My four year old ds is still very difficult to understand. In fact much of the time his speech is unintelligible. He misses out most consonants and the end of words. I can only understand what he says if I know the context eg. getting him to point to what he wants.
He has been recieving speech therapy twice a week for the last eight months. The SALT has just told me that he has made very little progress, and that any progress he does make, is soon forgotton. She wants to refer him to a developmental specialist. It was hard enough getting a referral to SALT in the first place - because where we live in Belgium, age three is considered too young for SALT. Also we are a bilingual family and this has been blamed for his language delay, but this is a red herring. It has nothing to do with having two languages.
His development in other areas seems normal as far as I can tell. He seems bright enough, communicative in other ways, and very motivated to learn. He just isn't making progress with speech.
Does anyone have any similar experience?