Before posting this thread I have spent a good couple of hours reading up others of similar context, and now feel even more confused.
I came across a HV 2yr check up list and my DD seems to tick off pretty much everything apart from speech development.
Her speech is very limited, said mama at 7months and I was very impressed but had a very slow progress ever since.
Must highlight that English is not her mother tongue.
She is now 24 months in couple of days and her vocabulary consists of:
Mama
Tata (meaning dad) / daddy
Baba (meaning grandma)
Deda (grandad)
Come on
Go
Yes
No
Cao (for hi/bye)
Recognises a number of colours but will only say geeen for green, buu for blue, pip for pink, yes for red and bleugh for black.
As for letters, can recognise them all and knows which one is to follow, however refuses to say L, V, W, Y and Z.
Same for numbers, knows all from 1 to 10, but doesn't actually know how to count. Recently she heard another mum in the park say one, two, three, go! and now she tries to say it also but for 1 she would show one by hand and say mm, two, eee, go!
When I ask her to repeat a word after me she may try (most of the time she doesn't) but mainly says no. If I break down the word for her she will repeat it correctly but would still refuse to say a complete word.
She isn't either putting sentences together, she does say cao mama/tata/baba; or come on mama. I think that would be the only two "sentences" I've heard her use.
At home, we only speak to her in our mother tongue and this is what she is used to, but recently she has started to say more words in english rather than my language (daddy being an example picked up from watching Peppa Pig). So I am worried that with two languages she is feeling a bit confused.
She does however, seem to understand everything I tell her or ask her to do, as she would follow my instructions if lets say I asked her to bring her shoes. She also replies to me with a yes or no. If presented with a choice she would rather point at preffered than actually say. If she wants my attention she will say mama 50 times if necessary. She is very content playing on her own around the house whilst I am cleaning/cooking; she may come and bring me a toy just to show me what she is playing with.
She does babble constantly around the house in her own language but even I don't understand most of it. When she comes from outside, from lets say, walking the dog, she is very keen to tell the person at home how it went, using lots of gestures and sounds (even copying doggy lifting his leg and squatting :)) but once again it is just sounds, not actual words.
The only other thing that worries me is that she is very shy around other kids and strangers. When you leave her be she does settle in after a short while, but if someone is persistent into getting her to say hi or look at them she just withdraws further. Only very few people she warms to and is happy to see again. However, I must highlight that I was the same as a child until starting primary school, and also, we don't actually socialise a lot apart from few families every now and then and if we see someone in the park with a child of similar age group.
She is yet to start nursery, I am looking into putting her on two half days just so she develops that social side.
Oh I feel like I am just rambling on now, but just need some reassurance that all is normal while waiting for a 2yr check up (still waiting for an appnt, no letter received as my GP informed me they have a huge backlog and are usually done when child is closer to age of 3!?).
Thanks in advance!