Speech development

I just wondered if anyone has any experience with their child being slightly behind in speech. My son can say so much, some of it is just not as clear as others his age. I don’t compare him to other children, they all do things at their own pace, personally I think he’s fine. He was 3 in December, he started preschool in the September and has come on leaps and bounds since then. He’s learnt so many more words/sayings/sentences, and also built up his communication and how to ask for things both verbally and non verbally. He gets a bit stuck on the ck sound and can’t do that yet, but he’s trying. Has anyone else had experience of their child being slightly behind in speech? What did you do to help? When did you notice a difference? Thank you!

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My little one is 3.5 and she's really behind in speech almost non verbal and we had her tested per peds and she was diagnosed with ADHD/ASD 50/50 we re test for better diagnosis in a few months. In the mean time. Therapy is what they have her one and preschool for her with therapy

Is that speech therapy? My son shows no signs of any neurodivergence & neither us or his preschool think he has any. Not that there would be an issue if there because there isn’t! It’s literally just being slightly behind on speech/not as clear as others. He is on the waiting list for speech and language therapy but we all know waiting lists aren’t short 🤦🏼‍♀️

I always learned walkers before talkers and talkers before walkers. My daughter was so advanced with all her milestones but was speech delay. She’s doing so much better now she’s going to be four in July. She went to speech therapy and it has improved a lot, she still has a long way to go, when she talks it’s almost rushed like she’s too lazy to talk a full sentence so she will try to half ass do it but it’s definitely gotten better lol

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