I have a 4.5 year old DCB who will take a bite of food and chews it for a good 5 minutes before swallowing it. Sometimes he will tell me he is finished and he still have a great deal of food in his mouth. It takes him 3 times as long as everyone else to eat, and it drives me bonkers.
He also has some speech issues (can't say 'l', 'm', 'r's') and pretty severe random 'attentional' issues. I will ask a simple question like 'what did you eat for breakfast today?' and I get 'I yike nuffins', so I repeat the question emphasizing the actual question and he will come up with something totally unrelated 'I had sone candy at Hayoween' or 'I don't know'. I think some of the speech stuff is pretty common, but the chewing has me baffled.
He came here from a daycare situation where he was plugged in to the TV all day. It is almost like he forgets he is eating?
Has anyone experienced this with any of their kiddos?
He also has some speech issues (can't say 'l', 'm', 'r's') and pretty severe random 'attentional' issues. I will ask a simple question like 'what did you eat for breakfast today?' and I get 'I yike nuffins', so I repeat the question emphasizing the actual question and he will come up with something totally unrelated 'I had sone candy at Hayoween' or 'I don't know'. I think some of the speech stuff is pretty common, but the chewing has me baffled.
He came here from a daycare situation where he was plugged in to the TV all day. It is almost like he forgets he is eating?
Has anyone experienced this with any of their kiddos?
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