羊羊的语言发育迟缓问题我和羊爸已经叨咕1年多了。经历了“等等看--找找看--没找到，再等等看--不行，继续找”如今终于找到了“组织”。羊羊的speech therapy终于要开始啦：约了人过两天到家里给羊羊做 ????uation. 如果羊羊的语言发育水平在35%以下，就会有少儿心理学家来做另5个方面的????uation，排除其他因素。之后羊羊就可以接受免费的speech therapy了。（不过这两天羊羊突然有长进了，可能会超过35%。郁闷！）

下面给大家抄点儿Early Intervention Program的特具煽动性的宣传材料:

"Don't worry." These two words have often discouraged parents and have prevented many children with developmental delays from getting what they need: early screening and identification, and appropriate intervention. Despite the fact that there is a direct correlation between early identification and improved develpment, parents with concerns about their children are often told not to worry. "Don't worry...boys develop more slowly. Don't worry...she'll grow out of it. Don't worry...Einstein was a late talker too. Don't worry...just give it a few months."

Some examples:
"We first noticed that our son was not developing speech. up until about a year, he had met all his milestones, and it seemed like he was OK except his language wan't coming...So we went to a doctor and voiced our concers. And he said don't worry about it, that he was a boy and boys usually develop speed later. Just continue talking to him, reading books, and language would come."(Parents of a child who had concerns about their child at 15 months; he was diagnosed with a Developmental Disorder almost two years later.)

Another parent remembers, "I wanted to believe that nothing was wrong. My pediatrician suggested we see a specialist just to rule it out -- I believe she said, 'What do we have to lose?'In retrospect, I now understand just what we would have lost if we hadn't found out about my son's autism at age 2. We would have lost valuable time; we would have wasted my son's potential. Now, after three years of special interventions, my son has made more progress than if we had waited."

结论就是
While some chilfren who are delayed in a specific area may outgrow this problem spontaneously, it is very important that parents and others do not count on this happening. Parents should seek out aprropriate professionals and pursue intervention and/or treatment as early as possible.

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