Illustrator's Touching Message To David Attenborough For Helping Non-Verbal Son Learn To Speak |
Illustrator's Touching Message To David Attenborough For Helping Non-Verbal Son Learn To Speak
"Thank you – hearing him speak and tell us the names of his favourite creatures will always be special."
Parents editor at HuffPost UK
When Kerri Cunningham’s son was around 18 months old, he could say a few words like bye, Dada and bee.
But as he grew, rather than gain more words, he lost the few he’d learned. At three years old, he was diagnosed with autism.
Kerri, who lives in Preston with her husband Jordan and their three children aged four, seven and 10, was unsure if she’d ever hear her son speak again.
But everything changed when, one day out of the blue, her son started to utter words he’d learned from an unlikely place: Sir David Attenborough’s nature documentaries.
In a heartfelt Instagram post shared a day after the documentarian’s 100th birthday, Kerri revealed how “Sir David Attenborough helped my son learn to speak”.
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