***** Read This Review From Amazon for Marci's Workbook and YouTube Videos
We started watching and implementing Marci's YouTube videos when my son was 4 yrs. Up until then he could speak 3-word sentences but rarely chose to speak. We knew in our hearts that he was just speech-delayed (possibly Einstein Syndrome) and we could help him without medical intervention.
After following Marci's videos, at 4.5 years he could speak up to 10-word sentences but mostly used simple sentences and still a fairly quiet kiddo.
Most of the day was no speaking. Just deep into his playing.
In December (4.75 yrs. old) we got the workbook and got another HUGE jump forward. Today is his 5th Birthday :)
Between the videos and the workbook these things happened the last two weeks:
#1 He sang along to the song on the radio. Not a song he knows from a favorite show, but a popular song on the radio.
Blew us away. He sang a few lines with the words.
#2 I did the "Marci 3". That's what we call the three sentences Marci teaches to use- explaining & describing things to our son. He looked into my eyes and told me sweetly to KEEP talking to him. He wanted me to keep weaving a conversation to him.
My heart just burst! After years of him covering my mouth and telling me to be quiet.
#3 He woke up and immediately told me about his dream. Not perfect sentences but I got the basics. I didn't even know that he got the concept dreams much less telling me about them.
He woke up and just started telling me how he was a car on a roller-coaster road and then he fell into the water and then he woke up. Awesome!#4 My son often rapidly babbles stories to himself while playing, walking or driving in the car. It's like he can't say real words at the speed that he is thinking so he babbles instead. The other day in the car he was babbling. I asked him what was story was he thinking about and for the first time he told me (shock)❤ Again not perfect sentences, but... There was a dinosaur and a huge robot that were fighting and the daddy made them stop.
We are a 2-mommy household. The way we have excitedly described "daddies" they are pretty much super-heroes in our son's mind 😊
My son is not yet speaking at a "typical" level. It is very obvious around his peers, but.....he is a CHATTER-BOX now.
We are finally having to tell him to be quiet LOL! 95% of his communication is spoken. We are working on clarity of speech and expanding his vocabulary.
I still watch every new video of Marci's and go back to the workbook if I feel things slipping.
This program literally changed our family. There is HOPE and progress where there was defeat just a year ago.