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When did yours started to talk?

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mammatutto · 09/07/2004 22:37

DS is nearly 13 months old, and has been saying a few words for a couple of weeks now.

He can say Hallo, Thank you, Look, Milk and bye bye apart from mama and dada which he has been saying for a few months.
Is he a early talker or is this normal?

Just to add something else, when I say he says those words I mean he knows the meaning as he uses them appropriately. He will repeat other words he hears from me too, parrot style, but I don't count them as words he says!

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jampot · 09/07/2004 22:51

mammatutto there is no such thing as "normal" - my dd was speaking coherently at 12 months and could hold a good conversation at 18 months. My son could barely string a sentence together when he started nursery! Apparently a chatty mummy helps!!

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mammatutto · 09/07/2004 22:58

thanks jampot

How old was your son when he started nursery?
do you think nursery helped in that respect?

So the talking should be linked more to personal inclination than outside stimulation as your 2 children had the same chatty mum if you don't mind me saying that, but were quite different developing speech.

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strangerthanfiction · 09/07/2004 23:17

mammatutto, dd started saying the odd word by around 12 months but it wasn't until around 14-15 months that her talking really took off. I've met children who talk more than her and children who talk less. Those who talk less tend to do other things better than she does like climbing, jumping, running etc. I don't think there is a 'norm', the range of possibilities is enormous! I once met a 13 month old who talked in short sentences and stunned everyone in the room and I know a 2 year old who says less than your ds is doing now.

tammybear · 09/07/2004 23:19

my dd is 18 months, and only says a few words like mama, mum, dada, tigger, tickle, wiggle, ducky, doggy, and said bye bye once. but shes a chatterbox in her own language of "grbh grbh huh" and "golie golie go"

coppertop · 09/07/2004 23:21

Ds1 started talking at about 3yrs. Ds2 is 17mths and still only babbles.

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mammatutto · 09/07/2004 23:55

I know with babies there is no "normal" or "not normal", but since DS is my first one, I am always surprised when he does or says things which I don't expect him to do!

Guess this is normal too?

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mammatutto · 09/07/2004 23:56

coppertop, do you mean he started stringing sentences together at 3?

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Hulababy · 09/07/2004 23:57

DD was saying the odd proper word from 8 months onwards. At a year she was using several words although not all were clear to outsiders, and she was at this time starting to put two words together - want milk, ball drop, etc. She is now 2y2m and never stops talking. She holds full conversations and has been able to since about 18 months. Her vocab is well in the hundreds. I am often told by outsiders how suprised they are by her language and they are suprised when I tell them her age. I think talking must be her thing. But, boy, do my ears know about it after a full day of it!!! LOL

Jimjams · 10/07/2004 00:04

ds2 said the odd word for 8 months ish- added to his vocabulary until about 12 months, then slowly reduced it until by 15 months he wasn't saying anything, but could sing (no words) perfectly in tune. Still can't talk now age 5.

Ds2 didn't say much except gobbledegook until 2- now (2 and a half) chats away in sentences - doesn't shut up actually- still very unclear.

For baby number 3 we are hoping for a neat girl who sits chatting away in sentences from 12 months and doesn't need speech therapy. Now that would be a novelty.

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mammatutto · 10/07/2004 00:05

wow Hulababy, now that is early!
Can't wait to hear little one starting a proper conversation...

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mammatutto · 10/07/2004 00:08

jimjams, when you say your dd is 5 and doesn't talk, do you mean doesn't talk clearly, or doesn't talk a lot, or you mean exactly that?

If the latter is the case, do you know the reason why?

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Chandra · 10/07/2004 00:09

Apart from Mama, Dada and the names of our dogs, DS said Hola at 11 m, now he has a mixture of three languages so it's difficult to decide whether he is just babling or trying to say a word in another language. So far he says: other, higher, lower, bad, dog, good boy, good girl, mas (more), flors (flowers), caca (po), and signs bottle, food, and gloves. He is 16m old.

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mammatutto · 10/07/2004 00:11

That's interisting Chandra, as ds is also bilingual as I am Italian.
He says 3 words in English and 3 in Italian!

I have also heard that bilingual babies talk later?

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hmb · 10/07/2004 00:14

Its a 'how long is a bit of string question' this one. Dd was 11 months and hasn't shut up yet (now age 7). At 18 months you could have a reasonable conversation with her. Ds was slower to start at 13 months and has had some problems with speech developemnt but is doing much better now. His speech is still a little behind, but he is understood by people who don't know him IYSWIM. Ds would use very expressive gobledegook, with the most wonderful intonation! Dd just talked.

hmb · 10/07/2004 00:15

Hulababy! Snap! Dd was normaly taken for a child a year older than she was....must come of having a chatty Mummy!! {smile]

Jimjams · 10/07/2004 00:17

Nope I mean exactly that- he's autistic - he has a few set phrases which are understandable to people who see him a lot, and a few single words- again very unclear, but he's pretty non-verbal. He uses pictures to communicate things like 'I want computer' 'I want buttons' 'I want trampoline'. Next we'll move onto 'I see....'

(coppertop's ds1 is also autistic so I expect she means that he started using single words at 3).

hmb · 10/07/2004 00:18

How is the computer going Jimjams?

Chandra · 10/07/2004 00:24

YEs they do, I read in a book that it is better to concentrate in one language for 6m and then get the second for other 6m and so on to help them to get the language faster, but we decided to speak in our native languages as it was more natural to us and definitively more spontaneous. We are speaking Spanish and Catalan at home and he gets English from the nursery. (Obviously has decided English is more universal and has got more words in English that in the other two )

Chandra · 10/07/2004 00:25

sorry, that was the answer to Mammatutto's last question

Hulababy · 10/07/2004 00:25

hmb - I couldn't possibly comment on where she gets it from

Mind you, my parents are forever telling me that DD is the image of me at her age - in looks and personality. Oops!

At nursery they have ended up putting DD into the next class 6 months early as she was getting frustrated in the toddler class as she had no one to talk to up there. Although, I personally think the nursery nurses just fancied a break from listening to her. LOL!!! If she can't find a willing partner to talk with she even bosses her dollies about.

Jimjams · 10/07/2004 00:28

obsesive hmb, but not independent grr. DO you know anything about intellikeys? This is my next cunning (but expensiv) possible plan......

hmb · 10/07/2004 00:30

Never used them. Isn't there a charity run my retired engineers that sorts out this sort of thing. They set up systems to help disabled people access technology???? I'll google.

hmb · 10/07/2004 00:33

Hulababy, dd looks just like her dad, but behaviour wise she is me in minature. Gawd help us when she hits puberty!

Language is very much dds thing. Like your dd she had a large vocab at an early age and knew and would point out the letters of the alphabet at 18 months. She taught herslf to read at 3.5 and now has a reading age far ahead of her actual age. Quite 'normal' at maths tho, counts on her fingers and her hand writing drives her teachers to distraction. God she is so like me. Even has my god awful temper.

hmb · 10/07/2004 00:36

REMAP, jimjams, biut looking at the website I'm not sure that they 'do' computers.

Website is

www.remap.org.uk/

Galaxy · 10/07/2004 00:39

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