We took our little guy for speech analysis today. He turned two years old on the 17th of November and we have been concerned for some time now that that he doesn't seem to have words. Denise, the speech pathologist at Vanderbilt, played with Christopher, watched him play with different toys, asked us a bunch of questions and used two different diagnostic reviews to get a balanced analysis. The diagnosis is that he has receptive/expressive language disorder and articulation delay/disorder. This just means that his ability to communicate is delayed. His language comprehension is 12-15 months and his language expression is at 6-9 months.
She said that Christopher has good foundation skills for learning and that the goal is to get him to catch up before he starts school and to give him better communication skills before it gets to the point of causing such frustration that he develops behavior issues.
We have great hopes for his ability to learn and would appreciate all the prayers that can be offered for our sweet, happy little man.
Monday, December 15, 2008
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Posted by irvy at 8:36 PM
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Kim,
Tennessee Early Intervention is a wonderful program where they will send a speech therapist to your home if he qualifies (sounds like he definitely does) for free until he turns three. That would give you a year of services at no cost. He also might qualify for Project Help, a wonderful special needs pre-school at MTSU (they determine this through Early Intervention). The twins went there and so did Jessica Green at one point. If you haven't already spoken to early intervention, I just wanted to let you know about it - they did wonders with our kids!
Good Luck!
Jennifer
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You sound like you're right on top of things. Good for you, noticing a problem and working to get it addressed! He will do very well, I'm sure, with such good parents and programs to help. =)
Kim, Don't worry too much about it. My daughter went through the same thing with Brandon at that age. He carries on quite the conversation with adults now! He'll outgrown it!
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