Does anyones 26 month old still not talk much?

Re: Does anyones 26 month old still not talk much?

• addison_clark

  August 2009

  My son just turned 2 this week, but he has a vocab of about 30-40 words.  The pedi said it is still within the normal ranges for his age.  I did have him in speech 1x/week too, but I quit bc I dont feel the program he was in was that helpful.  I am not worried though bc he understands everything we say, and he babbles all the time, and he picks up new words every week.  HOenstly, I think speech is one of the most varied skills kids pick up.  Some talk so early, some later, but eventually they all catch up to each other.

  Some things that I find helpful are to say loud words really excitedly like "BOOM!" and then start laughing.  He will think its funny and try to repeat me.  You can do this with any word. 

  Also, make a game of things, like say 1-2-3 GO!!!!!  And start running.  Then yell STOP! and of course stop suddenly (maybe even fall over exaggerating your stop)  Repeat this game over and over.  DS will start to say stop and go with me while we run and stop, run and stop, etc

  Last piece of advice that I have found to work with my DS is using sounds/noises.  DS can say ALL his animal sounds just won't say the animals names themselves!  But he likes sounds effects, so I am starting with that hoping that eventually he will be able to say dog instead of woof!  But also by mkaing all these different sounds I hope it gets him to used to saying other words with these sounds.

  My speech therapists advice is to use games to strengthen the mouth muscles like blow bublbes, blow horns/recorders, drink pudding through a straw, and constant repetition.  HTH! 

  

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• neverblushed member

  August 2009

  I don't have personal experience with this, but I have a few friends IRL whose kids hardly talked at 2 and then sometime between 2.5 and 3 went through a speech explosion and were well within the normal range by age 3.

  My nephew followed this pattern as well.  He hardly talked at all at 2, but you would never have known he was a late talker by age 4.  Now he's a very precocious 7th grader in all G/T classes!

  High School English teacher and mom of 2 kids:

  
  

  DD, born 9/06/00 -- 12th grade

  DS, born 8/25/04 -- 7th grade

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• bebemama member

  August 2009

  Thanks for both your suggestions and for your experiences. ?It's comforting to hear others stories and get support. ?I have days when it doesn't worry me or bother me at all and then others where I feel panicky about it. ?His progress has been steady but much slower then expected. ?In all other areas he is right on target or ahead.?

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• punkfiction

  August 2009

  aidan's verbal "boom" was about that age. even now i can understand 90% of what she says, but other people may not be able to. you just have to remember that she is actually exactly on target - even if it seems other kids are talking a lot more. don't worry as long as his receptive language is good - your ds will catch up verbally
  

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• brightning member

  August 2009

  I've never had issues with this, but my DD absolutely loves memorizing books and reading them back to me. Nice, short, easy, rhyming books with few words and pictures that give clues about the words. Maybe you could try something like that? We have the Skippyjon Jones board books (1-2-3, Shape Up, Colors) and my DD does really well with them.

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