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Should I be worried about DS' speech development?

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hamster · 03/03/2006 15:07

I'm sorry to bore those out there who have read threads like this 100's of times, but I am a little concerned.

My DS is 18 months old, and the only word he says is..."Tigger"....ALL THE TIME.
Occasionally he utters "bye-bye", but other than that it's unintelligible blabbering.

He's really active, and has no problems with physical development. He also knows body parts to point at, and various objects around the house to point at.
I'm just worried he's behind with his talking...

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hunkermunker · 03/03/2006 15:09

No, don't worry. Sounds like he has been concentrating on physical development and he obviously understands you.

DS1 didn't talk much until he was 19mo. Now he doesn't stop - literally new words every hour (he's 23mo today).

scampadoodle · 03/03/2006 15:11

This won't help you, but my 21m DS has no words at all. He understands everything you say & communicates amazingly well with gestures (which is maybe why he can't be bothered to talk). He's very noisy though, & can do animal impressions... Doesn't even say "mama" though.

schneebly · 03/03/2006 15:13

if he is babbling that is good - my DS used only made up words and gibberish apart from mummy and daddy until he was 2 and now at 2.5 has a wonderful vocabulary and is putting words together like 'oh no car broken mummy' (our car is broken BTW!)

scampadoodle · 03/03/2006 15:16

Well, there is the old "Einstein couldn't talk til he was 5" trope. Also, an extremely cultured & intellectual friend of ours didn't talk til he was 4. The fact that he is a screaming queen I'm hoping is entirely coincidental...

dinosaur · 03/03/2006 15:18

I think that if he's pointing and otherwise communicating then there's no need to worry.

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hamster · 03/03/2006 15:20

Magazines and books don't help(esp the NHS "growing up" book they give to you)
According to these, by around 12-18 months a child should be saying between 6-20 words.

Things like this annoy me, as no child is text book, so to speak. But they always put that niggle in the back of your mind

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ernest · 04/03/2006 12:33

they usually have a language explosion around age 2. My ds didn't speak much till then, i was pinning my hopes on this explosion . nothing , nothing, then woosh - every day a bout a dozen new words. Truly astounding. Just keep talking to him clearly, describe things, it will happen. 18 months is still really young

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