All About Delayed Speech
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Agree tt it is impt for parents to be involved in the therapy lesson. Afterall parents or caregivers are the ones who will spend the most time with the child, not the therapist. It is really not very practical to take the kid to therapy more than once or twice a week, due to time and budget constraint. Substantial portion of our pay went to these therapy lessons when my girl was attending therapy. Money disputes were frequent. It was a stressful period indeed. You can imagine my relief when the therapist said my girl can be discharged.
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Of course when a parent send the child to speech therapist, one should not rely everything on the speech therapist himself/herself. It wouldn’t be fair to say that the improvement process is slow if everything rely on therapy alone. In all intervention, parents must also do their part wholeheartedly and daily. Not to forget that the child spend more time with the parents as compared to hourly per week therapy session. It is the same concept with tuition as well. JMHO
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hi shirley
why dont u bring ur child to a speech therapist to assess whether therapy is needed? my boy cant pronounce a lot of sounds well when he was 2+. he went Leapfrog at bt timah to see michelle. had 9 mths of therapy and improved immensely. i dont think speech n drama or enrichment class will help if its a sensory issue or articulation issue that directly affect the pronunciation of sounds. my boy at 2 cant pronounce s, j, k, h, etc. eg he said ‘old and’ instead of hold hands -
my 27mth old son(2yrs+) still doesnt call mama papa. he will call out to his younger sister. he calls her "meimei meimei" but doesnt call us or even ah gong ah ma at all. he can say A to J, say numbers also not clear, sometimes when he talks, he speaks in a language which we dun understand, my mil said is babytalk but 2yrs+ still babytalk?
we know that our son can talk but he doesnt want to open his mouth. the worst is he always cry for no reason! he can all the sudden scream & cry, and when he cries he will immediately lay down flat on the floor on his tummy, kick his legs & scream nonstop & this can go on for half hr to 1hr,nothing we do can calm him down, he refused to let us go near him, he will attempt to kick us when we touch him. my mil said very tired to look after my son.
my son is now attending childcare but he does not response when we call his name, even the principal & his teachers too. his teacher even asked me why does my son cries for no reason, even lay on the floor to cry. i told her his behaviour is like this.
my inlaws brought him to temple, to pray, see medium, scared got ‘dirty things’ disturb, fortunately they said nothing disturb him, this is his behaviour.
now when he starts crying for no reason again, we always tell him "u tell us what u want, if u dun say how do we know?" no use at all, he juz gives us his usual kicks & scream & cries until almost no voice. once he cry until he fell asleep. my hubby always say he knows how to talk juz tat he refuse to open his mouth, like to vent anger by screaming & crying.
he doesnt ask us for food/drink, its only when he sees us eating he will come over & look at us(like begging) to give him food. most of the time we call him to eat, he doesnt respond, we call him he also dun respond. after reading some threads here, i wonder does my son has hearing problem? juz few months ago, my hubby dig out a rather big-sized ear sh** almost the size of a pea with dry blood & its abit moist too. it took us abt 1hr to dig out cos my son scream & struggle nonstop. last week my hubby juz dug out 2 quite big size ear **** from my daughter’s ear too. we were worried duno will this affect their hearing especially my son.
we are thinking of bringing him to KKH for review? or where else can i bring my son for to see if he has speech delay or development delays etc? -
mummyJune:
If cost is your concern and you are a SG citizen and you wish to seek subsidised rate, bring your kid to Polyclinic for a 2yo developmental review. then ask for referral to speech/behavioural therapist. with referral letter, therapy is 50% subsidized. but the waiting time for appointment can be quite long (around 3-6mths). then can also ask if they can refer you to do a ear test for your kid.
we are thinking of bringing him to KKH for review? or where else can i bring my son for to see if he has speech delay or development delays etc?
my boy only talk 'properly' after 3.5yo. prior to that, only me and his elder brother knew what he was talking about as we spent a lot time with him (i am a SAHM). he started speech therapy (govt clinic) a few months before he turns 3.5yo. after diagnosis, we were only given a few sessions (6 i think) after the therapist taught us some tips because their priority are for more severe cases.
all the best. -
I have seen a similar child grow up. Parents were oblivious and did not take to the signs… They were in denial.
Am glad you posted.
Share with you their experience…
The boy is supersmart but socially not integrated…at some point was thought to be autistic and assessed, only to find out that there was some sort of inner ear infection and blockage which led to hearing impairment.
Hence the no response, the unclear speech… As a result of not hearing properly and developing speech from young age.
Tantrums are due to inadequate communication and built up frustration.
If I may suggest, this may or may not be similar to your experience, but it would be simple to visit a pediatric ENT specialist to get the hearing test done.
All the best! -
may i ask if speech delay has anything to do with genes?
my mil kept saying my son is slow because my hubby side is slower(my bil’s 3.5yr old son only started speaking at 2.5yrs old. but to me, even now, he is not able to speak in a sentence)… -
mummyJune:
Yes and no...may i ask if speech delay has anything to do with genes?
my mil kept saying my son is slow because my hubby side is slower(my bil's 3.5yr old son only started speaking at 2.5yrs old. but to me, even now, he is not able to speak in a sentence)...
it also depends very much on the environment.
IF there are other children in the house to play with them, they tend to communicate more, or at least have the incentive to communicate more. -
I think somehow pp are spreading this rumor of long queues at kkh therapy. It’s not that long. U just get the referral from polyclinic to see the dr who will then refer u to speech therapist. It is the hassle of moving around but the wait is not 6 mths long. And u don’t have to go back to polyclinic to get referral again. My son has been going thru speech therapy for more than a year already. For some specific areas, we had intensive weekly sessions to deal with the prob. Didn’t have to wait that long. His OT is monthly sessions.
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mashy:
I think somehow pp are spreading this rumor of long queues at kkh therapy. It's not that long. U just get the referral from polyclinic to see the dr who will then refer u to speech therapist. It is the hassle of moving around but the wait is not 6 mths long. And u don't have to go back to polyclinic to get referral again. My son has been going thru speech therapy for more than a year already. For some specific areas, we had intensive weekly sessions to deal with the prob. Didn't have to wait that long. His OT is monthly sessions.
mashy,
may i know how old is your child?
i was wondering if queuing up depends on case-to-case basis after diagnosis by the polyclinic doctor.
we were discharged from CDU @ NUH (for speech therapy) after <10 sessions (can't remember cos about a year ago) and we were told that they will have to discharge non-severe cases (like mine) because essentially they need to focus on kids with severe speech impairment and need immediate help. from what i understand from my Behavioural therapist (who chose not to discharge us yet and kept us on a yearly review basis), once parents/kids are discharged, they will need to go back to polyclinic to get referral and rejoin the queue if they want to come back for therapy (after discharge).
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