15 month old babbling but no words

[sweetiepie1979]

Is this normal?

Yes, it's normal.
Recognisable words may not start until 18months, or more.
Proper speech is usually from about 2 years.

My 15mo is the same, her 13 mo friend says all sorts, DD says dad and thats it.

My 2.1yr old mostly babbles still. I took him for salt assessment a cou

...ple of weeks ago, they weren't too concerned as he displays all other signs of communication. At 15 months. You should be happy of he babbles, gestures, points etc.

My 15 month old says dada and tries to copy us when we encourage him, he also makes a few babbling noises but not much else. He just laughs when we try to get him to say mama.

I was also thinking of starting a thread like this so thank you, it's very reassuring to read these responses.

Yes the responses have been great here thank you everyone x

Thanks for writing this post (and to people who responded). I've been wondering exactly that. Hard not to feel anxious when you come across same age babies with big vocabularies! Xx

@sweetiepie1979 I’m going through this with my 15 month old atm - when did your little one’s speech take off?? X

Hi @poppet131 i can’t remember now but things did continue and when she started nursery I realised her speech was a little behind then that she did not have memory for weirds of songs etc. she was also a late crawler I did a lot of research myself and pushed for dyslexia diagnosis really early in primary probably too early I also pushed nhs for speech therapy very early on nursery/school but they wouldn’t agree as she was so you g do I went to a private speech therapist with her who specifically worked on sounds and memory she picked up that there was a slight issue and we kept working on sounds and flash cards push the flash cards for phonics is my advice but obviously make it a game. Eventually by P4 they agreed to do testing and of course she was dyslexic I knew for years but eventually people caught up with me and then I really had to push the primary to differentiate for her etc. anyway the point is it could just be that your little one will start speaking and be grand or it could be she needs intervention now so my advice is flash cards and memory games and gentle encouragement with pronunciation dyslexia is a long road especially at primary! My little girl is now 12 reading much happier but would not do it a loud in a classroom speaking well processing definitely an issue and spelling is beyond readable she is haunted by primary school memories P1 -P5 we moved her eventually that took confidence good luck xx

My 14 month old says mama dadada but she doesn't yet connect the words with us. She has sounds like ning, neg, a-ga etc. My pals children mostly didn't have proper words until 16 months or so.