Thanks for this James - we have this experience in our PreK classroom ourselves. In our case, the child learned English around the age of 2, so we're not sure if there's a connection there. We do find that we can sometimes find the connection to the child's non-sequiturs, but not always. We are interested in other people's insights, if there are any out there!
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Liz Buchan
Head of Lower School
Tower School
Marblehead MA
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Original Message:
Sent: 12-04-2019 09:24 PM
From: James Mitchell
Subject: non sequitur and disjointed speech patterns
Greetings. I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with 4 year old students who show an atypically high amount of non-sequiturs in their speech. For example, I might ask this student if they want to take a turn on the climber and they will respond with something like "The bunny. It got me!". There are certainly times where they are able to participate in a conversation and stay within the context. Yet there are many times where the direction and path of their end of the conversation seem disjointed and totally from left field.
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James Mitchell
Teacher
Silver Spring Nursery School
Takoma Park MD
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