DD not responding to her name

melissademello · January 2014

My DD is 13 months old.Her growth has been very normal as far as teething, crawling,eating habits and even started walking recently.The issue is that she does not respond to her name.She loves music, recognizes her fav songs, her fav cartoon characters.But However much we call her even scream her name she just does not have a reaction of any kind.This is really getting me worried as I was just going thru stuff and they say that this could be one sign of Autism.Sometimes I feel I am over reacting and at times I feel this is abnormal behavior.Please advise.

smileybabyboy · January 2014

I heard that was a sign of a hearing disorder but that wouldn't make sense if she has favorite songs. Could be she is just choosing to ignore you I guess. I would mention it to your pedi.

Hennessy · January 2014

There are 3 reasons (that I can think of) why this could happen.

Early autism sign - BUT, if it's the only sign.... it's highly unlikely. Try taking this quiz to see if anything else jumps out at you. And, if so, speak to your Dr.

Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers

https://www.autismspeaks.org/what-autism/diagnosis/mchat

Hearing challenges - do you notice her not responding to any other sounds? Perhaps a quick audio test (we've had this done a few times since DS had tubes put in). Does she have a lot of ear infections? If so, there could be ever-present fluid in her ears, making everything very muffled.

Absolutely nothing at all - DS doesn't respond at all when he's intently doing something else. I don't have developmental concerns at all... but sometimes he's just very focused on whatever else he is doing. And, I know he can hear fine (from our audio tests)

A quick discussion with your pediatrician about your concerns coupled with other information you can provide for him, will likely be enough for him to suggest more testing if it's necessary!

DawnLilly · January 2014

Selective hearing. It's hereditary. DH has it too.

Addy1227 · January 2014

My LO is 13 months as well and he just plain ignores me which can be very frustrating. He responds when he wants to, if he's doing something fun or something he shouldn't be doing he won't respond to his name.

ashiscute · January 2014

Has she ever responded to it or does she just not now? At 13 months it could just be an issue of there are lots of things more interesting than you.

As far as autism does she make eye contact? Is she cuddly? There are lots of Autism signs (my DD had a few and I was concerned for her) but if it's just one or two I wouldn't think that is it. I would mention to your Pedi.

mb314 · January 2014

CourtandNate said:

That link was scary. I tried it and it said something about getting DD assessed. I never even thought this was a playing factor for us. Now I am flipping out.

@CourtandNate Me too. I think it has a low thresh hold for answering positive to potential autism signs. I said that DS does hate the sound of the vaccum cleaner, and one other one that I think was an autism sign. But I'm going with my gut that DS is social and developing normally.

Irishsapphire · January 2014

At our 18 month old pediatrican appointment which we went to at the beginning of January, I answered a quiz for a screening for autism. Some of my answers were "not sure." But based on my answers, our pediatrician referred us to a neurologist for an appointment to screen more for autism.

My daughter has an issue with her middle ear and hearing low tones. So we are waiting to go to an appointment for specialist at the end of January.

Our appointment for the neurologist is in March, and our pediatrician wanted to see us back at 22 months to see how our daughter was doing.

smileybabyboy · January 2014

mb314 said:

CourtandNate said:

That link was scary. I tried it and it said something about getting DD assessed. I never even thought this was a playing factor for us. Now I am flipping out.

@CourtandNate Me too. I think it has a low thresh hold for answering positive to potential autism signs. I said that DS does hate the sound of the vaccum cleaner, and one other one that I think was an autism sign. But I'm going with my gut that DS is social and developing normally.

I think this is completely normal for toddlers. I know a few toddlers that are scared of the vacuum cleaner and are typical kids.

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