My son had delayed speech...he only had 20 words at age 24 months. At that time, speech therapy was recommended but my son made NO progress with just ST. After 6 months, we got a more accurate dx of autism (instead of just speech delay) and the ABA therapy used for that got him speaking...he took off like a runaway train! Within 2 months, he went from 20 words to 5 word sentences...it was incredible even to the therapists.
Obviously, your child does not have the significant delay my son did, but the appropriate therapy works wonders. And starting early is the key!
We didn't agree with the original diagnosis of "speech delay" but accepted it because it seemed harmless...the experts must know what they are talking about. It took us 6 months of prime developmental time to realize the "experts" were wrong and we had to find the correct name for the problem in order to get the correct therapy.
It took a couple more years for DS to be labelled exceptionallly gifted, but that's another story ha ha!
Thinking of you in your diagnostic and therapeutic efforts, Nan
