Speech delay

[bendi85]

Anyone has experience with speech delay for your kid?
My son is about 33 months old and can only say words like daddy, mummy, auntie, kor kor, ah ma, ah gong, where you, hot etc.

Poly referred him to kkh cos the doc say by this age shld be able to form a sentence.

Anyone got similar experience can share?

 

[mickey88]

Is he in childcare already?? Early enroll in childcare helps alot

 

[bendi85]

Is he in childcare already?? Early enroll in childcare helps alot

Just enrol N1 in Jan this year.

 

[mickey88]

Just enrol N1 in Jan this year.

Oh..same as my gal..i enrolled my gal once she turn 18mth into toddler class. probably it helps as the teacher will always sing song n play.

 

[angy]

@bendi85, if the doc at KKH think your son is speech delay, do not adopt the thinking that he is slow and he should be alright when he is older.

My advice, find a speech therapist, and get him checked out by a qualified speech therapist. it is not going to be cheap, but at least you know for sure, what are his speech deficit.

At home when he is communicating with you, how does he do it? What is his communicating style?Does he point? Does he talk to you? Eg, when he wants a biscuit or a cake or something, how does he get his message across to you?

 

[bendi85]

@bendi85, if the doc at KKH think your son is speech delay, do not adopt the thinking that he is slow and he should be alright when he is older.

My advice, find a speech therapist, and get him checked out by a qualified speech therapist. it is not going to be cheap, but at least you know for sure, what are his speech deficit.

At home when he is communicating with you, how does he do it? What is his communicating style?Does he point? Does he talk to you? Eg, when he wants a biscuit or a cake or something, how does he get his message across to you?

He will point or pull my hand to the kitchen.

 

[angy]

He will point or pull my hand to the kitchen.

OK, that is already a sign of speech delay. You have to do something asap. Speech therapist will do a EIP. Early intervention program.

Pointing replaces speech. If he points and you pick for him, his form of communication is non verbal and incidentally, you encourages him to do that because he point and you perform the task. You did not encourage him to speak.

There are many things you should be doing to assist your son an to encourage him to speak. Start reading about PECS.

https://www.iidc.indiana.edu/irca/a...re-exchange-communication-system-or-pecs.html

 

[bendi85]

OK, that is already a sign of speech delay. You have to do something asap. Speech therapist will do a EIP. Early intervention program.

Pointing replaces speech. If he points and you pick for him, his form of communication is non verbal and incidentally, you encourages him to do that because he point and you perform the task. You did not encourage him to speak.

There are many things you should be doing to assist your son an to encourage him to speak. Start reading about PECS.

https://www.iidc.indiana.edu/irca/a...re-exchange-communication-system-or-pecs.html

Oh my..tomorrow we going kkh for assessment.
Is it a form of autism? Shld we go for private speech therapist or wait for kkh referral? I heard the assessment by kkh will take a few months to know the result.

 

[angy]

Do not bother about labelling. Autism is a spectrum. When you go to KKH for assessment, ask them about EIP and ask them how you can help your son at home to improve his communication.

 

[bendi85]

Do not bother about labelling. Autism is a spectrum. When you go to KKH for assessment, ask them about EIP and ask them how you can help your son at home to improve his communication.

Noted thanks!

 

[angy]

one way of helping your son, is the ABA approach for assisting children with speech delay.

It is about positive reinforcement.

here is a simple url that you can read

https://www.autismspeaks.org/applied-behavior-analysis-aba-0

Do you own research so that if you ever goto see a specialist, you can ask the right questions. It is going an expensive journey and you might as well start early. I truly hope there is nothing wrong with your son.

 

[Prismatic]

Some other things you may check for is whether the kid has tongue-tie (ankyloglossia) or lip-tie. Most of the time it doesn't affect the speech, but sometimes tongue-tie can restrict the movement of the tongue. The kid will just give up after a while if the particular vocal movement of the tongue is too tiring.

It will also help if you talk to the child normally, as in don't baby talk.

 

[bendi85]

Do not bother about labelling. Autism is a spectrum. When you go to KKH for assessment, ask them about EIP and ask them how you can help your son at home to improve his communication.

I have went for the assessment today and doc initial diagnosis is my son has a few development milestone which are not met which are mainly the communication and speech area. We will be going for some therapy session and review will only be in end dec to determine if my son has make any improvement or requires further treatment.

I feel the wait is too long (from now till dec) to be able to get a diagnosis and am afraid that it might be too late then to only start to intervene. Should i go to a private pediatrian to expedite the process? I read that early intervention programme requires referral and they do accept private referral too.

 

[angy]

Have a read what I have said in the past

https://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/parenting-kids-early-learning-397/kids-w-asd-6146235.html

https://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/...g-397/early-intervention-program-6035734.html

 

[bendi85]

Have a read what I have said in the past

https://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/parenting-kids-early-learning-397/kids-w-asd-6146235.html

https://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/...g-397/early-intervention-program-6035734.html

Thanks. So to clarify, now the priority is to seek early intervention rather than sending him to normal childcare right?
Private early intervention is quite ex man..any recommendation for a affordable one?

 

[mickey88]

I have went for the assessment today and doc initial diagnosis is my son has a few development milestone which are not met which are mainly the communication and speech area. We will be going for some therapy session and review will only be in end dec to determine if my son has make any improvement or requires further treatment.

I feel the wait is too long (from now till dec) to be able to get a diagnosis and am afraid that it might be too late then to only start to intervene. Should i go to a private pediatrian to expedite the process? I read that early intervention programme requires referral and they do accept private referral too.

No cjoice..u need a few mths to assess whether if there is any improvement..my second gal went KK for assessment last yr for behavior . Her nxt appt is 2021 lor

 

[bendi85]

No cjoice..u need a few mths to assess whether if there is any improvement..my second gal went KK for assessment last yr for behavior . Her nxt appt is 2021 lor

Hi your gal got go any therapy?

 

[Aaron_soh80]

Anyone has experience with speech delay for your kid?
My son is about 33 months old and can only say words like daddy, mummy, auntie, kor kor, ah ma, ah gong, where you, hot etc.

Poly referred him to kkh cos the doc say by this age shld be able to form a sentence.

Anyone got similar experience can share?

no la..at this age must already know verb, nouns & adjectives, plus gammar .
sent him to speech class .

 

[mickey88]

Hi your gal got go any therapy?

Nope but hopefully she is just at the terrible two

 

[bendi85]

Nope but hopefully she is just at the terrible two

Oh..why u go kk for a check in the first place?