Hi girls, so I need some advice. You may remember my 2 year old was having a really hard time with the new baby. With some time and moving to a house with much more space for him to play he is starting to get better. In the mean time, I have realized he is not meeting some of the development milestones. Mostly in the area of communication. He does not say as many words as he should and has issues following directions. He has tons of energy and its often hard to get him to focus on a task, but if he is intrested he seems to do great (he can say the labels of the body parts in a book, say the colors on the blocks, and say most letters). I do have an appointment for a speech evaluation and I think speech therapy could really help him catch up. I also have an appointment for an ocupational therapy apointment and developmental pedi apt (they look for autism).
At this point, I'm afraid that I'm pushing this a little too much. The new baby was a major change for Adam and I am thinking maybe I just need to work with the speech therapist and give him a little more time before I start jumping into all these other areas. Any thoughts? I of course want Adam to get all the help he needs, but I do wonder if I'm not overreacting a little. My pedi wants me to do whatever I think is right. She is concerned that Adam did regress over the last few months, but I don't think anyone ever really understood how badly the new baby bothered him in the begining.
Thanks!
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IMO, i don't think getting professional opinion is ever a bad idea especially if your mommy gut is telling you something isn't right. I got tons of people telling me that I was being crazy and that I should relax on Bailey with his speech. Thankfully I went with my mommy gut and took him to a speech evaluation. It came back that he did have a delay in speech (his is mostly due to his ear infection issue) and has been in theraphy for the last 3 months. Even through we have a way to go, it's already helped SO MUCH. I love our speech therapist and she is awesome with Bailey. This morning he saw her and run to give her a hug which is huge b/c Bailey is extremely shy.
I would go see what they say then go from there.
I totally understand. That's why at first I didn't tell to many people but once people found out I have constantly had to defend our decison to put him in speech therapy. We go to Scottish Rite's speech center and when they did the evaluation they did go through a whole list of things with me plus observed him. Some of the things on the list helped her to determine if it was a delay or if there something more cognitive going on. She told me that if she felt it was something more then just a delay she would refer me to the OT. If you feel that starting with the speech is good then go with it but like I said evaluations are never a bad thing. They will tell you if they think its okay.
Thanks! I'm using Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and the OT and Speech are at the same place so your right, it can't hurt to have them both do an eval. I'm glad to hear that speech therapy has helped.
My son is in speech therapy and he had communicating the Who When Why What answers She did the evaluation and she is the one that let us know if we had to go to the development pedi.
Nate has been in speech for almost 2 months and it has been a life change.
My advice is go to speech and see what they say from there.
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