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When Your Child's Speech Patterns Suddenly Change

My daughter whispers everything instead of talking normally and her teacher says it's attention-seeking but it's been going on for months and I'm worried.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A parent must distinguish between behavioral choices and underlying needs while their child communicates distress in the only way they know how.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Early childhood 3-6 — play language boundaries?”

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