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Speech Delay in Toddlers
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hey guys it's Dana and I went on to the
Table Topics Facebook group and I asked
you guys what you wanted this week's
topic to be and you said speech delays
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so I actually really want to talk about
speech delays with your toddler's
because we have speech delays meaning
that our twins are not speaking 50 words
or more by the age of two so we actually
had the pediatrician recommend a speech
therapist to come out and to evaluate
them to see whether or not they qualify
for some kind of speech therapy careful
because for awhile we weren't really
concerned because our older daughter who
is five is very chatty and our
pediatrician kept saying that when you
have an older child who is very
talkative sometimes it will mean that
your younger child won't speak as soon
or be as inclined to talk because your
older child will speak for them and I
kind of felt like that was situation in
our house because our daughter is so
talkative and I thought that's why you
know the twins weren't because boys in
general usually speak later and they are
focusing on one skill at a time so a lot
of times there will be a higher
prevalence of speech delays if you have
a son versus a daughter but then after
they turned 2 we started to get kind of
concerned because they weren't really
speaking at all there was just no words
so we have them evaluated and cranked
actually past they said he was fine
being qualified for extra services but
Louie did so he needed some speech
therapy and we have had a speech
therapist come out once a week to work
with him and to work with me to sort of
come up with some things to help him to
learn to express himself better and
something that I thought was interesting
was that the speech therapist told us
that any kind of sign language counts as
verbal skills so if he was doing sign
language to communicate that would sort
of count as a word so on top of you know
trying to get them to verbalize more
doing the sign language is also
something we're working on and one of
the things that she had said is to try
to say a word and say it three times and
not try to get them to talk by saying oh
say banana what can you say banana
instead you take the banana and you say
banana banana banana and you say it
three times it sort of seems obnoxious
but I've noticed that that is working
and it's helping if we're just
repetitive and we're very clear about
the words that we're using and then just
try to go with whatever activity your
child naturally does so if your child is
playing and they're involved in activity
just trying to go along with that
activity if they're sort of playing and
they're jumping or doing some kind of
ring-around-the-rosy then you would you
know all fall down down down and then
you go up up up and just try to
incorporate it into their play so it's
not something that's tedious for them
you get it yeah okay and then also if
you have a preemie
or if you have twins a lot of times
they'll talk later on as well and creamy
is obviously because they're born
prematurely so it's going to take them
longer to get to that point where
they're talking and then with twins they
said a lot of times twins communicate so
well with each other
non-verbally that they don't feel the
need to speak as much as a singleton
baby might so those are some of the
things that we are doing in our house to
help with speech delays so comment below
and let me know if your child is
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