ShiraH

Mama of 15 month old-

We have three kids and 2 of the 3 were later to talk than is typical (with only a handful of words before age 2), and our doc wasn’t concered and generally said she doesn’t recommend any intervention until after age 2 and never flagged this as developmentally behind. My father (child psychologist) and friend (speech and language pathologist) were concerned so we did request an evaluation by early intervention for our first kiddo (she started talking more literally the day they arrived so didn’t need services). If this is just about speech it seems like there is a wide variation in concern by doctor, but if you have any concerns based on the doc’s eval, for us it’s free to request an early intervention assessment and they come to your home, so it was relatively easy to set up. With our 3rd kiddo who has followed the same pattern we just waited and he’s just started talking more (he just turned two) so just seemed to follow the same pattern as her and we weren’t concerned.