If your child received EI services for a speech delay..

how long before you noticed real progress? I know it takes time and each child is different, but I was just curious. Ryan is making progress and is starting to say some words and sound a few, but it is few and far between.

Message edited 4/23/2008 3:25:15 PM.

Re: If your child received EI services for a speech delay..

We are seeing a private speech pathologist (mostly covered by insurance though) because he wouldn't qualify for EI, but here is how DS's progress went--

- Started at 17 1/2 months with NO words. Rarely imitated words too.

- By 18 1/2 months, he had "mama", "daddy" and a few others. Less than 10 words though.

- By 21 months he had about 30 words.

- Between 22 and 24 months, he exploded with words: stuff like color names, numbers, etc started coming in addition to everyday words. I stopped counting/tracking his words after he went way beyond 50. He must have easily 100 now, can count, name alphabet letters, and learns new words and phrases constantly.

- Now at 25 months, he has a vocab of easily 100 words but probably more, and puts together 3 word phrases. His speech pathologist said he is still a little behind in more minor ways (an example: he is not using plurals of words, like "cookieS" instead of just "cookie"... or verb tenses like "walking" instead of just "walk").

Unfortunately just like the speech pathologist predicted (before he even had a single word!!!) he has a noticeable articulation problem and will probably be in therapy another 2 years.

FM me if you want any more info.