r/speechdelays

My little guy is 26 months and only has 1 solid word “me” which he uses to express want. He has great interaction with others and has great imaginative play so I don’t really see him on the spectrum. He had been going to an in home daycare until the beginning of the summer when mom finished work for the summer(she teaches). The in home was a lovely motherly type who only had one other child. Now he is going to the daycare located at my job with roughly 10 other kids and is much more structured.

My question is does anyone have experience with sending their delayed child’s to a more structured daycare? Did you have good or bad experiences?

What and how did they eventually start? How are they doing now?

Does anyone have any recommendations on free speech therapy apps? All the ones I see advertisements for are $20+ a month.

I would also love recommendations on ones you do pay for that are worth it.

Thanks!

My son is 16 months and I’m looking for some perspective on his speech/language development. His words seem to come in small burst. I’ll have a week where I hear several new words/attempts, followed by a week where it feels like nothing is happening/back to status quo.

What most concerns me is that his words come and go. I have a list of about 10 words that I have heard more than a handful of times and have been able to promo ñ him to say: ball, duck, bear, mama, bye, boo, up, down, more, all done, blow, pop, bath. And a secondary list of 11 words (21 in total) that I have heard 1 to 4 times for example book, open, thank you, please

That being said even heavily used words will suddenly disappear. He used to say “more” when prompted, but I haven’t been able to get him to say it for the past couple of days. He also hasn’t said “all done” recently.

Otherwise, he is very social and communicative: he points, reaches to communicate, uses eye contact, imitates actions (smelling a flower, pretending to sleep), brings us books/objects, engages in back-and-forth interactions, tons of jargon and seems to understand a lot. I do believe we have made some consistent gains with receptive language but expressive is very touch and go.

My questions are:
Is it normal at 16 months for words to come and go like this?

Would you be concerned about him not using words like “more” or “all done” for several weeks? Or just overall stopping to attempt previously practice words.

Does this overall pattern sound like typical uneven language development, or would you be concerned about a speech/language delay?

I’m trying to look at the overall picture rather than obsess over every individual word, but I’d really appreciate perspectives from parents who have experienced something similar. I have reached out to 2 SLP but both told me to wait until 18 months. I am doing many things to practice at home but I am feeling so defeated.

I have a 34 month old boy.
And he has more than 200 words
Speaks 2-3 word sentences , quite alot lately.
Things that worry me.
Handflaps when excited. Still jot asking questions except when someone knocks at the door . He will ask:”who’s there?”
Asnwers questions with yes or no. Mostly the “no” questions.
If you ask him:wherr is daddy?
He will reply:work(if he doest see his dad at home)
but wont answers questions with when,why.
Not using prounaunces(I,you,we etc..)( i never modeled infact)