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@Mellissa she mostly uses the pacifier during naps and when she sleeps. She usually loses it somewhere during the day and doesn't go looking for it. I will contact her pediatrician about it I was just hoping to avoid any therapy and be able to try at home. We only have one vehicle and have no way to get to the extra appointments.
I know it’s hard. We worried about extra therapy too because we both work full time. I’d just keep working with her. We have lots of books but my son doesn’t want to be read to lol my husband bought him wood blocks with words and pictures and we look at them and say the words and just keep telling him words for things over and over. The pediatrician told us to lose the binky, talk to him in non-baby talk (which we have always done), teach him his body parts, tell him what things are when he points to them. You got this, mama. ♥️
I'm learning ASL to be able to teach him ASL ( not baby sign, that's faux ASL). I figure that as long as he can communicate in some way, that still counts. I narrate things, I educate him about things
@Mellissa hi sorry to jump in here, do pacifiers delay speech?
@Valene the pediatrician told us that he would be more likely to start talking more if he we took it from him. So we started taking it and putting it up once he was up in the morning and he has added quite a few words to his word count since doing so. If he has it in and is trying to say stuff, it’s just mumbled babble.
@Mellissa oh wow! Thanks!!
My son just turned 16 months old. We had similar concerns and spoke to his pediatrician. She told me not to worry too much unless he gets past the 18 month check up and isn’t saying any more words but we could call early intervention if we wanted to to have him evaluated. Does she use a pacifier? A couple weeks ago, we started taking it away from him during the day, unless he really wanted it, and his word count has gone up quite a bit. He will only say some words once and then we don’t hear them again but he now has a few that he will say regularly. We make sure to tell him what something is a few times, like if he wants his cup we will say cup 3 times while handing it to him. Where we live, there is no referral needed to setup with early intervention, I would ask your pediatrician and see what they think.