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[quote=Anonymous]All kids are different but there a lot of similarities here with one of my sons. Born at 36 weeks, but IUGR, really tiny. No real red flags developmentally except for late speech. Clumsy, loads of drooling, some difficulty with food (like easy gagging)--but all seemed like things he would grow out of. Also incredibly social and smily. I had him evaluated at 19 months for speech and he didn't qualify for services--he was just at the very bottom of what is considered typical. I had him evaluated privately at 24 months and started speech therapy, which was incredibly helpful very quickly. The two issues she identified right away were weak fine motor muscles (especially the oral motor muscles) and some motor planning challenges. We started OT for both of these but there are plenty of easy things you can do for the oral motor muscles, including things like drinking from a straw, blowing bubbles (or tying to), putting on chapstick and kissing a mirror... this kind of thing cannot hurt and it could help so it is an easy way to start. Within a year he had a huge vocabulary and had graduated speech therapy. My son is seven now and, while it is obvious to me that lots of things (riding a bike, swimming, writing) don't come as naturally to him as to others, he can learn anything with extra practice. [/quote]

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