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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We had this issue with our daughter. Not many sounds at 15 months, a few words at 18 months. When she was not adding more words by 24 months, we had her evaluated. (Her hearing was fine, btw, and no ear infections). She tested completely normal except for an [b]expressive language delay[/b]. We began speech therapy a few months after she turned 2, and now at 3 she is almost all the way caught up. It did seem like it was just the passage of time rather than the therapy that did the trick, but I do think the therapy was helpful nonetheless. Good luck![/quote]

Do the doctors know why there's this delay? Will she face a lifetime of related issues? Is there an intelligence component? Is it just physical?[/quote]

No, in our case there didn't seem to be a reason for the delay, but late talking does run in our family. The important thing at this age is that their receptive language (what they understand) is doing okay. Remember that the milestones are a guideline designed to get kids who may have more serious problems the early intervention they need. They're not a hard and fast rule...many kids are simply late talkers who will catch up by the time school starts. My daughter seems to be very intelligent, and her speech therapist does not expect further problems for her down the road.

As to your concerns that you mentioned in response to the other PP, my daughter is extremely social and a little daredevil. It's not just cautious perfectionists who are late talkers :)[/quote]

You just can't make generalizations like this. Even if there is a receptive delay, you may be "okay." We had a receptive delay diagnosed at one point, now we do not, it is clear it is an ADHD issue. Many kids with ASD have receptive delays. They are hard to tease out. At 4, my son's speech is "average" according to testing although I would say he is nowhere near at the level of sophistication or fluency of some of his peers, and am going to continue speech.

Kids with delayed talking, both expressive and receptive, are at higher risk for LDs later on, esp language based ones, which is not a shock. Your SLP can't tell you if your child is on track cognitively, either, so if you do suspect a cognitive issue, that's really for a dev ped or testing way later on down the road. Try not to worry about that now, you will not know the answers to all of these questions for a while, and as you go on, the questions may become way less pressing, as they so often do. [/quote]

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