My middle child, R, has recently been diagnosed with a severe global language delay at just shy of 3 years old. His receptive and expressive language is about 18mths+ behind where he should be. His speech was practically unintelligble, except for rare moments with me, and he has a slight stutter. It was thought to be because of a hearing issue but he was tested and given a Ninja hearing A+ for it so we are still puzzled as to whats caused it; esp when our other two boys have fantastic speech. He's been going to speech therapy since September 19th and has made amazing leaps and bounds. He now uses 3+ word sentences and other people are starting to understand the gist of what he is saying without him having to repeat it. His talking gets sloppy when he is over excited, tired or upset but I am happy we have progress. We're now going to be exploring the avenue of Auditory Processing disorder which could account for his language delay and a few other behavioural issues.
DS1 has slow speech development. At 19 months we went for a hearing test which he got 100% for so no hearing issues.
Returned to pead who suggested speech pathology, MCHN sent referal to public hospital waiting list for me.
Got GP to do a health care plan and we saw a speechy for 5 weeks at home (friend of a friend doesnt normally do private work) and we saw some improvements. After 8 weeks waiting saw hospital speech for assesment and they suggested group sessions (eg like a playgroup things run by them) that was in may we were rang in nov and offered a spot but its in 1 day a week that DS1 was in occasional care.
He is imrproving slowly but surely, he was a late crawler didnt walk till 21 months so I am not surprised.
I actually postopned last pead appt as he is improving, it is very frustrating and at times upsetting when kids in mothers group and chatting in sentences and DS1 is still using single words, but they all progress differently. He is nearly 2 and 1/2 now.
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