Re: 29 month old slow with speech

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my son was tongue tied and it really impacted his speech. The issue is that the

tongue muscle is atrophied. He doesn't know how to move it around correctly in

his mouth-thus certain sounds are not pronounced or mispronounced. The therapist

needs to be doing exercises to increase his tongue mobility and it will help

with some sounds. Try to get him to stick his tongue out and lick things, push

the toothbrush out of his mouth as you are brushing his teeth, lick things off

of the top lip, etc. For my son it took us nearly a year for him to stick his

tongue out, another year working on the upward motion. He had the tie cut at 12

months and at 3 1/2 he's still working on range of motion.

putting my son on fish oils made a HUGE difference in his speech pronunciation.

We started with nordic naturals 369 jr, then Nordic Naturals 369 and now are on

the ProEFA/ProEPA mix. He loves them (calls it lemon candy) and he went from not

talking at all, to mimicking words/sounds and attempting words in three days.

It was amazing.

Liralen

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> My 29 month old is very delayed in speech. I'm not sure exactly what he has.

He had speech therapy twice a month through Early intervention and the speech

pathologist noticed he was tongue tied. Now it's been over a month that his

tongue is free and he still has trouble talking. He has no trouble repeating

'bababa', 'gagaga', etc...the problem is he can't repeat actual words like

toddlers his age can. For example dog is gug, clock is ku, etc...I sort of feel

like the speech therapy is dragging on with no progress. I'm scared he might

have apraxia and will never talk. I don't know what else to do..

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