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[quote=Anonymous]Some of you who have children recovering from speech delays have mentioned previously the element of only being able to get the child to talk when prompted.  Would you be willing to share your diagnosis?

My DD is a young 5 and is doing very well in speech therapy.  We first started seeing a delay around 2.5 when she would only use two-word sentences.  She is eventually getting to her speech milestones, but it takes her much longer.  Her speech therapist says she is making fast progress (now using four-word sentences in therapy), and she WILL use spontaneous speech, but I feel like we have to prompt her to say almost everything!  Her spontaneous speech is much shorter.

When she had her intake eval for speech, her speech therapist said she only needed therapy one day a week and that her vocabulary is terrific and that her basic language is all there, it's just getting the longer sentences going.  But I am worried how little she says without being prompted first.

FWIW, we have a developmental pediatrician already who diagnosed my middle child with ADHD-inattentive.  He suspects she has it as well but we are doing a formal eval for her this fall when she is a bit older.

Does anyone with kids who had these kinds of speech delays have any advice or insight?  I have been encouraged hearing from those who said a lot of speech came in for them between 5 and 6![/quote]

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