My little boy is 28 months old (I do day 2 in real-life but just to illustrate hes not that long turned two).
I've been worried about his lack of speech since last summer and asked for a speech referral in octover last year as he only had about 5 words. I had my youngest in January just before ds1 turned 2.
He had his initial assessment with the speech therapist in February who was happy I'd referred him early and arranged q follow up at the house.
Since then his talking has come on and he has close to 50 words and "learned phrases" e.g. "I did it". Some of these are onlu understandable to me. He is a very sociable littlr boy and loves playing chasing games, hiding etc and is physically very able (runs, jumps, climbs, can put shoes on and take clothes off etc). He returns smiles and uses gesture to help him to.communicate, lots of eye contact etc. He loves playing with cars and megablocks and enjoys looking at books and naming objects in the book or asking "what's this? What's that?". He doesnt yet copy words back to us.
He is able to follow simple instructions and will for e.g. ask for juice, a biscuit or milk if he is tired.
Anyway the speech therapist came to the house and had one toy after another for him to explore. She expressed some concern about his lack of imaginative play (e.g. she had a pop up box she put different animals in but ds wanted to push the mechanism. He did later put different objects in). Also she had a noisy puppet and wanted him to feed it cake (he did do this but wanted to hear it bark so was more interested in that).
Anyway she asked lots of questions about his sensory experiences (which made me think she was thinking ASD-im an early years teacher so could "read between the lines") but then noted his social interactions, the fact he was giving kisses and cuddles to me and his dad.
She is arranging a follow up in a few months time, ds will either be in preschool or nursery then so she will also liaise with them.
Anyway since the home visit I feel.like I am constantly scrutisining every thing my son does, questioning whether it is just typical toddler behaviour or if there is q "need" that is more than jusy delayed speech. I feel like I've had rose-tinted glasses removed and feel bereft, like there is something "wrong" with my little boy who up until a week ago I had no developmental concerns at all.aside him being a late talker. Health visitor wasn't concerned at his 2 year check either, was surprised id referred him.so soon for s&l.
I don't even know if i want advice, a vent or experiences from others but i feel so lost and I'm.not sure if it's the "being in limbo" that is the worst. Thank you for reading my mammoth post.