My DS has been saying single words for a several months now, but his pronunciation is way off, e.g. milk is 'muh', birds are 'buh', aeroplane comes out like 'yeeubuh', thank-you is 'agoo', horse is just 'hhh'. For most things he just points and squawks. He's not making any progress with pronunciation, as some of these words he has been saying in the same way now for months.
I'm happy that he's understanding things, have no concerns about his general development, he is happy and warm. My older DD was talking much more clearly at the same age, but she's 4 years older so I no longer remember in detail exactly what she was doing at the same age, though I've noticed one of his little pals who's just 2 months older is a real chatterbox.
I'm thinking about trying to get his hearing checked. He had really waxy gungy ears as a small baby but I haven't noticed them being like that more recently.
Am I being overanxious, or expecting too much from him?
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Is this normal speech for a 20 month old?
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BoosMaw · 06/10/2011 13:31
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