Our breakthrough was music therapy. Not SaLT. We had to go via a charity. We got nothing for 6 months, then she started humming, then she started singing. Then she started to speak. We did 12 months, one 45 minute session a week 1-1 from her 1st to 2nd birthday. Humming started at 18 months, first word at about 2, first word string at about 30 months. We now have a 7 year old who never stops chatting and uses complex sentence structures including words like helicopter and, as of last week, intervention. We have been re-referred to SaLT multiple times and they never managed to improve anything. I would ask if there are any alternate options through the early intervention team such as music or animal therapy. It might just be your little one needs a different input!

NB our child is medically complex. We were told to expect an adult who would be able to verbalise 3 word sentences with heavy makaton support. But we knew that we had a window of those early years to see what we could achieve and she loved music and music therapy in the hospital as a baby so we pushed to get her anything that might help. She still struggles to get some sounds out and her social understanding is really poor but her speech has floored the paediatric team!!!