Is this speech delay in a 24 months ?

@Firstimemum24

All mums are a first time mum when they have their first.
Not all mums obsess over non existent problems

Listen to what everyone is saying, and consider getting help for your anxiety. It will damage your child.

Have you posted about this before?

How many people need to tell you this is fine?

I suspect you have hyper focused on language development because it allows you to emote and obsess and is fed by well meaning reassurances. If you really want to help your child then it would be good to ask for support to understand your own behaviour. Collection all the threads you have started on this or other worries, make a note of all the conversations you have had with friends and healthcare professionals and take them with you to a Dr and ask them to help you understand what is happening. They may be able to put your mind at rest or possibly see that there might be more behind the behaviour.

This really annoys me. Parents saying their child has a speech delay and then lists all the things they can actually say where my son who is three in a couple of days only says a couple of words and sometimes doesn't say a word all day. Just noises. Your child sounds fine, OP.

Sorry rant over. 😬

Again all normal. Please either stop worrying or if you can't try to get some help for your anxiety OP

That's why nursery rhymes etc are so useful.

'So a normal language development includes a bit of both learned phrases and spontaneous ones ?'

Of course!!

No speech delay. My DD had a speech delay and you're nowhere near it. My DDs resolved itself eventually and she's now at university and very chatty.

Try not to worry. I get the anxiety though. Two to three words at age two is tremendous and the real indicator all is fine.

Sounds entirely normal

Actually, ahead of my DS at 2

He's now 5, and bright as a button, and doing great at school

Enjoy your child. I know that's easier said than done, but your thought process and anxiety seem to be taking away from your parenting experience.

Just enjoy your child OP, most people wouldn't even know what GLP is and scrutinising everything your child says isn't helpful to anyone. She's only 2 years old, read to her, sing nursery rhymes with her and narrate your day with her. Stop worrying about the teeny tiny details. It's normal for a two year old to use echolalia.
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OP you're just describing normal child development.

The only thing you really SHOULD be worrying about and trying to resolve is your own anxiety.

Why do you “have to be aware of” a child pretending to have long conversations on a phone? (Weirdly the “pretend play” that nd tend not to engage in, but there you go.)

What are you thinking actually happens if your child does experience developmental delay?

Honestly OP, this is the next in a long list of multiple posts and threads you've posted where again you're determined there is something developmentally wrong with your child when all you've done is list behaviours and skills that are normal in a child of her age.

Its been explained before that young children can't understand open ended questions. It's normal to be anxious about children but the level of anxiety and obsession you have of being determined something is "wrong" with your child is unhealthy and I think will start to impact your relationship with your child. Instead of just enjoying a normal developing child, you're nit picking and micro focusing on problems that aren't there.

When are you going to stop this? Have you got help and support for your anxiety because I feel you'll never let this go and your poor child will just be subjected to every single little behaviour being scrutinised. Multiple professionals now and posters have told you from what you write your child is developing normally, why are you so obsessed with their having to be something wrong?

Hi OP, I work in a child development service and what you are describing seems to me to be exactly what we would expect a 24 month old to do. Has somebody qualified told you that they should be able to respond coherently to choices at this point? We allow an huge range of timeframes for these things to develop, a few small things in isolation are never a worry and completely normal. Even if they did have the language ability, most 2 yo would want both choices and just grab at both anyway and choices would change.

It’s normal to copy sentences that are heard often when learning by to speak. What you’ve described doesn’t match our description of echolalia where I am based but maybe you didn’t use all the examples… for echolalia we would be looking for quite long sentences of scripted speech with the exact same intonation, usually extracts from books or television shows, and generally we would be thinking it looks like echolalia when it surpasses the ability of the child’s language development and doesn’t match up to what they are able to do outside of the echolalia.

if it’s been reviewed and not accepted, that is because there are no problems that need exploring right now

Oh yes and there are certainly things only we know what she is saying 🙂

Ok I don't think this ongoing debate is useful to OP. Your little girl sounds absolutely lovely, try not to worry I am sure you are doing all the right things ( reading, singing playgroups) enjoy her they grow up so fast.

I would have to disagree.

I think my autistic and slightly speech delayed child would have done none of those things. He referred to himself as I for quite a long time too ("help I").

I think we are agreeing most children repeat words and some phrases as part of normal development. I would not describe that as echolalia ( which I understand as repetition without meaning- like a verbal stim), but I can see some definitions do. Reciting great chunks of language rather than single sentences is not typical, neither is multiple repetitions of a single word.

I’m not sure what you think I’ll learn from googling the term you suggested. As I said in my previous post these are common stages in the acquisition of language and not Red flags for anything (unless they persist rather than are transitory). The equivalence to crawling is good. In normal development most children crawl then cruise then walk. For some time they crawl if in a hurry or uncertain but they leave it behind as being upright proves its advantage (being able to see further, carry with both hands etc etc) but most children outgrow it and if it persists there may be a difference worth investigating. Some of course don’t crawl and instead bum shuffle then progress and fewer still never crawl or walk.
@Firstimemum24 s child as described in her first post seems unremarkable (in a nothing to worry about way).