Megan Dial-Lapcewich, of Oxford, Iowa, knew her 3-year-old son Eddie was falling behind developmentally with his speech. She said she could only understand about 50 percent of what he said, when at that point in his development, she should be able to understand 75 percent.
She said Eddie’s developmental delay in speech caused some frustrations at home as he tried to communicate with the family but couldn’t get his point across.
Dial-Lapcewich said she decided to get his delay checked out after a teacher at the in-home play school she takes Eddie to mentioned it. His speech delay was later confirmed by Eddie’s doctor…