“I realized my son had a speech delay when I picked him up from daycare when he had just turned two, and all of his friends said goodbye using his first name,” writes Madison Boling. “My son couldn’t even say his own first name, but his friends could say their names as well as the names of every other kid in the class. I asked his teacher if she thought he was behind in speech. Within a couple weeks, his daycare’s director met with me to start a referral for speech therapy.”

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