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Caroline
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Posted: May 05 2006 at 5:51pm \| IP Logged

My 25 month old had an evaluation with Early Start earlier in the week and it went well. They sent me the summary of the evaluation which shows that he has a 60% expressive speech delay (which doesn't surprise me), but also a 12% receptive speech delay which they say is in the normal range.

My question is, is it common to have a small receptive delay if there is an expressive delay? Is this something I should be worrying about at all? He's my only kid and I tend to get a little worked up about him sometimes.

Any advice would be appreciated.

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Posted: May 10 2006 at 11:49am \| IP Logged

It's very normal, particularly in boys. I wouldn't be too concerned. Will he be getting any therapy to help with the expressive delay? If so you'll be amazed to see how quickly it all improves. Work with the therapist and have them give you things to do with him that will increase his language. Usually matching games, singing, lots of reading and pointing and naming things.

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Posted: May 10 2006 at 3:29pm \| IP Logged

Thanks for replying! Yes, he will be getting speech therapy. His IFSP is scheduled for this Friday, so I'll know more then. I think the plan is therapy once a week for an hour.

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