Archived · Originally published in 2017. This is an archived post from Autism Who Knew, kept for the historical record. It reflects the information and language used at the time it was published.
Source: Huffington Post
by Ellen Wallwork
A girl with autism who didn’t speak for three years, surprised her parents by asking for ‘more toast, please’.
Coco Bradford, from St Ives, Cornwall, said her first word when she was 26 months old, but her speech quickly faded away and she stopped responding to her name or making eye contact.