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DLD102-Speech therapy info (long)

ILoveBoysILoveBoys member
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Hey! My youngest (Will) is 2.5 years old. We started speech therapy when he was 15 mos old (Oct 2008), per pedi recommendations. He had no words and only one sound at that point. He started 1 day per week for an hour everytime. He made a little progress, but then we had his hearing checked just to be sure, and there was fluid behind his eardrums.
    We took him to comfirm this with an ENT and he had tubes placed in both ears April 10, 2009. The day after this he imitated his first sound. :)
   Fast foward 4 months, not really any progress. We took him to Mayo Clinic, and they did some testing and found nothing wrong with his brain thank goodness! They recommended up'ing his speech therapy from 1x/wk to 3-5 times a week for an hour. Since September he has gone to speech therapy 2x a week at the local University and Birth to 3 comes to the house 1x/wk. He has made tons of progress!! Not many completed words and not more than 1 word at a time, but still progress for him.
    If your friend is concerned, she needs to call her local Early Intervention and get him evaluated. At age 3, they phase into the school system and I've heard it's easier to do if you've been seen before age 3. But I don't know that for sure. Does her son talk at all? Sorry this was so long!
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  • DLD102DLD102 member

    No worries!  Thanks for the info!  I know that it is cause for concern . . . he grunts a lot and says syllables, like dee dee.  Dee dee is for everything: his dad, the baby, certain foods etc.  It's because he's 25 months now that they're starting to get concerned.  I know she sees that my DD is forming sentences and he still hasn't mastered words yet, so she gets worried.

    I know he hears fine, so I don't think that that would be the issue, but the old adage "girls are talkers, boys are walkers" is starting to wear thin, I think.

     

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    Which it's true boys typically develop speech slower SOMETIMES. :) Now, I have an interesting question. What do the parents do for a living? Are they very left-brained people? For example....DH is a chemical engineer, FIL is an electrical engineer. MIL is a CPA. A speech person told us once that if a child is dominantly very left-brained, they can just need a "tutor" for speech, because speech is a very right-brained asset. Does that make sense?
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  • DLD102DLD102 member

    Hmmmm, interesting.  He's in Finance and she's in Sales.  So, I don't know if that's a component of it at all, but interesting nonetheless. 

    I know you mentioned that DS didn't speak at all at first, but does this story sound familiar?  Is her son acting at all like yours did in the beginning/middle?

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  • ILoveBoysILoveBoys member
    Well, it's hard to say. My son didn't have any "words" (which for him meant something that sounded like part of the word) until around 28ish months. He still doesn't have many "whole" words, just parts still. You say he says syllables...then you listed one, I mean, can he communicate with his syllables? Is it like baby babbling? Did he coo and babble on time? (Mine never really coo'd or babbled, he's just started babbling recently.)
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  • TexasBaby10TexasBaby10 member

     I'm a loooong time lurker, but I just had to reply to this post :)

     I'm a pediatric speech-language pathologist....please, please, please tell your friend have her son evaluated!   By age 2, children should have a vocabulary of at LEAST 50 words and/or be making 2-word sentences.  Research has shown that the earlier children get intervention, the better the prognosis!

    I also don't agree with the "speech is a right-brained thing' theory...speech is produce by Broca's area, which is in the left frontal lobe, and understood by Wernicke's area, which is in the left temporal lobe.

     Just a lurker's 2 cents Smile

     

     

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  • DLD102DLD102 member

    Yes, lots of sounds, but no words that make sense.  I guess it is babbling.  He points and grunts more than he "says" anything.  And a lot of noises. 

    I guess I should suggest something like the speech therapist to her, but I don't want to insult her at all or have her take it the wrong way, you know?  I know it is a very delicate situation and I wish I could help.  I just don't know how. :)

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  • ILoveBoysILoveBoys member

    Hey thanks for the info on how the speech works...it does seem strange now that a speech person would have told us that. Tongue Tied
       And yes, a child at 2 should have about 50 words and starting to put 2 words together. DLD, didn't you mention that she was concerned? Maybe next time she brings it up you could mention something to her? I think if she has concerns of her own, you could bring it up gently (not sure how close you are to her) and let her know that you don't think it could hurt to have him evaluated, since she's concerned?

    ETA--You could go to the American Speech Hearing Association website and maybe print the developmental standard for speech at his age and show it to her.

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