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Hello everyone, my name is and I have a 22 month old son who has been

diagnosed with a language delay with possible oral motor disorder. (I also have

a 7 yo dd, and 5 1/2 yo ds who were early talkers...dd is dyslexic and I

homeschool the two older kids).

I have been questioning myself all along as to whether or not I am jumping the

gun in getting a speach eval and therapy. I have well meaning grandparents

telling me he is just the 3rd child and that is why he isn't talking. The

things that alerted me to a potential problem were the fact that he was slightly

low tone, had feeding problems that we did not get therapy for, but in hindsite

should have, when he forms words he uses his mouth in strange ways like moving

his jaw and/or tongue from side to side. He does have some words that he uses

spontaneously, but very few that are consistent. He has just recently started

saying mama relatively consistently though he hasn't said it at all today. He

did not babble much as a baby and just started attempting to mimic at about

19-20 months.

Originally my insurance said they would cover the ST, but now they have denied

the claim. I called and they said it was appropriately denied which we will be

appealing.

I anyone has advice for me or input as to whether it is too soon to really be

getting therapy I would appreciate it. My dd started talking at 9 months and

was speaking in sentences by 20 months and my other son was speaking fairly well

by the age of two, so my experience has been the opposite extreme. I realize

now how unusual it was for them to be so articulate, but now I don't know what

is a realistic expectation. I also know how important early intervention is

based on my experience with my daughters dyslexia (and possibly more mildly in

my 5 yo) and I know that early language delay is the earliest indicator of

dyslexia (though not necessarily an indicator).

TIA,