He has definitly lost some words (ok, a lot), but he's done that with ALL his major-ish milestones. He became completely immobile for about a month after walking distances infrequently from 7-10 mos. Then he started crawling again for, oh, a whole day or so, and then was walking full time.
We do sign with him, and he's been pulling signs out of his head from a full year ago and using them here and there, and making up a lot of his own (and a kinda cool grammar... simple, but effective enough to make his c. 5 'regular' signs pretty useful, combined with a lot of one-offs.) And he says a lot of words, he just doesn't repeat any particular one more than about once a week or so. Exactly the same as he did with walking.
Anyway, it was the lost words that got the referral, combined with only 2 'regular' words at 16 mos.
(around here 'regular' means "every day," I commented that I think DS's interests are too wide-ranging to encourage that kind of repetition, but they just looked at me like I had sprouted butterfly wings. I think they also didn't believe me about WHAT words come out of his mouth as one-offs.)
<shrug> We'll go to the appt when it comes up, take whatever they say with an appropriate serving of salt, and try our best to display whatever emotion they seem to be expecting. And meanwhile, I will continue doin' what I'm doin' (unless they suggest something cool)
Thanks guys
-Mich
