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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
amberdl28
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21 month old son losing words
amberdl28
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Hi, my DS is 21 months old. He doesn't say many words. He use to say more but now wont say the words he use too. He use to say fish, buh bye, his cousins name, and others. Now he will only say dada, kitty, yes, and sometimes mama but usually when hes mad. He grunts, points goes eh eh eh when he wants stuff. He knows what im saying and can point out what he wants, He shakes his head no and can point to things in a book that we ask him to find. He jsut wont speak hardly at all. Once in a while he will say something but wont ever repeat it.
Would you be worried? Im starting to worry that he isn't even trying to say words. I read that at 2 they should be saying 50 words. Well does that mean as they turn 2 or 2 years 11 months.
My mom 10/8/1959-10/31/2011
Dylan
Dylan
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Re: 21 month old son losing words
I honestly would have him evaulated by an early childhood specialist/intervention place. If anything it will at least offer you piece of mind that something is/isn't going on. Does he offer eye contact? It sounds as though he still communicates with you, which to me is a plus. It may be a phase b/c he has gotten what he wants without actually talking as well. I am just offering different thoughts on this...I have a feeling it may be something minor in the grand scheme of things considering he can point to things you ask him to find, etc. but I would get him evaulated even if it's just for speech.
HTH
Get him evaluated if you are concerned. Better safe than sorry.
My little one has quite a few words but she seems to get tired of them and moves on. She rarely says the old ones any more.
DD is the same way. She's been evaluated by a speech therapist, but they basically said because her comprehension and hearing are fine that they are going to wait until 2 and evaluate her again. I've seen a huge improvement in the number of words between 21 months and 23 months. I would bring it up at your next appointment.
Other people I have talked with who have kids with larger vocabularies still do the eh eh eh whine thing instead of using words, so I don't think that's abnormal.
When you say he "used to say them," are these words he would use spontaneously and appropriately? When he sees his cousin does he try to vocalize at all? When he used to say "buh-bye," was that at appropriate times spontaneously, and now he doesn't?
In my mind, if they are words he used to REPEAT and now won't, I wouldn't worry a bit.
BUT if they are things he used to initiate and use appropriately to communicate and suddenly doesn't do it, I would worry.
The ability to speak is fickle and comes and goes in spurts and plateuas, no big deal. But generally when kids master a social, communicative skill and then lose it, I do worry. FTR, my son says about 4 words, on occasion, "Boobies, Daddy, and DDDDDD (with a remote thrust at me is "dora," And he says map, from dora. And this weekend he's learned no. But I do not worry at all. If he had more words and cut back, yes. And I would get him evaluated.
Good luck. For what it's worth nine out of, well nine times, all the things I thought were big deals in the past have been nothing, just my kids doing things on their own terms. Odds are your DS is perfect, but if he qualifies for speech, it's a blast, it's fun, it's play, not work for them. Good luck!