go by the books. Every child is different and develops at different times.
Jeremiah could only say a handful of words when he was 2... he's 3 now and it has expanded. It's just formulating the sentences and making it make sense.

His time will come-- it does get very stressful because you just want to understand your child, and your child also wants you to understand them.