IS CHILD LATE TO START TALKING?

[caroline18]

Just wanted to know if my dd is starting to talk late or if she has problems? Could anyone give me some advice please and maybe put my mind at rest. Thank you she is 18 months old

DS1 didn't start till exactly 18months and then only odd words, but by 2 he was on a par with everyone else
He's 15 years old this month and hasn't shut up since....

thanks i seem to have made a mess of posting dont know how to get the other one out.How many words do you think dd should be saying i know all kids are different

DS1 started all of a sudden with perhaps half a dozen words, none of which were recognisable to anyone but me - his first two words were the name of the dog and of my sisters cat!!!!! I got one of those babys first books and we went thru the pictures saying ball, tree, boat etc and he was saying all of them in just 2 or 3 weeks, once he had started with the dogs name!! After that, he just seemed to pick up loads of new words every day, I made sure to chatter to him a lot, repeating things, you know, "here is your dinner, isn't your dinner nice, your dinner tastes nice, you are eating all your dinner" etc over and over again. I was a single parent with just him, so I wondered if it was because he didn't hear a lot of conversation around him on a day to day basis? Which may explain why he said the dogs name first, he probably heard that word more than any other.
If you are worried, take him to your GP. I took him at 2.5 because he couldn't pronounce a lot of words his friends could, they checked his hearing - which was fine - but by the time all that was done, he was pronouncing more difficult words anyway, it was just me being paranoid.
HTH

Oh, I don't think you can delete the other thread unless you email mumsnet to do it? But don't worry, it will gradually slip off the active conversations

thanks lisa
she seems to have been a sick baby with one thing or another and feel all this is adding to the problems

thanks lisa
she seems to have been a sick baby with one thing or another and feel all this is adding to the problems

did it again with posting

The range for 'normal' is big... MIL tells me that DH barely said anything at all before 3yo. DS said one word by 18 months old, now a chatterbox. DD could say about nine words at 18 months, and is currently saying 4 word sentences (2.3yo).

ds didn't actually speak properly until he was nearly 3 ( he did speak but it wasn't easy to comprehend...now at 8 1/2 he's a non-stop chatterer. dd started saying 3 words as a sentence at about 15 months, they are all different, some girls talk early some are quiet and I'm sure your dd will soon be hard to shut up (ie. women are known to say at least twice the amount of things men say a day) enjoy the quietness it doesn't last

thank you all for advice nice to know not the only one

Didn't realise there were two threads for this - I've just posted on the other one.