Help with talking!!

Hi all my kiddo is 2 1/2 and he refuses to talk. Does anyone have any advice on how I can get him to talk?! He follows everything I tell him to do he just won’t verbalize what he wants. I have contacted speech therapy and they said he didn’t qualify. Any advice is greatly appreciated!

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I would advise contacting speech therapy again, if they say no then ask for a second opinion, dont let them refuse you!

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If speech therapy is not an option, you have to basically give him options. My son didn’t talking until he was almost 3 and that helped for us. Message me if you have questions!

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my son got approved for speech therapy at 2, they taught him sign language to communicate instead of talking LOL. so I pulled him from that therapist and continued teaching him at home and talking to him normally. When he turned 3 he suddenly felt the confidence to talk and chat and put sentences together.
Up until 3 he said mama, dada, baby, yes, no, ok, doggies, truck, bike, hungry. But no words put together and when he turned 3 he suddenly talked so naturally and hasnt stopped 😂😂 Now he talks nonstop and explains everything and is an absolute socialite chatterbox.
Get him checked for tongue/lip ties, overall if hes able to understand you and get his point across/communicate otherwise he just may not feel the need yet.

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I myself didn't speak till I was 5½ but when I did start speaking it was as though I always had. My son is speaking well for his age group and reading at a first grade level. I suggest definitely calling about the speach therapy again or asking for a suggestion in where to go to help get things started. Doing baby sign language definitely helps atart with communication without having to be verbal. I strongly suggest Ms.LoLo and Friends (she's a speach pathologist) and Ms.Rachel (Focuses on speach delay) singing songs they enjoy and nursery rhymes yhen letting them say one word helps with yhe independence of speach. I have 18 years of child care experience before I had my kids so there's a lot of information I've accumulated in that time.

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Can I ask why he didn’t qualify for it? X

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