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[quote=Anonymous]My son had severe fluid in his ears starting probably as an infant through getting tubes at age 3.5. By the time he had the tubes, his hearing was at 50%.  At around 2.5 he had speech eval and failed the articulation component.  He hit his "quantity" of speech milestones on time, but not by much (ie. if he was supposed to have 100 words by age 2, he had that but not much more), and has never been a super chatty kid. Of the 6 boys in his preschool class, one is super chatty, one doesn't talk at all, and my son and the other three are in the middle -- though my son on the quieter end.

We started speech immediately after the tubes got put in in april this year. The therapist identified his speech is lessened by a global lisp caused by weak mouth muscles. So he was already making all the age appropriate sounds -- but they were all inarticulate because of his weak muscles. He's definitely become a lot more verbal since we started therapy, and i'd say his articulation is improving too. He also stopped drooling (related to floppy lips) But i'm assuming he would have improved no matter what because (a) he has 100% hearing now and (b) he's getting older, so all these things improve with age.

I keep reading about other people's experiences with speech therapy and how it made such an amazing difference in a short amount of time. It's been 3.5 months and i don't see any major differences. Thoughts on whether this is a normal experience? How long we'll expect to be doing the therapy?  [/quote]

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