Dealing with speech delays

Sometimes I feel like our family gets given everything and not necessarily in a good way. On top of everything that's already going on we now have Ryker's speech delays to deal with. I think this is something that we should have been prepared for but for some reason it was thrown in the back of our mind. That is until the pediatrician commented on the fact my child wasn't saying much besides "ca" for car and "da" for dad. We were thinking maybe he wasn't able to hear very well, but once we had his hearing tested and that came back fine(thank you God!) we decided it was time to tackle this issue. We're trying to choose what our next step is going to be, but until we hear back from the speech therapist we're trying to work on it at home. It's hard though, out of all the issues my kids have this is the one that seems to be the hardest for me to deal with. Brooke was never a kid who needed help speaking, aside from a couple words, she basically came out saying full sentences and talking up a storm so it's hard to figure how to get a kid to talk. I thought back to all the things I did with her and every single thing was the same that I am doing with Ryker. Except for one thing, she had people talking to her from the moment she was born. She was constantly read to, sang to, and just heard conversations all the time. Ryker didn't have that for his first year of life which is probably the most important time to have all those things, that's when they start mimicking everything and start making words be words. I'm hoping and praying that with the attention we're going to be giving him and the extra reading and singing will encourage him to try to mimic the words were saying. Wish us luck!