I cannot quite believe I am saying this, but I’m standing in the light. The metaphorical light, that is, at the end of the exceptionally long tunnel that has been our speech delay journey. When your speech delay journey starts, seeing the end of the …
It’s been a while since I last shared an update about Annabelle’s speech delay journey. My previous speech delay update was back in February of this year, but I guess frequent updates aren’t really necessary and that’s mainly down to speech delays not being a …
I’ll never forget those times where I felt as though something was wrong with my daughter. I just had this gut feeling. She was almost 3yrs old and her words consisted of “Dada” & “Hiya”. That was it. The books always tell you that they …
Firstly, I am not a teacher nor am I a trained speech therapist. However, I am a Mother with a speech-delayed daughter and we faced brick wall after brick wall with regards to getting any help – so I took it upon myself to look …
Since Annabelle’s tongue tie diagnosis in December 2015, preparing her for Primary school has been one of our top priorities. Of course, building that communication barrier with her was first & foremost our first building block. Then it’s been focusing on her attention span, learning …
Ever since I shared my last post about our speech delay journey things have changed so much. Annabelle has turned corners, hurdled fences and come along so much during the last few months and it is crazy the difference in her ability to communicate with …
A few weeks ago we saw Annabelle visit her first S.A.L.T {Speech and Language therapy} class. Before going, admittedly, I was assuming the worst {you knoooow, they’d be all judgy and opinionated or whatever}, but within moments of being there, I knew I’d be worrying …
I wrote a post a week or so ago called, My toddler has a tongue tie, but a few weeks after writing that we finally got the letter through the door, you know the little brown medical envelope – which got me so excited to …
