When did your late talker start to talk?

[CarolineKate]

My son is 22 months old. He has always been behind in talking. He is slowly progressing which reassures me.

He says about 20 words and few extra words where he and I know what he is saying but it is not perfect.

He won't put words together unless he is saying bye bye to something for example "ba bye parr" which is bye bye park.

I didn't talk until I was 3. I'm wondering when your late talkers actually started to talk more?

Good to see this thread as was also worrying. Dd is the same age and has spoken 5 words (or sounds that could be words)at various times but never regularly. She makes herself understood tho with gestures and grunting sounds.
But she does seem to understand what I'm saying (I'd like to think)

4.5 He had hearing issues which took from the age of 18 months to sort. He has loads of speech therapy once he could hear at 4 yrs. His speech sounds are a little behind his peers at 8 but thanks to the speech and language he is a brilliant reader with a fantastic vocabulary. I do remember those early days feeling so worried for him. Hope all goes well for your LO OP.

Started speaking at 22 months, but with complex words such as chimpanzee rather than mummy, daddy. Started reading when he was 3, reading the Hobbit in reception. 22 months is far too young to tell whether there is a problem, just keep talking with him, we were told (some years ago now) to offer choices - do you want the orange or the apple? Also to check the receptive speech is ok. Although he didn't speak he could pick up the red car rather than the blue car, or I could call from the other room and ask him to bring his plate through so clearly understood. If only he still was able to bring his plate through when asked to!

Both of them not a word until 2 and a half. Can’t shut them up anymore ☺️

Ds1 stopped talking at 18 months which coincided with me having dd.
Day after his 2nd birthday his speech took off.
He had to have a little speech therapy but he soon caught up.
Its stressful but they will do it in their own time.

My youngest was a bit like yours at that age - single words only and I was thinking in the back of my mind "2 words together by 2" (having formally studied some child development). He did start putting 2 words together roughly as he turned 2, but still didn't speak a lot.

He would have been just past 3 when he started stuttering a lot. After I'd ignored it for a while I had a chat to his nursery. The brilliant nursery manager told me he'd noticed that it started soon after the oldest children left for school - and my son was suddenly "one of the big kids" in the preschool room. At that point he'd started trying to talk a lot more and the stuttering seemed to be a function of more ideas than his tongue could keep up with.

We had 3 or 4 episodes of stuttering over the years, he's now a very bright, very geeky teenager who is still prone to be monosyllabic if he doesn't think he has anything to say.

My lb had just been saying some words, but not as much as other kids his age, we were starting to get a bit worried. He's 2 years and 4 months and in the past month, he has started saying more, putting words together, etc. HV and nursery weren't too worried, as he understood everything being said to him or asked of him. He now seems to say a new words wvry few days.

My DD was 2 and a half and like others went from about 5 words to full sentences. Friends who saw her from month to month were

Not mentioning this to brag but she has a degree from Cambridge. She was just taking it all in.

I was a late talker too apparently. Nowhere near as smart though

DS1 had about 20 words at 22 months, but about 100 by his 2nd birthday. He could read about 100 words at 2 and a half.
DS3 didn't really speak at all until almost 3, but did a lot of grunting and pointing, and clearly understood what was going on around him. I did take him to get checked over by HV, who tested him to see if he could follow multistep instructions ( put the mummy doll on the red chair then put the baby doll in the bed.).
DS2 was talking full sentences at 12 months, but couldn't read before he went to school. By 5 they were all reading, talking and doing pretty well at school.
Makes you realize they are all different and not as malleable as I had anticipated they would be!

My first was around 3 when he started talking more than a few words and stuff that made sense. He was very clever just couldn't articulate it. He is being assessed for autism now which may explain it, but I think some children just are late talkers. I swear my second son was born talking but didn't walk until 15/16 months, whereas my first walked at just over a year and he was 10 weeks premature!
My nephew is 4 next week and I've barely heard him talk, he has had speech and language therapy which helped.

One of our boys didn't say a single word until he was three. I was losing my mind with worry and then one day, no word of a lie, he uttered a full sentence!! We roar laughing now because he's a lovely lad but has always been a very serious little chap, a real thinker and the sentence was 'I don't like this pie.' We just think that he hadn't spoken until then because he had nothing to complain about up until that point 😂😂 He didn't shut up after that though...

My ds2 was 3-3.5 before he started saying anything
We'd been to SALT but no improvement
Then it just cans like a wave and there was no stopping him

He's now almost 10 and nearly all his parents evenings are full of 'too chatty' and 'wants to go round chatting yo everyone'