Speech Therapy

No advise. But I’m in the same boat. My LO is 17 months and is not talking. Waiting to hear to schedule an appointment with a speech therapist

I just started with my 17 month old 🥰 the evaluation in itself was helpful and I am going to go forward with it as I want best foundation.

I wasn’t offered resources, I was told it would come in time, I tried really hard to advocate for a referal from our pediatrician, but by the time they saw my concerns as valid my son aged out of accessing early intervention programs.

Hes set to start public school in September at the preschool that houses the speech language pathologists and ot’s of our district

If you’re being offered resources like a speech therapist, happily take them.

This seems early to me. My daughter had few words at 17 months but by 18 months she had almost 50 words and no speech and language intervention. We didn’t do anything different at all. I am in the UK and I believe here we are usually told to wait until 2.

My daughter has been doing speech therapy the last year and it has helped her SOOO much. My daughters soeechbtherapust says that repeating things your doing and using for your chikd is super helpful. Shes very into playing and structured activities. my daughters pediatrician recommended it at her 12 month appt. We started her therapy just before her 15 month appt.

Oof this seems so early! My son was saying almost nothing at that age, he’s now 2.5 and stringing huge sentences together. He couldn’t really say anything till he turned 2.