DS2 has been slow to speak. He barely said any proper words before 2 and now says lots of single works and occassional short phrases but it is very difficult for anyone apart from me to work out (and I sometimes struggle). I think is understanding is OK - he can follow reasonably complex commands like "go and get your shoes and bring them to me" and know basic shapes/colours/numbers.
He still calls me "mama" and a lot of his vocabularly is pronounced very badly so that without a visual prompt is is diffiuclt to know what he says.
DS1 was more average is such a thing exists but DS2 is significantly behind his peers at toddlers groups etc.
DS1 is only 16 months older so i have struggles to give DS2 individual attention for reading etc and usually theyhave to have things together.
He had had a hearing test which was OK.
My HV is asking if I want to refer him to speech therapy.
Does anyone know is this would be helpful to him at this stage?
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Does DS (2.4) need speech therapy?
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popcorn123 · 19/07/2008 21:12
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