DS is 20 months old. His language is coming on but it is emerging so differently from my how my eldest developed at this age.
At this age my eldest developed individual words and gradually built conversational complexity (for instance he might have learnt ‘cat’ and ‘mine’ then combined the two when talking about his cuddly toy cat). The words were the building blocks to short sentences that became more complicated over time once he had nailed the vocab.
20mo old DS on the other hand jabbers away sixteen to the dozen and seems like he’s trying to express more complex thoughts than ‘cat mine’ - but he is mostly unintelligible. He reminds me of the Swedish Chef in the Muppets - constant monologue and occasionally there’s a word you half-recognise amongst the gobbledygook.
He probably has about 40-50 distinguishable words, most of which I gradually start to understand in context (“noma” for snowman for instance) as they become a bit clearer. But lots of what he says that seems to have meaning to him baffles me.
Generally he’s bright, understands a great deal of what I say etc.
Is this just a different type of ‘normal’ language development to what I saw with my eldest?
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Is this normal language development?
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Bubbinsmakesthree · 28/12/2018 20:41
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