We just got our funding from the Early intervention in ohio for my daughters speech and we just scheduled her first therapy for the 6th and we are finally getting the ball rolling! I am very happy to day that we are getting things moving with my daughters speech and getting her help.. but to stick with the rules has anyone here done speech therapy for ther 2 yr olds and did it work and how long did it take for them to show a diference
Edit: we had to evaluation on tuesday and she has a 14 month speech delay, she is 27 months and her speech was at the level of a 13 month old but on the upside her hearing and understand was at the level of a 30 month old
i'm in missouri and we have "First Steps" here...our son, who is 2, has been in speech therapy for almost 1 year now. he was born with bilateral cleft lip and palate which has really delayed his speech. the therapy is awesome!!
Hurray! So glad things worked for you, R.!
Depends on the severity of speech problem... usually, you see some differences right away and other require a little more work. Speech therapists that work with this age group are awesome and make it fun for them.
Good luck and keep us posted on her progress!
My son started speech therapy when he was 25 months. He was about 6 months behind. In his case, it was probably due to several severe, ongoing ear infections. He needed tubes twice. With speech therapy, he caught up by the time he was 3 years old.
Now, in addition to the visits from the speech therapist, we continued lessons at home. She gave us sheets with pictures of things we wanted my son to say. For instance, she wanted us to practice the "B" sound, so it was a sheet with 24 pictures of "B" words - balls, bats, etc. He would get an M&M for every word he said (so it would be fun). She also told us that we couldn't give in to pointing. When he pointed at the cookies, we had to encourage him to say "cookie" before he could have the cookie. Then, she add phrases - "cookie, please and "can I have cookie, please". And so on. I honestly believe that all the reinforcement at home helped at lot.
Good luck!
We did speech with my daughter when she was 23 months. She was at level of 16 mos...but like yours...she could understand well. After 8 months she progressed 1 1/2 yrs and then was ahead of schedule. Just be warned...my dd has not stopped talking and she is now 9!! LOL! It was worth it!!
It depends on a lot of factors-how hard is she trying, how often is she going to therapy, how often do you and your husband work with her. And it depends on how delayed she is, how garbled her speech is.
I was in speech therapy for several years but I started when I was 3 (I have apraxia). When I talked, I might as well have been speaking martian because my speech disability is so severe.
My parents noticed an improvement pretty fast, but my mom was the steamroller. I was in speech about 3 days a week and then the lessons still continued at home. My mom would find out what I did in that lesson, what I am working on and would work with me at home in a way I didn't realize what she was doing until I was older. It was all a game to me.
My son started speech therapy when he was a little over a year and a half (yes, i think he was the youngest kid ever in their program)......because I am with him so much I didn't know if it was doing anything but every few months we'd have a progress report and I'd look at how far he'd come in just a few months.....yes, it did work......and i know how much of a struggle it can be to get to all the evaluations, the meetings, scheduling the therapist, etc. etc. - seemed like such a long and winding road........but you are there now!
Best of luck and progress!
Curious to see how this goes; my 18 month old is about to be in the same boat! Good luck and keep me posted :)
