When did your LO start talking

MrsPrice

My son will be 22 months in a few days and I remember at his 18 month old appointment, the doctor said it will be a huge increase in talking from then until he turns two.  He says a few words, but he still mostly does a lot of baby talk.  He's very vocal but it's mostly baby talk.  He says words like mama, dada, yay, ball, go, and wow, but he doesn't say a lot of other words or say two word sentences.  I read to him every night and I talk to him all the time about what I'm doing when I'm with him and going over his day with him.  Are there some other things I can be doing to increase his vocabulary?  When did you little one start talking and is my baby late in the talking field? I'm just worried that come his 24 month check up the doctor is going to say he needs to see some sort of specialist because he isn't saying real words more.  He does understand when you tell him stuff. And if he wants something he comes and grabs your hand and takes you to what he wants and puts your hand on it.  I try to tell him to say whatever he is trying to get me to do when he is taking me to get something.  Another thing is he isn't in daycare or anything. My uncle watches him during the day when I'm at school and work, so he doesn't have a lot of interaction with little kids either. 

jason&robin

My son had a delay and didn't really start talking until almost 2.5. DD is behind too but she babbles more than her brother did at this age. She is 20 months and says daddy, dog, car, poop, up. She said Hi Daddy once on her own and will try to copy you if you tell her to say something...like thank you.

I would just recommend that you commentate as much as possible. If he is doing something, tell him what he is doing. We work on lots of animal and actions sounds like weeeeeee and zooooooom. If she is running or jumping, I will say jump jump jump. or run run run. eat eat eat. That's my best suggestion.

From my knowledge, kids are supposed to have up to 250 words at 2 and be able to use 1-2 word phrases. If you are concerned, I would definitely check it out. Worst case, they find him to be completely normal and there is nothing to do. If they do find that he is in need of services, you can start him sooner rather than later when he has more expectations.

Good luck

BritClen

I've heard that boys and girls are different, but DD started taking right before she turned one..she only said a couple words but about 13 14 months she really became a chatty cathy...now she repeats just about everything I say and is putting words together...

I found the more reading I did with her the more words she learned. I also went and got flash cards to help her learn words and shapes...I also started counting just about everything...stairs, pieces of food, toes...oh yea and songs, DD picks up on songs I sing to her...row row your boat, patty cake, abc's, and her favorite little bunny fu fu..

in the end all kids are different, my niece is the same age as DD and she is not talking I think it has allot to do with their personality, DD is very out going and not shy at all as my niece is shy and likes to stay close to mommy

katekirschner

My DD has been very verbal and started saying some words like ball and book by 10 months or so. Now she talks all.day.long. She can sing the abc's and twinkle twinkle little star. That being said, my nephew who is a month older than she is only has about 10 words. I have heard that boys are verbal later than girls sometimes. I think it's important to see if he understands what you ask him though... Like "go get the book" and if he does that his receptive language (?) is developing well.

2-Step

My DS has about 50-60 words, but doesn't yet put them into sentances beyond bye dada or dog ball kick, which isn't really a sentance I don't think. He is 20 months and we have an appointment on Friday, but at his last one his pedi said he was doing great on language.

water-fairy

I'd say at 18 months. He only had a few words before that. Now he repeats everything, has over 100 words that uses frequently (I'll hear him count or say the alphabet before bed). No words put together in phrases though. It was like a word explosion once it started. He is growing up in a trilingual environment (I speak Albanian to him. DH is Italian so we speak Italian when we are together... And then there is English, because everyone else speaks that.). Surprisingly enough he has more words in English (the least used language in this house) than the other two languages put together. Go figure.