I'm continuing to record the use of new words and expressions our daughter Anna is spontaneously using - correctly and in-context - since I started giving her Citicoline and Ginkgo supplement gummies bought online, daily. I apologize for having missed several in the last few weeks, having forgotten them after not recording them immediately.
Our adult autistic daughter's rate of spontaneous use of new language has continued with around one new word or phrase every week or two, which is compared with at best one every month or several since I started this gummy supplement combination, even though we've been out of Ginkgo supplements for a several days (less than a week) as we await a delayed Amazon delivery of another brand we're going to test out.
Today Anna used the new verb correctly in context. Our dishwasher had filled with 2 inches of water after last wash and we had repeatedly tried the button that forced it to try to clear the lines, in the end clearing the water, but today we were keeping out eye on it during operation since it is making unusual gurgling sounds during the draining part of the cycle. Minutes ago I asked her to go check if the dishwasher was draining OK into the sink since it was making those unusual sounds again. As she quickly headed over to check out the dishwasher, she used the new verb, "babysit", saying, "I was trying to babysit the dishwasher in case the water was going to fill up in the inside."
Wow!! She has never in her life used the word "babysit" spontaneously! You don't realize how impoverished an autistic person's vocabulary is until you see even a modest bump in learning and realize how glacial learning of language was previously by contrast. I recommend these two supplements - ginkgo and citicoline - to improve autistic people's speech spontaneously.
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