My 23 month old son, who was on track reaching all milestones slowed down his speech development at around 18 months. He was also having difficulty following directions. I had him evaluated by early intervention services, they diagnosed him with severe speech delay. He has been receiving speech therapy for three months+ now with no improvement. He has seen his primary and he and the early intervention staff that evaluated him all feel he has no signs of autism (his daycare provider thinks he may be on the line for autism) His primary feels he is just the silent type and by 2 1/2 he will be speaking fine. Because his father has a history of tongue tie, I had him evaluated by a ENT and he has a mild issue, but not enough to cause the speech delay. His ENT said he can't even look into his ears due to wax build-up. Come to think about it, at his 18 month visit his primary mentioned a lot of ear wax, not surprising his father has issues with this too. Has any other parent had issues with excessive ear wax causing speech delay?
Any suggestions to get my darling back on track would be helpful.
Thank you
Determined mother Cparnapy23
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23 month old and speech delay and ear wax buildup
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Cparnapy23 · 11/04/2014 16:10
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