These are the general guidelines that parents may use to know if a child is developing at a normal pace. Of course, every child is different. Every child has its own unique developmental milestones. Some children may “grow out” speech delay to finally fill-up the gap in their speech development but others don’t. The most painful realization for me as a mother is that my child was so frustrated that other cannot understand her; she finally lost her speaking confidence. I think this was the worst.