Speech Delay and things I do not understand in speech therapy industry

At 24m my child had less than 20 vocab, knowing that she missed the speech milestone I immediately start taking action by teach word by word showing actual item and match them to flash cards. And obviously I am also in line waiting for speech therapy.Now she is 26m and have acquired about 50-100words, I still do not see my child using phrases that is not being given to her. She can say “turn on lights”, “read a book” only because I say those words frequently to her. She is not able to assemble phrases by herself such as “more milk”, “mom’s shoes” etc.When I went to speech evaluation, two speech therapists told me that my child is fine with speech and do not recommend me to get speech therapy for my child. Seriously I do not see any child at her age other than autistic ones has to sit down and go through flash cards to learn words. And these speech therapist simply ignores the fact how hard my child tries to learn. This is def not normal.At this point I suspect that my child has learning disability and possible cerebral palsy as she walks on tip toes and I started to noticing that she is only able to walk up the stairs using her right foot. When I asked her to use her other foot, she is not able to do so. Not to mention when she walk up the stairs she is also not able to use left hand hold the wall and walk up the stairs. She has to use her right hand holding onto the rails to drag her body up.What I do not understand in speech therapy industry is that why these speech therapist would evaluate my child as normal? often they come in and ask a lot of autism related questions. I get it that they wanted to know if my child is autistic but a speech delay is a speech delay, regardless if the child is autistic or not. I don’t seem to understand why they are unwilling to take my case.I hate to say this as I am not load with money or anything, but I find it frustrating that I am willing to spend the money for speech therapy with insurance for my child and there’s no where for me to go. I can’t understand why these therapist thinks not able to combine phrases and not able to follow two step instructions is no big deal for 26m old toddler.If someone can clear my understanding, I would greatly appreciate your help so I can properly get my child to speech therapy. via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2XvIStk