Hello, I'm new here so please bear with me whilst I get used to everything!
Our son has just turned 2 in mid September. He is a very bright and happy little boy, not to mention active! He especially loves birds and planes! But we are aware that the amount of words he can say is very limited compared to other children he has grown up with. We know that you shouldn't compare, but looking at the other 5 children, that are all around the same age, (2 months younger maximum.) All our son can say is "daddy, baby, byebye plane, shoes, two and mummy. I only heard him say mummy the other week when he was really poorly and he woke up in the night and called out for me. This was at 23 months old!! Most children are saying this at 6 months! Also, he recognises animals and makes the sounds that they make (e.g. Oink oink or Moo), but he won't say 'Piggy' or 'Cow'. We have always talked to him, shown him things taken him places so whay won't he talk? Its so frustrating! Its not as if he even attempts to repeat what we say to him. I try and ask him if he has had a good day at nursery, did he do painting,/ crayons / play in the garden etc but he sits there looking blank in the back of the car. Talking of nursery his carers say he has this thing about hugging other children, which sounds cute, but he over hugs them and can end up hurting the poor child he was hugging! My DH and me feel like its us against the world, both sets of Grandparents won't have a bad word said against him and keep telling us "oh it'll come, he'll be talking by the time he goes to school" but our argument is that he should be talking more now!! I mentioned it to our health visitor who is going to assess him for his 2 year old check up in October, and I know its only a matter of days away, but seems like ages away. When I told her that he said Mummy for the first time the other day I got a reply of "well its not a case of he can't say it, but that he won't say it". I know she's right, but it didn't help me much as I could've come to that conclusion myself!
Is there anything we can do? We have thought of so many things it could be, we've tried to be rational. We've been thinking about this since he was 12 months, we kept saying "when he gets to 15 months" then "when he gets to "18 months" These little milestones seem to come and go but with only small improvements. Are we being too hasty? Over anxious?? Any suggestions would be gratefully recieved as we've spent so many late nights, like this one, trying to work out what we can do for our DS.
Thank you so much for your time. I'm sorry its such a long message for a first posting. Looking forward to hearing your replies. Kind Regards, Rebecca.
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2 year old boy with very limited speech.. what is normal??
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becca81 · 25/09/2005 23:05
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