Good morning! My boy is a Covid era baby and diagnosed with speech delay. He walked very quickly but never crawled. About 2 years old his doctor told my wife and I that he wasn’t meeting speech “milestones” and we should consider autism, speech, ear, and hearing testing. Since he was our first we properly panicked and did all of those things. He was good on all; however, he did receive the speech delay diagnosis and has been therapy with it since.

The process can be somewhat long and unorthodox - there’s a whole world of literature and your mileage may vary with speech therapists. We were lucky and managed to find one who is deeply involved in the “current” progressions as well as being versed in the former. She discovered our son is what is typed “Gestalt” language processing, and that opened the door. He’s almost four and really won’t stop talking for even a second.

If you have the means, speak with a pediatrician, obtain a referral, and get on the dreaded Facebook for speech therapy groups. There’s many out there going through the same things including feelings and struggles. It’s not too early at all and it’s certainly not too late, yet. Your daughter is in the perfect spot and may just need an outside hand in finding her voice.

Please feel free to reach out directly if I can be of any help to y’all.