Should I be worried about my DD who’s 15 months (a development one)

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Hi,

So my DD who is 15 months old doesn’t really pass me toys. I’d say she’s probably passed me toys around 3 times.

She has come leaps and bounds in her speech and says hi, dada, bye, pink, tries to say purple and has said some other words too that sound like two and three.

She’s only said mama once. She usually says ba or da instead of mama. Is is worrying that at 15 months she still doesn’t really say mama?

Lately, she doesn’t really make the two and three sounds as much and doesn’t say ba as much either, more so says pink and tries to say purple. It’s almost like she’s forgetting the older words the more she says newer ones.

She doesn’t point an awful lot and doesn’t bring me a toy if I ask her to, she sometimes ignores me when I call her name but sometimes responds, I’ve put that down to if she’s busy she won’t respond but if she’s not preoccupied then she’ll respond.

She does clap, wave, smile, is walking whilst holding things, feeds herself (BLW) but it’s the bringing toys to me if I ask her to or passing me a toy she’s holding that I’m worried about.

Should I be worried that she doesn’t follow directions, say mama (despite saying other words) or point much?

She does constantly have things in her mouth, I know children do this out of curiosity but she ALWAYS more often than not has something in her mouth.

thanks

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My son doesn’t say mummy and he’s 3.5…but he is autistic. He did say mama constantly to me when he was a baby actually, so, development is not linear and I know that for sure. He does say daddy now, so he must not feel the need to say my name, probably because I’m always there. not all children will say mummy daddy whether they are delayed or ND or NT or whatever.

He didn’t point until he was 2.5 and that was just to label things, it had no other function other than that, and still doesn’t. Pointing at around 12 months is usually what could be called a sign that your child is not ND, generally speaking.

Your daughter’s speech seems rather non-functional though, and I would mention that to a HV if it doesn’t develop to more functional language. My son’s first words were letters, numbers, colours and shapes, which are completely non-functional language, although pretty cool. Functional language looks like ‘more’, ‘want some’, ‘no’, ‘food’, ‘need potty’ etc.

@YourAmberScrollerill speak to the health visitor although she saw her around two weeks ago and wasn’t concerned.

She does say eat, the 1, 2, 3 and purple etc only really started this week and if I’m honest I think she’s picked that up from watching Miss Rachel (she does watch Miss Rachel when I need to have a shower etc).

She does reach out or point with her whole hand if that makes sense? Just not the typical one finger pointing

Does she follow your instructions if you ask her to do something like get her shoes? Does she play games with you and do actions to songs? They’re usually things that would be expected by this age, speech can take a while to come sometimes and it’s not looked at until the 2 year check, but general interaction and responding at this age should be there.

@Overthebowno she wouldn’t get her shoes.

She will play games such as peak-a-boo and if I sing if you’re happy and you know it she’ll clap her hands.

She does smile a lot at us, or if she’s playing independently she’ll look over at me and smile then keep playing or whilst playing she’ll come back to me and hug me or put her head on my knee for example

She’s 15 months! She’s doing brilliantly - you really don’t need to worry. Speech doesn’t need to be functional at this age.

@Nix32thank you. Someone else on here has said that her speech isn’t functional and that’s a worry so now I’m a bit confused :(