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[quote=Anonymous]DS didn't speak at 20 months so we had an EI eval. We started shortly before age 2 but made no progress over several months. EI therapist insisted he was just a "late talker" and not motivated. However he constantly gestured and seemed to be struggling to make sounds so we knew there was more to it. A few months later we added private speech. Progress was slow but vocab gradually increased. Just single words. Portions of words were missing and vowels distorted. He was almost completely unintelligible on his 3rd birthday. He is now a 7 year old who is extremely chatty! How did we get here? At 3 he was diagnosed with apraxia and therapy with an apraxia expert began multiple times a week. We did private and EI at the same time. We eventually added LEAP at MD. We saw a huge improvement from 3-4 in terms of number of words and combining words into sentences but intelligibility took longer. At our peak we had therapy 5x a week. So glad I didn't accept the label of late talker.

Your child may not have apraxia but I say this to communicate that a non verbal child at 2 or 3 can end up highly verbal with the right diagnosis and intervention so don't give up yet. [/quote]

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