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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
what is speech therapy for a 23 month old like?
We just had our EI evaluation and just like I thought, my son qualified for speech. There seems to be a bunch of nesties on here with kids in speech therapy. Can you tell me what's it like for this age group?
Re: what is speech therapy for a 23 month old like?
I think a lot depends on your individual child's delay. My DS started JUST after he turned 2 (so 24 months) and his speech therapist was initially working on getting my son to say single words, since he actually had a good vocabulary but wasn't spontaneously speaking.
They use a lot of toys to prompt speech. At first just labeling items. Then moving to descriptive words (ie. big, little). Now we're working on "I want __" and "Give me __" along with ings (like sleeping or dancing). DS will be 30 months next week and after 6 months in EI, he is consistently using 2-3 word sentences and is asking questions. "What's that?" is most frequent.
Grayson goes to a private therapist b/c our insurance covers it that way.... but for a little bit we went with EI - and she'd come to the house and basically just play with him for about 50 minutes... and then took a few minutes to write notes- then go over stuff with me.
It's all play based - but the therapists know WHAT to play, and how to verbalize things and encourage the child to --- that's how they build it up.
Grayson has been going for almost a year now and is doing amazing. He started around 18-20mo, and is 31mo now... I think he's still going to qualify for expressive, but his receptive is testing at age 5 right now b/c he knows shapes/colors... when a year ago his receptive was 25% delayed - now it's above! He also got tubes - which helped a LOT for hearing.
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