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To reiterate, this is nothing to do with your parenting style, or anything you did or didn’t do. Some kids just need a little extra help.

At 15 months, I was concerned with my son’s speech development, but our pediatrician doesn’t do speech referrals until 18 months because she said a lot of times kids catch up in those 3 months. At 18 months we did an eval and he was behind…but not enough to qualify for Early Intervention through the state (we live in Tennessee). I had to really advocate for speech therapy, which our insurance covered. After a year and a half of individual and group speech therapy, he caught up. It was 100% worth the many, many appointments. I think eventually he would have caught up on his own, but being able to communicate his needs was really the biggest difference that we saw pretty quickly, and really cut down on tantrums.

There are also some good resources online – check out @raisinglittletalkers and @speechsisters on Instagram!