
Summer - posted on 01/06/2011 ( 14 moms have responded )
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My 2.5 year old isnt really talking yet. My doctors dont really seem concerned but I am. She can say a few words and also attempt quite a few. She has also started pointing to her body parts like ears and mouth etc. Please advise on what is the best course of action ...need help badly with this. Also what is involved with speech thearpy?
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Elissa - posted on 04/23/2013
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Go with your gut instinct. My oldest daughter was the same way. We had her speech evaluated at just over two as she only said about 10 words consistaly, they said we could do speech therapy or we could wait a few months to see what happened. We waited a few months, and her language took off, but she was very hard to understand. At three we talked to her pediatrician who wasn't overly concerned but I pushed, and got her a second speech evaluation where they ended up diagnosing her with a severe articulation delay. We then spent the next year in speech therapy. It helped a ton! Speech therapy is different for everyone depending on their needs. Usually it's half or or hour long sessions, and at least once a weeks. The big thing to find out is if your insurance covers speech therapy, and under what circomstances they do. For instance ours covered speech therapy ONLY if she was on the autism spectrim ( she wasn't), had had a stroke, or had an accident involving a moose (or some other weird animal my child would never be close to! Can't remember now what it was) that caused her to loose her tongue. We ended up paying out of pocket for her therapy until we met her deductible. Also the price for speech therapy can differ greatly from place to place. Our local children's hospitals price was $120 for half an hour. When insurance isn't paying that was to steep for us. The local speech and hearing center (was just as good as hospital therapy). Was $69 per session. So do your homework on what all your options are before settling on one place! Hope some of this was helpful.