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My two year old isn’t talking!
Published in Sarah Kuppen, Little Kids, Big Dilemmas, 2018
Most children learn to talk quickly and easily. However, it is not unusual to see two year olds who don’t talk much. Estimates from the US suggest around 14 per cent of 18 to 24 month olds are not talkers (Horwitz et al., 2003). While many of these children are ‘late bloomers’ and will go on to catch up with their peers by school age, a small group will have prolonged speech and language difficulties. Children who are late to talk may be more likely to worry, or feel angry, and may need extra help to communicate their feelings (Desmarais et al., 2008). Getting access to the right support is important.
It’s a Girl’s Life
Published in Elizabeth B. Torres, Caroline Whyatt, Autism, 2017
Jadyn Waiser, Michelle Stern Waiser, Anita Breslin
After a normal, peaceful pregnancy, Jadyn was born by a C-section in a flurry. My memories of the event are hazy, but I will never shake the moment I was told that she had been born blue, with her umbilical cord wrapped around her small neck twice. However, my maternal instincts and worry quickly subsided, with Jadyn soon declared a healthy, “chubby” baby weighing in at an impressive 8.5 pounds. The first months vanished from beneath us, and we slowly adjusted to being first-time parents. Jadyn went from strength to strength for the first 9 months, meeting all her early developmental milestones—although with some delay. It wasn’t until we noticed that she had yet to crawl, and continued to feel very fragile—much like a rag doll [signs of hypotonia]—that we became slightly concerned. Voicing these concerns to our pediatricians, we were initially reassured that she was simply a late bloomer. This reassurance, however, was short-lived.
Cocaine Addicts: Who Are They?
Published in Jennifer Rice-Licare, Katharine Delaney-McLoughlin, Cocaine Solutions, 2014
Jennifer Rice-Licare, Katharine Delaney-McLoughlin
I was a late bloomer; I didn’t start drinking on a daily basis until I was thirty-three. I snorted cocaine a year later, and injected it a couple of years after that. I was arrested after seven years of using drugs. I didn’t tie it all together until a year and a half later. Cocaine was the cause of my criminal, financial and emotional difficulties.
Weeding Out the Stigma: Older Veterans in Illinois Share Their Experiences Using Medical Cannabis
Published in Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 2023
Kelly Lynn Clary, Hyojung Kang, Laura Quintero Silva, Julie Bobitt
The next participant mentions that stereotypes are created through the intersection of political movements, religion, and movies. Of course, it goes back to the [President Richard] Nixon years and then the Drug Wars and, you know, the paraquat and Mexican marijuana fields … But certainly, for example, from the perspective of the church, there are lots of lingering stereotypes, figure you know, going back to Cheech and Chong movies up to the present, but also then the medical community … … .So, in my mid 60s, You know, I’m a late bloomer, I guess. Yeah, I think there’s a lot of stereotypes, both, politically from just decades ago from the Drug Wars and theologically, or I should say, religiously, not necessarily theologically, but religiously, as you know, something that is, there’s a reason why they were, for many years, it’s been associated with heavy, you know, social value in being categorized with the heroin and LSD in terms of its potential danger in lingering stereotypes about addiction. – Participant 24, 64 y/o.
Teaching Puberty for LGBTQIA + Diversity, Inclusion, and Beyond: A New Model of Expansive Pubertal Understanding
Published in American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2022
The oft-examined struggle of “on time,” or “off time,” maturation, is indeed not just a matter of timing. These struggles are primarily in regard to physically manifesting what is anticipated to be the normative development for a sexed/gendered body. On time or off time is actually code for fitting gender norms in a particular time frame. Importantly, while most “late bloomers” are assured that they will “become a woman” or “become a man” one day, some actually never will. Some males will never grow beards, some females will never grow breasts, and some intersex girls will never menstruate, and so on. In addition, most humans who grow and develop will grow elements of what appears to be “the other sex,” since so much of pubertal development is actually shared (for example, extensive hair growth).
Pressures on Kids for Early Measurable Achievement
Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2020
One of the events that stimulated my interest in this topic was the new book by Karlgaard (2019) on late bloomers and his focus on the process of brain maturation and development across the life span. An interview with Karlgaard and neuroscientist Kevin Ochsner, whose lab studies emotion and self-control at the Columbia University, provides some final thoughts on educational practices and pressures on kids to be early achievers (Whitman, 2019). Both interviewees criticized the pressure placed on children by schools and oftentimes parents to be high achievers at early ages when critical capabilities are still evolving. Karlgaard cited research demonstrating that different capabilities peak in different stages of our lives. Ochsner warned of defining achievement too narrowly, as standardized tests, such as the SAT and GRE, often do, without taking into account other forms of intelligence, especially emotional intelligence, self- and social awareness, critical thinking, effective decision-making, creative problem-solving ability, and goal-setting skills.