Your child should be referred for speech/language therapy services if he or she exhibits any of the following:
 

• Not making eye contact and turn-taking with actions or vocalizations by six months of age, or not recognizing objects or pictures by 18 months

• Non-verbal or speaking only in single words at 2.5 years of age

• Unable to produce complete, complex sentences by age four

• Multiple errors in speech and is not understood by age three

• Inconsistent errors, unintelligible speech, extremely limited numbers of sounds

• Trouble recalling and using new information because of problems and language, attention and memory

• No friends because he or she is unable  to interact with others at an age-appropriate level, such as following rules or conversation

• Voice does not sound right.  For example, hoarse, raspy, breathy

• Stuttering

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