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@Jboos how did it go?
Any advice
I have a set of triplets. Born via CS, 34 wks gestation birth weight 1.85, 1.9 and the girl was 2kg.
They are 2 years and 4 months.

The girl is over active. Speaking sentences writing numbers, tries to tell you all that happened in school. You can pick about 50-60% of what she's saying.

My twin sons are facing a similar situation as yours. They are not responding to their name, but rarely say Mama and one says water (once in a long while). Rather than talk, they will pull you by hand to what they want and point at it. That's their preferred style of communication. They started walking at 18 months. They girl started at 8months.

The boys eat well, sleep well, have normal head circumference, no visible pallete issues. They love shinny objects like keys, dangling earrings etc (goes straight into their mouth), they love to run around, love going out, and scream with laughter when excited. They love being backed and riding like you're a horse. One of them is a toe walker (but my wife's family has history of toe walking).

Whenever you play nursery rhymes the boys are so excited, they respond to what they see and you can almost here them sing some part of the sounds. For instance when the rhyme "if you're happy and you know it say hurray" plays, one of them screams "urayyyy" with so much excitement. They roll hands at wheels on the bus, but my concern is that they just don't respond to their name when called. They play well with kids and also get excited watching other kids have fun.

We visited a professor of pediatric neurology (they were 2 years and a month at the time) and he observed them for about 30mins. The boys played, cried when something was taken from them and stopped when they were given back, one even smiled at the time. They were running around the office and just having pure fun. The Prof said they're not autistic we may need to give time and see. But engage them more in talking

It's been 3 months since, not much improvement, except that they like to draw and replicate what they were taught in school.

Someone said we should go run a full audiology evaluation to be really sure. LASUTH said it would cost 100k per child. In my search for a cheaper option I came across your post. Kindly share the outcome of your visit to BSA and the progress on your child.

Thanks