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language foundation..?
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Morgan is 19 months and she does babble more than she did (mostly noises though, like screamy bird noises).
She can say mama dadda nigh nigh (byebye a little bit) and possibly (hi-it's so quiet it's hard to tell). But she doesn't say them unless she is prompted. She won't say them when she sees us, or spontaneously or even if she's upset she won't yell for mamma. She will just repeat them if I say, "say X."
Her receptive seems pretty good but she does better if you point in the direction you are speaking of as well.
Genetics was her to get a hearing test just to be sure, which she hasn't had done yet.
But EI says she doesn't have the 'language foundation' for speech therapy. It hasn't been that long since P graduated from ST so I remember the things we worked on, etc. But P had a much larger desire to communicate than M does.
A couple doctor's have asked why she isn't in ST yet and I told them EI is giving her a developmental therapist because they said ST couldn't do anything to help her right now.
They always look at me like I have 2 heads.
Is this an abnormal thing to say?
We have a private eval but the wait list is long and it's not until the last week in November. And then she would still have to wait for a spot to open up to actually do ST (this would be a medical model), and see if our insurance even covers it.
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Re: language foundation..?
Nope, totally normal.
I had my son in formal speech therapy by 20 months. She did the exact.same.thing the EI developmental therapist did. She mentioned there's not a whole ton they can do with the under 2 crowd, though it is beneficial to start since they're learning the rules of therapy/getting to know the child and what is motivating/what isn't.
With DD, we are on the waitlist for a home-based speech therapist since she is also delayed, but I am content with her just getting weekly visits with the developmental therapist knowing what I know now. If her name isn't called by her 2nd birthday (or still has a ways to go), then I will take her to a small local hospital that has SLPs with no wait list.
A lot of doctors really aren't familiar with the way speech therapy works. When I went to see my pedi and told her DD was on the wait list for a SLP through EI, she told me I should go to the children's hospital for services instead which is pretty much the best in the area. Little does she know the children's hospital has at minimum a year long waitlist for services.