DS will be two on Tuesday. He has a very chatty older sister (3.11). I cannot decide whether this is just a boy who is happy to let everyone else talk for him, and who communicates his needs and wants pretty effectively without speech, or whether there is something that needs rather more investigation.
He has no problems with pointing and talking, it's just that not much of it is actual words. He doesn't seem to be hugely aware that his words are not the same as our words.
The words that he uses consistently and clearly are :
Bye bye
Ha-ow (hello)
No -which he sometimes says as "on" (and shakes head)
Hole (rather randomly - he sees them everywhere)
Eye
More
Rain (Train)
Bah (Bus)
Air-rane (Plane) (spot the one track mind...)
We sometimes, but not always get…
Daddy
Mummy
Dadell (Isabel)
The rest of his talk - and he talks all the time - involves a lot of pointing and labelling, and general shouting.
This usually involves the right number of syllables and could (by his mother) be understood as being not far off the right thing “ow-er” (flower) “ai bo” (rainbow)
“Uh-uh-by” (butterfly)
He loves singing, and Twinkle Twinkle and The Wheels on the bus are totally understandable by their tunes, but are sung in the same way as above.
AS far as communication is concerned there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with his hearing (can hear a chocolate button being given to someone else at 500 m) and responds to known voices calling him in a crowd (eg at a toddler group) and he does seem to understand and make sense of a lot of language. He'll respond immediately to two stage instructions:
"Put your car down, tea is ready"
"Go and get your shoes from the kitchen and bring them to me"
"Go to the back door, we're going outside"
"It’s time to tidy up",
"Go and find Isabel"
"Where is your nose/tummy/eyes etc? Where is Mummy’s nose"
He enjoys listening to longer stories, e.g. the Very Hungry Caterpillar and Dear Zoo etc.
Am I being paranoid, or should we really be hearing more at 24 months?
Thanks, Annner
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Any SALTs around? I think that DS probably has a language delay. Or does he?? Arghhhhhh
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Annner · 24/10/2008 18:52
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