I used a Brokieism lately:
My son, who had his third birthday yesterday, is behind the normal acquisition of language for his age. He barely speaks at all. One day last week, he didn't eat his bread I had made him for kindergarten. I asked him *why* he hadn't eaten it. He pointed at it and said "Eeeeee" (like in
eerie), which means as much as Yuck!
I answered: You don't say much, but you get your point across
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. It occurred to me at this moment, that this sentence just nails it for him: he doesn't say much, but he has no problems to let the world know what he wants (or doesn't want).