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[quote=Anonymous]I am a mom of the two kids you describe—one with 5+ words at 10.5 months and 1 who had few words at 18 months. It was really stressful. DD didn’t make great eye contact either even though she didn’t screen for anything with the pediatrician when we filled out screeners (all her other skills pushed her over the edge to not flagging the system). Fast forward about a year and she was diagnosed ASD (what would be considered high functioning, though people are moving away from those labels).

It’s probably worthwhile to do the early intervention eval just to see what their take is. If you have any reason to believe something else may be going on beyond just a speech delay, children’s hospital child development clinic is great as they look at the whole child, not just speech. This isn’t to worry you—just my own experience! As you can see plenty of posters have kids that catch up rapidly with no issue and little intervention.

We ended up doing private speech for our DD and it was a total game changer (but this was starting more around 2.5 when she had many more words but was not conversational). We have been lucky to find great therapists. She is now 5 and is conversational with adults and peers and quite social!

As for my DS, her older bother, who was saying many words including helicopter by 10.5 months—we just found out he’s gifted and a really poor comparison group for any kid his age when it comes to verbal and other academic skills (but wow is he uncoordinated lol). This helped to really solidify it’s important to not play the comparison game and has helped me and DH realize each of our kids strengths and challenges and what makes them them![/quote]

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