2.5 yrs speech

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Hi all, after a very slow start dd finally started talking and now has a big range of words that literally appeared over the space of a week. However one thing she does is she says " like it " or " want it" instead of saying "I don't like/want it. She doesn't appear to have the word 'don't' yet so it makes it difficult to understand what she wants of people font know her well.
She also doesn't have the words he, she, or I as yet. She doesn't use her own name in play/ conversation and cant tell you her name when asked.

She did have salt assessment age 2 who said she was delayed but her receptive language was so good they discharged her but said to ring them when she was 2.5 if any concerns. So I guess what I need to know is can your 2.5 yr old do these things or do I need to ring them back again?
Guess I will get mixed reviews on this as to whether to give her more time or not but need to know whether its worth ringing them so wwyd munsnetters and how are your 2.5 yr olds doing??

Sorry excuse typos damn phone!

I don't have a 2.5 yr old so can't compare but from my understanding a 2 yr old would generally put 2 words together so by that count your dd is doing fine! What is the wait like for SALT in your area? If it might be a while, no harm in asking for further assessment but otherwise, I do think she just needs more time and practice as her progress is definitely going in the right direction

I remember reading somewhere that personal pronouns are really difficult for them to wrap their head around. So they either do it wrong, or leave them out altogether initially. As your DD has only recently started talking more confidently, I wouldn't worry about the leaving out of personal pronouns for now. It'll start making sense to her soon enough. Just keep talking to her in whole sentences and she'll pick it up when she's ready. As suggested by poster above, depending on waiting times, maybe it's worth making a pre-emptive appointment with SALT so you can talk through any concerns.

Thanks guys she's got her 2.5 yr hv check up on tues so I will have chat with them about it as well

My DS struggled a lot with personal pronouns, and only finally sorted them out when he was almost 3. It made life difficult for him as his speech was generally good, so people other than us would assume that he meant what he said - e.g. he'd be yelling "You do it! You do it!" meaning "'let me do it', but understandably most adults took what he said literally, and he became more and more frustrated.

We played games with him to try to teach him the correct pronouns, which did seem to help. The best one was that we'd take a shoe from everyone in the family, and hold it up, ask whose shoe it was, and the person whose shoe it was would have to say "it's mine!" while everyone else shouted "it's yours!". We also used (latterly, when he was approaching 3) to model correct pronoun usage, e.g. he's say "You do it!" and I'd say "Do you mean that DS wants to do it? Oh, then you mean "I want to do it!".

It might be worth trying a few games like this at home. But in answer to your original query, although his speech and vocab were good, my DS could not do pronouns at all until about 2.11, so I personally wouldn't worry yet.

That's fab thanks very much nearly
:)

my DD is 2.5, diagnosed with an expressive speech delay at 2. she has had SALT input. She cannot use I , you - she says me do it, or uses people's names when you say whose it? she has just toda ystrated putting the s on eg daddy's car, used to be daddy car. she cant say her name yet, even though it isnt complicated. she also cant say dont etc, although she can say not. she says either no go, or says it'r raining while shaking her head, meaning its not raining!

LOVE the shoe game! :)

Thanks for replying olivo my dd sounds very much like yours she says "me do it" and doesn't use I at all and she uses peoples names. Dd can say not and no but can't say don't. Will give salt ring next week thanks a lot.

DS is 2.6 and doesn't really use pronouns. He says 'my' instead of 'I' as in 'my do it' but also uses 'my' and 'mine' correctly. Every once in a while he'll say something like 'yours', but mostly it's 'mummy's' or 'daddy's'.

It was only a few weeks ago he finally responded when asked his name, but he only knows first name and not surname, and he's not reliable about saying his first name at all.