Trey had a bad asthma flare-up 2 weeks ago. When I took him to the doctor I was told that he had an ear infection which probably caused the asthma flare-up. My pediatrician told me to go to the ENT for the 2 week recheck because his tubes were not working anymore & he wanted them replaced (due to his history of bad ear infections, past history of asthma flare-ups with ear infections & his speech delay). So we went today. His ear infection is gone & his lungs sound great. Trey is scheduled for a new set of tubes (his 3rd set) on Monday morning at 5:45. He was recently evaluated for Speech therapy & qualified for treatment. The therapist said he is speaking at a 17 month old level (he's 25 months old). He has started saying more just in the last 2 weeks but we are going to go ahead with ST, which will start in the next week or so. He passed all of the tests that they did except the communication part. He is right where he is supposed to be developmentally but a little behind with talking. The speech therapist & ENT both think that his history of multiple ear inections may have caused some of the delay. He understands everything we say to him & can follow through with everything we ask him to do but he just doesn't say much. As Marsha says, he sounds like Curious George! Just a lot of grunting. LOL!
Hopefully with a new set of tubes & speech therapy starting up, he will be talking our heads off soon!
