Katy--
Just wondering if I might ask you a question. I remember from a previous post that you said you are a speech therapist. I was concerned about my son who is almost 26 months being delayed in his speech. He has recently began to rapidly expand his vocabulary. I sat down and made a list of words that he uses and it was about 100 or so, probably more but thats all I could think of at the time. He is also using 2-3 word phrases now. The problem is that of those words maybe 10-15 would be understood by someone outside of his family. The other words are not pronounced right--mostly he will leave off the end consonants. I went through most of the alphabet with him and he can make most of the sounds of the letters. Is the pronounciation thing a big deal right now? Should I still persue a speech eval and possible therapy? Just wondering what you thoughts are. Thanks in advance for your reply!
Just wondering if I might ask you a question. I remember from a previous post that you said you are a speech therapist. I was concerned about my son who is almost 26 months being delayed in his speech. He has recently began to rapidly expand his vocabulary. I sat down and made a list of words that he uses and it was about 100 or so, probably more but thats all I could think of at the time. He is also using 2-3 word phrases now. The problem is that of those words maybe 10-15 would be understood by someone outside of his family. The other words are not pronounced right--mostly he will leave off the end consonants. I went through most of the alphabet with him and he can make most of the sounds of the letters. Is the pronounciation thing a big deal right now? Should I still persue a speech eval and possible therapy? Just wondering what you thoughts are. Thanks in advance for your reply!