Terlenda Crawford

You want proper assessment and diagnosis before any treatment. Have you been to the physician and/or audiologist? You may want to consider obtaining a comprehensive assessment of hearing so that an audiologist, who is a specialty in hearing and balance disorders and direct you.

This is not specific and the best thing you can consider as a parent is to request a speech language pathology referral from your pediatrician and/or go to a speech therapy center and get a comprehensive assessment and then go from there. The speech language pathologist evaluating your child will be able to give you some clinical and evidence-based advice related to actual real-time findings.

Each person is different depending on their diagnosis, medical history and circumstances. Sometimes incidences at birth can also play a role. The good news is 3 years old is a nice early time to see a speech language pathologist in your area and obtain an assessment so the findings and/or recommendations can be provided to you based specifically on your daughter. Intervention can improve speech delay. I'm leery of blindly using the words "correct" or "fix" without knowing the situation.

Each child is different. By age one, I'll admit I expect to see some of the following speech milestones: The toddler is saying one or two simple words like "dada" or "uh-oh". At the very least I expect the child to use gestures or sounds to get the parent attention, to show intentional communication in some way. I'd expect her to use sounds and gestures to communicate and get your attention. I expect to see them waving good-bye and imitating speech sounds such as "mmmm". But each child is different. Some may be delayed and others may just be late talkers. By age two, I'd expect your daughter to be able to respond to and ask simple questions, make animal sounds, and have a vocabulary of around 50 words, although pronounced unclearly roughly 50% of the time, and name some pictures in books. There is a range of times when you can expect talking to occur. If you are concerned you can rule out difficulty with hearing with a hearing screen and maybe even see a pediatric audiololgist if your pediatrician thinks that is necessary. You can then read to your baby, talk with your 1 year old and narrate your day, engage them in turn-taking, you talk and then when they make noises you wait and listen and then you talk again-teaching them how conversation works, and then you continue to go from there. Get them assessed if you are worried by a local speech language pathologist and learn from the findings.

Some kids do and some kids don't. If you are concerned about your daughter's fluency, you can take them to a speech language pathologist for a fluency assessment.

A speech-language pathologist is the professional you would take your daughter to in order to receive an assessment for speech impairment.

There is no known cause for stuttering. Some persons grow out of it and some maintain a dysfluent pattern consistent with the stuttering diagnosis for a lifetime. Everyone is different. Definitely consider an evaluation with a speech language pathologist to determine if there is a true stutter happening and strategies you can work on to generate smoother speech events.

In most states, newborns get their hearing screened. Did she not have her hearing screened at birth? If you have a concern speak with your doctor for a referral to a pediatric audiologist and make an appointment for an audiology assessment.

Although some youth are late talkers, early intervention is proven in literature as having great efficacious results. You should take your daughter to get an evaluation performed by a speech-language pathologist who specializes in children/pediatric population in your area. The sooner the better.

There are many etiologies for hearing difficulties and hearing impairments in babies including viral infection. You will want to bring your baby to a pediatric audiologist for assessment/testing, diagnosis, and intervention as needed. Ask your physician for a referral to a pediatric audiologist.

If your friend had a stroke, then they should complete an evaluation with a speech language pathologist and begin their intervention with a speech language pathologist.

Some children are naturally late talkers but with no words at 2 years old I would have a pediatrician look at her and get a referral for a speech language pathologist. You can also find an early intervention speech language pathologist private practice in your local area to get a diagnostic evaluation performed. Better to try early than wait. Make sure you are also reading 20 minutes a day every day. That exposes the child to 1 million words per year. There is a correlation between vocabulary acquisition and exposure and early preliteracy skills and you want all of that exposure early.

It can. If there is a hearing loss that has been diagnosed by the audiologist, immediately bring that information to a speech language pathologist and begin working an intervention plan based on assessment findings.

That's not something I can get behind nor recommend personally. That's something you'd have to ask someone in that field of work. I personally would not recommend that type of practice.

You'd have to ask someone in that line of work if that's your interest. That's not the type of activity I'd personally recommend to anyone.

There are many reasons for that, and you have a right to be alarmed. See a physician and get a referral or a speech language pathologist.

Children acquire different vowels at certain ages. Speech therapy is a rehabilitative or habilitative intervention, not a "class". Get your son a speech language pathology assessment. Find a speech therapy practice in your area to get one done. Frequency is determined by the assessment findings. That would be unethical to recommend an arbitrary "take this many sessions" without conducting an evaluation.

Absolutely. Find a pediatric speech language pathologist or a speech pathologist that specializes in early intervention. Not too early at all.

That's a very general question. I don't have the medical history nor diagnosis. You can seek out an speech language pathologist in your area at a private practice or outpatient center and get a prognosis from them following an assessment. We treat ages cradle to grave. I've had patients as young as 11 months and as old as 106 years of age. All with good results

It's never too early to at least get an assessment. You can take him to a speech language pathologist now for an evaluation and see what the findings and recommendations are.