My first blog post!

Welcome to the world of blogging Mel!!

I have decided to create a blog of Wills speech development. A and I were a little bit concerned prior to Will turning 2 that he was not heading in the right direction speech wise. He had met other milestones along the way but just not his speech. I wanted to get in there straight away and get intervention started so that Will would not be left behind.

We began speech therapy late Jan and he was assessed at having a moderate speech delay both receptive and expressive, although his receptive language skills were better than his expressive. At 2, he had about 15 words - the accepted standard is somewhere between 50 - 200 words! Not even close.

Our speech therapist is very positive about Will as we have him beginning speech so early and he will be more prone to developing at a faster rate than had we left it.

On a more personal side, I was devastated with the news. While I knew that there was something amisss, it does hurt when you get the final assessment and the news is confirmed. I struggled with it, along with A, but we are optimistic that Will has the capabilities to be a 'normal' speaker. I was thinking negatively, all the terrible 'what ifs' that suck you in when you are down and out....but his progress while ever so little keeps A and I very positive.