Hello,
I have been reading some of the general posts on speech delay and everyone is suggesting I should post here as you all have great advice.
My daughter is nearly 2.5 years old. She is being brought up in a bilingual household and has a speech delay.
She has been assessed by two speech therapists - one privately in December and again on the NHS this week. Both have confirmed that her understanding in english (her second language) is beyond what they would expect for her age. However her receptive language is far behind her peers. Until about one month ago, she only had about 10 words (all french). Over the last few months, she has gone up to about 30 words (nearly all french) but they are all one syllabal words. Over the last few weeks, she has begun to say the first syallabal of lots of words, but won't complete a word and won't say more than one word at a time. She also cannot say certain letters / sounds at all i.e. l, v and f.
She walked at 12 months, but only crawled when she was two. She is not physically confident (cannot jump or climb up play equipment easily on her own) but has very good fine motor skills and in all other respects seems absolutely fine.
I am worried she may have verbal dyspraxia or even general dyspraxia. Does anyone recognise these symptons? what do you think we should do? The NHS speech therapist is not seeing us again for 2 months? is this too long a wait? should we go private? everything I have read says it is best to get started earlier, but she has not yet been diagnosed with anything except a speech (expressive) delay...
I would be very grateful for any advice...
thank you