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[quote=Anonymous]DS spoke his first "words" (single syllable) at 3.5, and now, at 7, literally never stops talking.  He dropped his signs by almost 4 - he was entirely verbal by then.  He still speaks with a slight "accent" now, but he is totally understandably by all.  We did intensive PROMPT, language-based preschool, PEP, OT, feeding therapy, you name it.  We used up all of our savings and dug into 401Ks, but it was totally worth it.

Close friends of ours have a DD who began to speak at 5 and now is 100% verbal 4 years later too.  Interventions are especially effective when a child is as young as yours.  Please do not drop the idea of signs -- we did modified "babysigns" with DS (who also had - and has - motor planning issues as part of his global dev delay), and these really helped him communicate and not feel frustrated.  The signs are so simple and you can even, if you need to, make up your own, just so long as your child can communicate to you.  In fact, it was just at 3.5, when he had started his version of PEP (we lived in another state then, so it wasn't called PEP), that they first worried that the signs I had taught him weren't the "right" ones and called in a sign langugae interpreter to help me with better (more correct) signs.  But meanwhile, we had gotten a good 1.5 to 2 years' worth of communication out of those babysigns, so I highly recommend them.  And then, just as I started school myself to learn ASL, DS started to speak so it was all a mute point.

Good luck and please DO NOT GIVE UP HOPE![/quote]

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