Hi,
My DS now 2.8 was a little bit late and now talks well but I'm writing more to mention my research on the subject from when we were deciding whether or not to pursue speech therapy.
Most of the studies on speech therapy are not done very strictly. When it's not a randomized controlled trial I'm suspicious... of course they improved somewhat but maybe they would have anyways. I did however run across one study in 2 year olds that seemed well done, they randomized children either to a program or to a wait list. Here's a link:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2614563/?tool=pubmed
I liked hearing that parent based intervention made a difference.
Polly
