delayed motor skills and language

[kasia]

hearing may be involved

If children are not speaking properly they may not be hearing properly or they may be hearing properly but not processing what is heard properly. they can only repeat what they hear and process.
Sound therapy can often give good results

 

[mulk]

Good point, Kasia. We had our son's hearing evaluated at Adventist before we consulted with a speech therapist.

 

[Valencia]

My daughter's speech problem has a lot to do with her sucking a pacifier, and her speech therapist confirmed this, which explains why she had little lip movement. She doesn't have any hearing problem, as shown by her hearing test.

 

[avina]

My son is now 20months but he cannot master even mama or papa, he is just sure to say "milk" for now. I am so worry that he has autism, he also has a problem of not having eye-contact with people talking to him. Can anyone help to give me some referrals of private doctors or good speech therapist in HK? So worry, me and and husband could not sleep well for many months !

 

[Lylah]

Avina,
We saw a speech therapist and child psychologist for my son's evaluation when we were first told that my son had mild autism. Both specialists ruled out even the mildest form of autism and just concluded that my son had speech delay (we were not advised to go into therapy at that time since he was too young 24 months), he is now 2 years and 7 months and has since started talking (he can now even say his A-B-C's). I do not have the contacts of these people with me right now, but will get them for you later today.
Lylah

 

[beckveldman]

Just to answer the original post, in case Tammie or others are actually still looking for public health options:

The Queen Mary Hospital has an outpatient facility that does paediatric assessment and follow-up through the public system, using a team assessment approach comprising physio/OT/speech therapy.

Your child needs to be a resident of Hong Kong (if an expat, a photocopy of visa in child's passport will do), and your GP needs to give you a referral.

http://www.ha.org.hk/hesd/nsapi/?MIval=ha_view_content&c_id=100131



I don't know what your exact situation was with your son, what delays he was exhibiting etc., but I just wanted to say I hope you weren't put off by well-meaning people telling you it was too early to seek assessment and early intervention. I'm not meaning that as an attack on others who have replied, but I realise that a lot of people are unfamiliar with delays that are apparent in early infancy (low or high tone issues, etc) that definitely do need early follow-up.

Motor delays and early pointers to future speech problems are certainly able to be detected at under one year of age, and positive intervention at a very young age through appropriate play-based therapies are exceedingly effective in young infants where the brain is still developing at a very fast rate.

My son is an ex-prem with motor issues, so I have a pretty firm basis for saying this! He has been monitored by a combined therapy team since birth.

Trust all is going well with your son!

 

[avina]

Speech delay

Thanks Lylah. I hope my son is the same case with you, because I am really scared of "autism". Happy to hear that your son can say lots of words now. I will be patient. I found a speech specialist in Central, but they say I should wait until he is 2 and a half years old, because my son just had a heart surgery last Sept. Gee, raising a kid is not so easy, many many issues to worry !

 

[buslli]

Hi Lyla

Would you beable to send me the names and contacts of the speech therapist and child phsycologist? Tks

 

[Lylah]

Sorry for taking a while. Have been very busy with work, but here are the people we saw:

Rainy Chan
Speech Therapist
Rehabilitation Centre
Hong Kong Adventist Hospital
(852) 2574 6211
Her personal numbers are as follows: (852) 28350558/ (852) 96548231

Dr. Tommy Chan
Clinical Psychologist
16/F Hing Wai Bldg, 36 Queens' Road Central HK
Tel: (852) 2526 5929
Mobile: (852) 9832 4905


Hope that helps!

 

[Nicole]

Hi, My happy, sweet, mellow, fun son is 3 years and 4 months old..My son has been diagnosed with PDD-NOS called pervasive Developmental Disorder last summer in Boston children medical hospital. It was a long long frustrated and depressed progress. From there, I have been running around like an headless chicken, trying to educated myself from book to book, from specialist to specialist to study and understand what's all about PDD, and started to getting deeper to get into Autism research and case study. all the valuable resources that helps parents. I want to help my kid and how to be a brave mother from a fragile one!

I can share about my experiences on my son's treatment, playtime, research play groups, Specialist available in Hong Kong and book that helps the parents.

My advice is, as a mother instincts, if you feeling something is not quite right about about child, DON'T sit and wait, get a proper specialist to look at him, and get HELP!!

Speech delay, is another developmental delay it might link to other area....these days, it is so easy to label and diagnosed the child..but it depends mild to severe. Speech delay or other developmental delays has wide range types...My son is having a articulation problems...my son's understanding of languages is 100%, BUT express is not there yet! So you have to focus on what your son's need, so you can measure the right therapy for him.

Is he, or her just having a speech delay? or other problems..like behaviour problems?

The books that I mentioned:

1. Teach me how to say it right
2. Childhood Speech, Language & Listening problem

If your child has behaviour problems...Trying to have a look:
ABA Therapy (called, Applied behaviour Analyst)

Note: Whatever developmental delay for your child, the therapy's are pretty much same. Its about: Floor time (another word, playtime..Its all about playing and engaged with your child.

if you want to know more about, feel free to email me!!

Love and support your loving child...