How Do I Get My Litttle Girl to Start Talking? AND... I Need a New Childcare

Look into Our Little Angels Private School in Flowermound. It is much less expensive than Primrose ($205 a week). My son is not yet in the 2 year old class, but I have met and really like all of the teachers. The owner takes a personal care with each child, and they will always work with the teachers and parents to meet each individual child's needs. They work diligently to help my little boy learn simple new words, and I sure they would for your little girl too. You have to experience the difference to see how great this place is. Every morning I know I leave Noble with people who truely love him. If you check them out, I would appreciate you mentioning that I referred: S. Gilliland

Bethany,
Has she ever had problem's with her hearing? Sometimes that can cause a child problem's with learing how to verbalize. It wouldn't hurt to have your ped. check it out.
Also, if you want to give me a call we can talk about Childcare....###-###-####.
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My son was about the same as far as the number of words he could say before he was two. I won't go into ECI detail because someone else did, but I encourage you to call them for an eval. Keep up your reading. Also notice whether or not she knows and can point to pictures in a book when you say the word. Try to see if she is understanding you and can follow simple commands. I have also heard that signing can actually delay speech because they don't have to work so hard at being understood. I don't know if there is any truth to that, though. Also, try to get her to at least make a sound before you give her what she wants, then repeat what it is before giving it to her. I can give you more info if you would like it. The thing I think helped the most aside from witholding things until a sound is made, is a video called Baby Babble. He loved this! It's kind of low-budget Baby Einsteinish, but he worked so hard on copying the sounds. He wanted to watch it every day. He is fine now, BTW. His speech "exploded" right after he turned 2. He all the sudden could say just about everything he had learned in books. Good luck! Feel free to send me a message if you have any questions!

I had early intervention come to my house to help my daughter now she is 3 they stopped coming but I practice with her 24-7. not in preschool yet but she can subtract so see if you have early intervenation around where you live

Hi Bethany - I echo the recommendation to get an ECI evaluation. Someone else already recommended ReadyStart (ITIP - old name). I'm on the Board of Directors for ReadyStart and highly recommend them - they provide ECI services - they will come to your home for all services & will also go to daycare - this is so the entire family /community is involved. It's a great service.

I'm also the co-founder of MomCheck - www.momcheck.com. We secret shop daycares & also have an online database of all daycares in DFW. We've secret shopped most of Lewisville, and the reports are online (and we're still free) We don't look at in-home daycares, so I can't give you any help there, but if you're thinking of traditional daycare, our site is a place to start - you can search by rates, hours, etc. Feel free to PM me with any questions, I'd be more than happy to help.

Good luck!

If you have a Primrose pre School near you check it out. They have a very good learning curriculum. They are franchised so you will need to check out your nearest school and ask questions about the owner, teacher turn over, qualification of teacher and screening, etc.

please check out http://itipnt.org/ and request an evaluation. it seems that your child will qualify for early childhood intervention services based on the delay.

Hi there! My son is 2 also, and on the advice of our pediatrician, we've just had ECI (early childhood intervention)come to evaluate him to make sure all is well and to give us some assistance on helping him talk. It's free for 6 months, and then your insurance would kick in, or they'll do a pay schedule based on your income. I would ask your pediatrician about that...my husband insists nothing is "wrong" with him, and I agree, but we still need to get some ideas on how to help him, you know? They only work with children up to 3, so it's something you should look into soon. They've only come once so far for the evaluation, but I got tons of things to do already, and Joseph's started speaking kinda out of the blue since then. They will come once/month with a speech therapist and will give us "homework" to work on for the month, until the next visit. They're professionals, so they'll know after seeing your daughter (free, and no commitments) what direction, if any, is needed (better than moms who don't know your daughter). Sometimes it could be something really simple, and would be appreciated to learn some quick tips. Other times it may take a little more work, but having professionals in that circumstance would be great too, ya know? That's our take on it at least.
Within a week of our evaluation, I heard him knock something over and said "young man, are you throwing a tantrum?" and he said "No I not" (shock!) and yesterday I was sitting on the couch with his dad, and he handed his dad his cup and said "dada...(pointed at me) mama give me more!" We had no idea he knew these words. One of the big (easy) things we learned was when reading books, point at the pictures and ask what they are. My son would just touch the picture but not saying anything, but now when reading his fruit salad book, he'll say "nan" for banana and very clearly say "bowl". That's enough about him though....I don't think the lack of speech is always a bad thing, but it's still something you may well want to get checked out.