Speech delay
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Daycare? Why didn't they suggest a speech therapist? Ours started speech therapy at 19 months. He's almost three now and she's working on pronunciation but he tells cute stories now. Yes so much fun! Miss Rachel on YouTube also helped us before speech therapy.
Yes, I actually work with AZEIP because of it. They suggested I put objects near my mouth and pronúnciate them. Hands on music was recommended
My son loves playing games like that. You can use flash cards but I just use stuff around the house or an action. So I’ll turn around with a lemon in my hand then turn towards him like I’m playing peek a boo but instead show the lemon and say lemon!
It’s been working pretty well. There’s even talk of discontinuing the program. The goal is to communicate so maybe look into sign language if your child doesn’t feel like speaking yet. I describe my actions when I do them, too. Lots of narration
@Mee not all delays need a speech therapist and out of the two options daycare is far cheaper. Often you’ll see a difference in the first few months a child is there and if the issue persists then go back to the paediatrician who may refer to a speech therapist. It might not be that this child is speech delayed for ability reasons and could be just shyness or some other reason that being around other kids/people can help.
Got it. Depending on where you are, there are state sponsored speech therapists so it's free and speech therapists that take insurance. They can give your child an individualized plan and you tools on how to support your kid at home.
They do have a program called birth to 3-its a wonderful program. He could also be being stubborn though too and likes you talking for him
@Mee Arizonas is called Azeip. In California, it’s a nursing program that does it
As far as I know, antes
@Mee hey Mee, do u mind sharing what exactly is speech therapist did? What all strategies he is using. That would be helpful
The therapist uses play based learning. Before the first session, we spoke to the director so she could get to know our son's personality. They knew he liked cars so the first lesson was playing with cars - cars go vroom vroom vroom. Cars go vroom vroom then pause to see if he engaged or even attempted to make a vroom sound. She narrated everything they did, used repetition, and eventually he was filling in the blanks. At this point she's teaching him to clearly pronounce his d,g,c,r, etc. He's making up stories about stuffed animals, emergency vehicles and injuries. I believe one class they play made pizza so this morning he ran into the room and pretended to roll out pizza dough on my post partum belly 🤣 We're told to speak to him in full sentences and repeat what he says but grammatically corrected. It's a lot of patience, picking up context clues, repeating and correcting.
@Amber I think that’s what it is probably but now I am loosing patience !!
I honestly got scared for my son but we really worked and pushed him. Every day we would take maybe like a work or two and had objects of the word and keep repeating them for a few days till he got it but my son is 3 and still has a little issues so I really think that maybe he needs to be around others that speak a little