Jumping the gun on a speech therapist for a 2 year old?

I feel like age 2, there is such a broad range of new skills being learned. how many months is your child? if he just turned 2, then maybe give it a few months; if he's closer to three, then maybe he could benefit from some speech therapy. an evaluation wouldn't hurt, and then you could go from there with what you feel comfortable with. read lots of books and ask questions about the pictures like "where's the apple" then get him to say apple, utilize a chalk board and write words, get him involved with a playgroup a couple times a week if you can, etc. kids learn so much from other kids. good luck! (my brother had to have speech and occupational therapy when he was a toddler and turned out to be a smart and funny kid who's graduating high school this year. my daughter is about to turn 2 and i saw a world of difference when she started daycare in september. she talks quite a bit now!)

How long has he been two? Is he just two or older? I don't think that being around other children teaches them t speak....it's you...and how much you talk to him an read to him....of course some kids...even if they are constantly spoken to and Read to....take a year or two longer.

Go to the therapist anyway...if there is a problem then the faster you get it looked at the faster it will be fixed.

Not necessarily. It really depends on what you think. Do you think he speaks adequately given the circumstances he is in daily? Does he understand what you say to him, even if he doesn't say the words himself? My middle daughter was a slow to speak kinda kid. We even tested her hearing because at 18 months she still didn't say any words. By about 2 she started speaking and had an amazing vocab. Everything was fine, and she was just quiet.

I know some people that waited, and needed speech therapy later, and wished they had done it sooner. I know some people that waited, and their child quickly caught up, even surpassed their peers. It really just depends on what YOU think. If you are comfortable with his communication skills, then give him time.

It can depend on you, how often do you talk to your child? I know someone who doesn't correct their child's speech and she doesn't learn. I always try to make sure to point out things to my girl and teach her the way to say it.

Trumpet is "desbit" but I keep saying it slowly and someday she'll get it right.

Anyway, it isn't the way your child says words that counts, if YOU can understand what she's trying to say, then it's a word, no matter how jumbled :) It still counts.

A speech pathologist would help teach you exercises to encourage your son to talk. They have this huge booklet to understand where your son is. They measure your son in two ways, the way he comprehends things and the way he expresses himself.

I know I was always taught to just talk to my son and that he would understand me, but it turns out that I was just talking muble jumble to him and that he would scream out of fustration because he couldnt learn to express himself. so the pathologist taught me to slow things down, go back to square one and teach him the basics. Then after a few months of going she noticed that my son couldnt say the -sp- for spider, spooky... so it was around halloween and she got out some string and a big rubber spider, she made this huge spider web in her room with the string and let my son throw the spider into the spiderweb when he exercised the sp muscles in the mouth...

I strongly suggest going, you never know what your going to learn even if he's right where he should be it could be a learning experience.

a speech therapist can be a wonderful thing, my son has one, but he is 5. but iu truly think the thing that helped out my son was sending him to day care twice a week. thats when his words became so much clearer and more of them. maybe if theres some mommy or daddy and me classes in your area those might be good too, for both of you.

wouldnt hurt to look into it...however exposure will teach her a lot. if i were you id make a valiant effort to get her to socialize at parks, museums, libraries etc. getting her around other kids will probably teach her a lot of new things. however she should definitely have picked up on language clues from you by now...early intervention cant hurt.

continue to speak in complete sentences to your child, read to him daily, allow him the opportunity to use words, and follow up with the therapist.

Yep it's jumping the gun. Your kid ain't gonna pop out of the womb quoting Shakespeare.