Does your child have a Speech/Language disorder or delay?

My son has pdd nos which is under the autism spectrum but he is doing amazingly well with therapy. He is also speech delayed but he has a wide vocabulary. He is still not always responding to questions appropriately. He is 4 but speaks more like a 3 year old. But have faith that he will be okay. I was also speech delayed, didn't start speaking until I was 4 and no one would even know it today.

Actually my daughter is 4 and she is way above where she should be in speech and language. But that can be a problem too believe it or not. It makes it hard for her to communicate with children sometimes, she doesnt understand why they dont talk like her and she gets angry so she gets help for her anger issues. But just a suggestion, I have read to my daughter since the day she was born and reading really helps their speech, especially when no one talked baby talk to them when they were little.

First off sorry to hear about this, I know its hard to see your child go through anything but normal. Just know this isn't as bad as it could be! With help of speech therapy he will learn to speak just the way he should. It will be delayed but you will see a differance in time. From birth till 5 years old there brains are like sponges kids can learn so much faster then us adults. He is learing sign and thats awesome! Becuase as long as the siging is kept up with it will be with him forever. He will always have that "advantage". When he gets into school and HAS to take a language he will be ahead of every one. My step daughter was 4 when I came into her life she had speech problems and at 7 is still in a speech class. She has come soooo far its amazing. My step son still has issues with his past, present but other then that has grown right out of his speech issues. I think that his past / present issues are because no one really corrects him when he says things incorrectly. My aunt told me about a girl that she used to watch. The girl was 5 before she started talking because her grandparents spoke one language her parents another and her (my aunt) sitter another. Poor girl didn't know what language to speak in! But when she did start talking she could talk in every language flunetly. It really will be okay in time. Good luck!

My son had to see a speech therapist once a week when he was 3 and it was because he was not speaking as well as other children of his age. The only reason I think that he had this problem was because he was painfully shy, and so would not speak very much. He is 7 now and is fine, speech therapy is brilliant, it was learning not just for him but for me too.

my son now is 1 yr and 9 months, he can say mama, mamam, broom-broom stands for any vehicle, yaya for kuya or brother, and he can say other word but we cant understand, because he say it very fast..however if we cant understand what he wanted to say, he hold my hand and get me to the television example to open it.

Im not dealing with the same thing but I know how stressful this can be. I have twin girls that are 4 and they have been in preschool for 2 yrs now and I think they have selective mutisum (not sure how to spell it) they do not talk all in school, their in the same class but dont talk to noone not even each other. When I go get them from school they don't shut up in the hallways and they talk the whole night long. I just hope that in september when they go to kindergarten they start talking. I recently called a therapist and we are waiting on approval from their insurance maybe that will help... Keep me updated on your son. Lisa

nope, my daughter is also 3yrs old and infact, she really talk so clear except with letter "R"..but i havent seen a doctor for her speech and language devt delay..i would like that my daughter would be seen with a doctor, but i think she dont need it..some of people say that my child is good in uttering words, our dialect and also talking with english language..

My stepson has a speach delay as well. He will be 5 in June and he talks very well he just has a hard time say words like "school" "shark" "snake" basicly all words that start with "S". His main reason for his speach is because of his mom. She never read to him and when he would talk up until he was 3 his mother just said "yup" or "oh okay" things like that. He had speach therapy when he lived with his mother but headstart said she never brought him. Now that my husband has custody, my stepson has speach therapy 3 days a week. Also he has a pysclogist (SP?) once a week because of angry problems.