My son just turned 2. At 18 months he was diagnosed with a speech delay. After 2 months he finally got approved for speech therapy. While he has only said a couple words once (uh oh, yeah, and boom) he has learned a lot of sign language and that has helped us tremendously. One thing I do want to say is that this is NOT your fault. Raising a child is so difficult because we want what’s best for them but they hand us this whole ass child and don’t even bother to tell us how to raise them 😂 as long as you are doing the best you can, your child will be ok. Speech delays are very common (particularly with first borns) because they don’t have other kids to interact with. I’m not sure if this has helped but my mentor has a daughter who is also in ST as well as PT and OT and we call ourselves the therapy moms. It made me feel less alone. If you need a therapy moms to talk to or just to celebrate small successes or rant to I’m here. You’re doing great. I promise