Just after a bit of advice really. My little boy turned 2 in April and has delayed speech. At what point should I be worried? Many people are telling me that it will just come all of a sudden. He is incredibily bright and happy child. Understands nearly everything I say to him/ask him to do. Plays happily at nursery with the other children but just listens when they talk to him as he can't talk back.
He points to things he wants and has his own little signs for things such as he puts his finger in his mouth and says "eee" when he wants to eat. If he hurts himself he will show me where it hurts and what he hurt himself on. He makes several animal sounds, says mama and dada. But when he wants either of us he won't use those words. He just tends to moan or shout. When I ask him to call us by our name and say mama and dada to him he will repeat it. But that's about it.
He was born 6 weeks early so not sure if I factor that in? We haven't had our 2 year check with the health visitor yet so not really sure where to go from here. Do I just wait a little longer in the hope it will all click for him soon like so many people are telling me it will?
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Speech delay - when to be worried?
Banana82 · 02/06/2016 16:18
Get a hearing test !
I was in the same position as you a few months ago , I thought my ds would jist pick it up when he was ready to .
Turns out he has glue ear and has an appt in 3 weeks to get a date for grommets 
Definitely what Marsquared said about sooner the better.
Ds1 who is 6.5years has speech delay, he never went to nursery and as a result only started seeing a SALT when he started in primary, it was clear early on that it was quite bad.
No-one at school could understand anything he was saying, they had to get help from his sister (older by 1year) To translate.
Anyway here's in year one now, in sept he will have been seeing a salt for two years. I can't praise them enough, he's still difficult for strangers to understand, but he's pronouncing words a lot more clearly and speaking in full sentences (before he'd say words as I'd they only had one syllable) and he can read and write. He has come on so well & I'm sure if I'd of addressed the issue when he was younger, he'd have made even more progress.
Hth 
Agree that I would be making an appt, had your appt not just arrived.
Ask for a hearing check (dc are incredibly good at compensating for not hearing at all pitches - after all, they aren't aware they are missing anything). Ask for a referral to SaLT. If he's suddenly 'clicked' by the time the appt comes through (that'll be the best part of a year here), then you phone and tell them you no longer need the appt and all's well. If you 'wait and see' then join the end of a waiting list, then that's a long time before he gets help, and it's likely he'll get frustrated at his own inability to make himself understood.
Meanwhile TalkingPoint is an incredibly helpful service.
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