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OP here.  I'm kind of freaking out.   My husband and I knew that she was not as advanced as some of her peers but we just chalked it up to those kids being abnormally advanced.   She was also a late walker and we used to freak out about it, but it ended up being fine.

She's so vocal and expressive that I never worried about it, but now I see that her vocabulary isn't really developing and she has a hard time pronouncing words and she doesn't put two words together.    I'd like to figure out a plan asap. [/quote]

Don't freak out.  Easier said than done, I know.  My son didn't say ANY words until well after his 2nd birthday.  We were sure all of the information was going in, but nothing was coming out.  We'd already been in therapy from about 20 months because it was so noticeable and we were pretty concerned.  Even several months into therapy, we were still mainly using sign language to communicate and hoping for one syllable at a time, if that.  It was a very slow start.

And then he had an absolute explosion and chatters non-stop -- whole paragraphs!  He went from absolutely nothing to chatterbox in under 3 months.  He's still in therapy, working on pronunciation and clarity, but the difference is really amazing.  And, we were right, all of the information was going in - just nothing coming back out.  Start with early intervention, talk to your pediatrician and go from there.

we got some pushback from family and friends, telling us to relax it would just take time, but my gut said therapy and I'm glad we went forward when we did.[/quote]

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