DD1 and her speech

I don't know anything about the various programs but I am a huge
proponent of speech therapy when needed. My oldest son had a
significant language delay and both my little boys are in speech therapy
right now (2.5yo). One is more delayed then the other. There are so
many reasons why a kid might have a language delay that it is hard to
compare even the delayed kids. Early intervention makes a big
difference. I'd get any and all services that are available to you.

I wonder how much of this you can learn to do yourself, particularly
once you've had some kind of assessment. In the UK there are problems
accessing speech therapy and my sister had some kind of speech delay,
thankfully, my gran was a special needs teacher, but not a speech
specialist, she was able to pass on some techniques to my mum and I
think some books too, which turned out to be all she needed, I doubt it
could hurt whilst you're waiting for help.

cheers

Anne

Anne Rogers wrote:

I think she would benefit from some kind of speech therapy, but even
if she has difficulties forming words, that wouldn't have anything to
do with the amount of words in her vocabulary or how many words she
can string together in a sentence.

It might, because if when she was at the stage of forming shorter
statements she didn't get the kind of response that would be normal
because it was more incomprehensible then it might have slowed her
progression to extending them into longer phrases.

Cheers
Anne

Anne is absolutely right. The reason for my sons delay had a direct
impact on the amount of words he spoke, the amount of words he was able
to say in a row etc. He was also behind in concepts (like over,under,
behind, next to, between) because he never used those words and so they
weren't part of his conversations etc. His actual vocabulary was fine
and tested as a strength when he was 5yo because we read to him so much.
Just another plug to say that there are so many different 'reasons' a
kid might have a speech delay that you can't compare one kid to another
or one therapy to another.

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Nikki

Anne Rogers wrote:

I don't know anything about the various programs but I am a huge
proponent of speech therapy when needed. My oldest son had a
significant language delay and both my little boys are in speech
therapy right now (2.5yo). One is more delayed then the other. There
are so many reasons why a kid might have a language delay that it is
hard to compare even the delayed kids. Early intervention makes a big
difference. I'd get any and all services that are available to you.

I wonder how much of this you can learn to do yourself, particularly
once you've had some kind of assessment. In the UK there are problems
accessing speech therapy and my sister had some kind of speech delay,
thankfully, my gran was a special needs teacher, but not a speech
specialist, she was able to pass on some techniques to my mum and I
think some books too, which turned out to be all she needed, I doubt it
could hurt whilst you're waiting for help.

cheers

Anne

Lots of it. The therapist comes once a week but mostly she monitors and
then gives us ideas on what we should do. Now - I don't think our
speech therapist is the greatest so others would probably do more things
that only a therapist could really do and then also give ideas to the
parents. Hunter had a much better therapist.

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Nikki

Lots of it. The therapist comes once a week but mostly she monitors and
then gives us ideas on what we should do. Now - I don't think our
speech therapist is the greatest so others would probably do more things
that only a therapist could really do and then also give ideas to the
parents. Hunter had a much better therapist.

That was exactly what I was thinking, kind of like if you go to physical
therapy, you have to do the exercises, not just the once a week
appointment. DD would have definitely qualified for therapy last year
and maybe still now, though she's caught up a lot, but with one thing
and another, we never quite got round to it, but equally we are fairly
confident she is simply just slow, rather than having a specific
problem, I'm not sure therapy is so helpful if things are just taking
their time developing.

Cheers
Anne