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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
When did your l/o begin to talk?
Hello Everyone,
My son just turned 14 months and he makes sounds and babbles constantly. He can express himself very well through sounds 
and he is excellent at following directions but everything I read says that he should be talking more by 14 months. Now I now every child is different but just wanted to get some feedback
Thanks so much!
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Re: When did your l/o begin to talk?
My son is just now starting to pick up and repeat what we say and he's 21/22months.
At 14 it was babbles... At like 18 he said momma, daddy. When asked what does elephant/monkey say, he'd make the noise.
At 20 he said nonna, papa, jiddo(grandpa/arbic) grandma... apple, turtle and few other choice words.
I'd say his vocab is just over 20 words and most came up recently. He is still babbling up a storm.
Our pedi said the typical child had between 4 and 10 words at 15 months.
DD has always been a talker. At 16 months she knows about 40 words. Many of them dont sound a lot like the actual word, but they are distinct and she knows what she is saying and so do I.
I wouldn't worry. If your LO is communicating, he is doing fine. Boys are usually slower to talk than girls, too.
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DD #1 could actually have a conversation at a year old. It was quite strange honestly. LOL
DD#2 has about 5-10 words in her vocabulary right now and only I know what she's saying
I've done the same things with both girls. Every child really is different.
At 15 months, if I was reaaaaaaaally stretching, she could "say" 5 words (I remember because the doc asked if she said 5 words and she barely did) but some were more sounds that meant the same thing than actual words.
By the time she was 16 months she started really talking but it seemed to come out of nowhere between 15 and 16 months.
She just started using small 2-3 word sentences recently, at around 21 months and talks a ton now, has easily 100 words.
14 months- momma, dada, our dog's name, book and not much else. He communicates through gestures and signs, eventhough we never really pushed sign language on him. Now, his vocabulary is really taking off. When they say there is a "vocabulary explosion" they aren't kidding. Now, he knows at least 30-40 words and comes up with new ones every day. My brother didn't talk until he was over 2, and ever since he hasn't shut up. Go figure.
DS is extremely verbal and started talking at 9 months. First words were momma, doggy, dadda in that order.
He is a very vocal 19 month old and repeats everything we say as well as asking "What's that?" a million times a day. He identifies animals and their sounds as well as when we look at books he can tell you what the things in the pictures are.
On the other side of the spectrum one of his friends is a month older and only says momma.
By 15 months DD2 had a few sounds that coordinated to words, like ma for mama, da for dada and dog, uh for up and out, and hi and yeah. Around 16 months she started saying them more clearly and by 17 months was talking regularly. At 19 months she's adding more words almost daily.
DD1, meanwhile, didn't start saying any words consistently until she was 20 months, but she figured it out quickly and was all caught up and talking in sentences by the time she was 2.
For young toddlers, receptive language is just as important as expressive language, so as long as your DS is understanding words and following simple directions, I don't think you need to be concerned yet.
My older son didn't really start talking until he was closer to 2.5. He had really good receptive language (he understood everything we said), but he was only saying single-syllable words, and didn't put two words together when he turned 2 (he said about 50 different words).
We got him evaluated, and he had a slight speech delay. He went to therapy once a week for six months, and caught up. But if I had to do it over, I think I would have just waited a few more months instead of taking him to speech therapy.
My 13-month-old babbles, and says maybe 4-5 words, and has about 4-5 hand gestures. I am not worried about it this time around.
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