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@Cole: Back story. I have had concerns about my sons speech since he was 18 months old. I have years of experience with 18 month - 5 year old and I just felt something was off. He was at a preschool that did speech with the kids so I didn't worry too much. At 2 we moved him to a different school and brought up my concerns to the pediatrician. Since he used 2 word sentences and he said words (even if we couldn't understand him) he was fine.

So I pursued a private therapist for speech evaluation because I wanted to be told I was crazy. He was 6 months behind in expressive speech. We started private therapy. About a month in he had his first ear infection, on antibiotics he went from 2 word sentences to 4 and 5 word sentences. Then within 3 weeks of being off antibiotics his speech teacher couldn't understand the words he said the week before.

All of his hearing tests were normal. But we decided to do tubes for speech because of abnormal typanograms. He has had tubes for 5 weeks and he just wasn't making the huge leaps and bounds we had hoped. So our other thought was apraxia.

But he turned 3 in mid April and I decided to pursue the school district.