What is considered a speech delay?

AMD · Pileated woodpecker Joined: Sep 19, 2009 Posts: 195

Thanks, everyone, for your input. Much better than googling it, as i have done before and came up with nothing, really, that i could make sense of. Still sketchy, it seems, but i am getting it.

My son has several speech/language issues, but he was never dx'd as having a delay. He talks in monotone (not much anymore), talks with numbers (always throwing numbers or percents in his everyday speech). Some other stuff too i can't think of. He receives speech therapy at school, also for a lisp i didn't even know was there til they told me they decided to add it to the IEP the 2nd year around.

With my daughter, she is progressing. She's been in speech for a year now. The only thing that is taking forever is the correct use of pronouns. We are always correcting her, having her say it again (only if she is in a happy mood, otherwise she will refuse and act out). It is so slow. Been a year and not once has she said one correctly.
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