When did yours started to talk?

[mammatutto]

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!

Language development (when unimpeded by SN) is truly remarkable. I've no idea how dd works some things out and why she does them the way she does. Dd's just recently started referring to herself, but instead of saying her name / me / I etc. she says 'this one' and points at herself!

I've always thought dd's language was pretty good but I'm amazed to hear of children talking in 'sentences' well before 18 months old. When you say 'sentences' do you mean 3-4 words in a row, i.e. 'tired, go bed' or a full sentence like 'mummy I'm tired I want to go to bed'?

DD talked full sentences, though not getting tenses, etc right at 18 months. She started putting words together at around a year old. She is now 2 and does hold full, proper conversations and is using past, present and furture tenses - not always exact - i.e. I've doned it, instead of I have done it. But she is getting there.

ds1 first word was hoover (how very sad) at 11 months. He's now 2.3yrs and he understands everything and his speech is amazing. Today he said "I miss Daddy, Daddy gone to work on a train. Me see Daddy later"

By contrast my other little lad (ds2) is nowhere near saying anything and he's almost 1 . He's very cute, though.

The other thing that amazes me is how manipulative NT children are, how early they start to do this and how they use language right from the beginning to do this. DS2 climbed into bed with us at 6am so I told him he had to go to sleep, and after a while obviously bored he started saying "ow I sore" so he would get a kiss. It would never occur to my autisitic son to make up that he felt sore and he wouldn't know how to go about it anyway. With him what you see is what you get.

that is so true jimjams. i cannot beleive the things my son comes out with. his latest thing is pretending he is upset because he has seen a mouse, i am sure he must have seen it on the TV. But he makes me look for the mouse and when I say I cant find it he says it was a butterfly?!! what on earth, it seems weird though when your first cant talk doesnt it?