hi, my ds (3.5 and tringual) was referred to a SALT about a year ago - at the time he was considered to be reasonably but not significantly delayed in both receptive and expressive language (although we disputed the former upon the basis that the words he used at home for which he also demonstrated understanding) were well beyond anything he presented in front of the SALT. infact, she tested him on words which he would often come out with spontaneously at home but he did not respond so she said that she was only able to go on what she had actually heard and seen herself. since then he had two blocks of therapy (half an hour a day/ week) during the main hoildays which is obviously not a lot in total. his speech devt stalled for a few months but since he started nursery in september he is improving everyday coming out with new words and phrases (even though short ones) and almost singing whole songs with minimal prompting to help him along. i do believe that he was tongue-tied as recently he has been stretching his tongue around his mouth at times; really exploring how it moves and he can now blow bubbles which he could not manage before. nursery have highlighted improvements in his social confidence and the fact that he is using single words (it is a huge nursery of 50 children). i just wanted to know whether it is likely that this will eventually lead to normal speech even if he is initially behind his peers and st. a catch-up of some sort. the reason why i ask is that he was meant to attend about 10 hours a week of intensive salt therapy for 2 school terms with 5 other children but our local authority has let us down by casually informing us that he will only get this in september now (was originally meant to start in january). i have the hanen book as well as a few others and i really do what i can to encourage him along but obviously i am not a salt and i do feel quite deflated atm. sorry about the long post but i was just wondering whether there was anything i could do to help him along at this particular stage of fast-developing language acqn. i just feel as though he will stall again without prof. input and ultimately never get there because of lack of support. my SALT contact did mention having him statemented for language delay (he starts school next jan) but she agreed that he would not qualify in all probability.