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 …
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 …
Tongue tie: noun. 1. A Malformation which restricts the movement of the tongue and causes a speech impediment. In the middle of December 2015, Annabelle, who was one month shy of turning three finally got her 2yr assessment from her Health Visitor. I’ll be honest, …
