Hunter's Speech therapy experience

It was a random fine day when we noticed that Hunter had a strawberry-shaped tongue when he stuck out his tongue at us. This was when he was about 14 months old.

Look at his tongue

As a FTM, I was very concerned and immediately scheduled a visit to the polyclinic. After the doctor looked at his tongue, they gave a referral to NUH as well as to a speech therapist since Hunter has a speech delay.

So, we went to the first session at CDU @JMC.

The doctor was very good and she managed to engage Hunter during the first visit. There were a couple of forms to fill up and also a checklist to see if Hunter was exposed to excessive screen time. She also reminded us that young kids should not be watching too much TV/youtube.

Subsequently, we went for another 3 visits, 2 speech therapy session and a development milestone assessment. Luckily, the results were normal and all pointed to his tongue tie for his speech delay.

After much consideration, we decided to bite the bullet and brought Hunter to do the tongue tie surgery.

After he recovered from the surgery (about 1 week), he started blabbering. And at the subsequent visit, the speech therapist and doctor discharged him as he made leaps and bounds in his speech development.

After this experience, the learning point that I took away is that early intervention is key, and if the tongue tie had been diagnosed earlier, we could have gone for the laser surgery instead of GA.

At the same time, we are tremendously lucky that Hunter is a healthy boy.

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