When Should a Parent Refer a child to Speech Therapy?
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Birth to 2 months:
Does not cry when hungry or uncomfortable
Does not make comfort sounds or sucking sounds
Cry does not vary in pitch, length and volume to indicate different needs
Difficulty establishing/maintaining a rhythmical suck/swallow pattern
Significant loss of breast milk/formula out of side...
Tips for parents from Speech Therapists
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The following is a list of suggestions to facilitate your child’s development.
Children and babies learn through play and interaction with their caregivers, siblings and peers. By nature, they are very repetitive and follow the lead of others around them. They explore their world through touch, sight...
Speech Developmental Sequences 1-4 Months
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All babies learn language in stages. They receive information from birth by listening to people talk, make noises and communicate with each other. A baby’s first voice is their cry but they learn to respond in different ways to different pitch levels of voice. If you talk soothingly to a baby, they...
Speech Developmental Sequences 4-7 Months
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Baby will begin to take a more active role in their speech development after the fourth month. They will begin to use sounds to vocalize attitudes other than crying, namely joy or displeasure. She might begin to respond to her own name when spoken and may begin to play with sounds as a result of realizing...
Speech Developmental Sequences 7-12 Months
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Between 7 and 12 months of age, baby will begin to use expressive language as a tool to communicate, even more so than crying. Baby will experiment with inflection and using language to gain attention from parents. Baby may begin babbling with inflection similar to adult speech and they may seem very...
Speech Developmental Sequences 12-18 Months
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There may be a delay in further speech development as baby learns to walk between 1 and 2 years of age. They may concentrate their energy on learning to become mobile and may not be able to work on two activities at once. When baby does use his language, it may be inarticulate. Baby may omit first or...
Speech Developmental Sequences 18-24 Months
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At this age, baby understands the value of language and may be using 15-20 words, combining them to create short phrases, communicating his needs through language and playing with language by imitating and repeating words/phrases. During play, baby may be using jargon with inflection to mimic conversations...
Speech Developmental Sequence 24-36 Months
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Between the ages of 24 months and 36 months, baby will begin vocalizing for all his needs, use longer and longer sentences, begin using pronouns (you, mine, me, etc), use past tense phrases and words, use size words, participating in storytelling, etc. He may have an expressive vocabulary of 200 or more...
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