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Since Tommy was a baby I tried to get services for Speech therapy. I knew other infants with the same diagnosis than my son were receiving Speech Therapy. I requested Speech therapy through the Early Intervention Program (EIP), but it was denied because Tommy's Pragmatics skills, according to a private paid evaluation, were in the 9-12 month level and Gesture skills were emerging at the 9-12 month level when he was 8 month. When Tommy was 13 month, we did other private paid evaluation because I observed lack of expressive communication, even although he was saying "mama", "dada" and "hi"; He was also signing "more" and all done". But he wasn't combining gesture with pointing! The evaluation showed Tommy's receptive language was in the average range, but his expressive communication was delay. Currently, the gap between our son's expressive and receptive language communication is huge.

Tommy has received Speech therapies from the EIP and private paid therapists. All his therapists agree Tommy has good receptive language comprehension. Since he said his first word "Hi" beside mama and dada at his 13 months, his expressive language communication has slowly progressed. But I am conscious that he is being raised in a bilingual environment, which is making it harder for him. But my husband and I decided to take advantage of mother nature because babies have a natural faculty to understand any language until they are about 6 months old, after this, the brain shots it down. But if the baby keep listening more than one language, the comprehension for these languages naturally keep progressing.

Since Tommy began to independently walk five moths ago, we has noticed his expressive communication began to progress a little faster. Last week, Tommy added 6 new words to the list, those are: purple, red, kick, walk, world and guapo (handsome). His Speech Therapist thinks Tommy is holding the word he knows off for her. I agree because it is the same pattern we have observed in his gross motor skills.

• Tommy has a vocabulary of 70 words, but he constantly hear 38 words. The words are there it is just matter of time when he decides to constantly use them.
• Tommy says 9 expression, but he constantly use 8.
• Tommy says 11 sounds (animals/vehicles) and he constantly use all of them.
• Tommy has combined two-words, but it has been inconsistent.
  

Tommy's expressive communication skills
keep progressing which is the most
important for us.