Speech at 2

[boo64]

When dcs have their 2 year old check, what are HVs expecting to hear speech wise?

What are 2 year olds expected to be saying in terms of no of words?

I have read the 'norm' (and yes I know they all develop at different rates etc) is 50 words at 2 but should that say 50 clear wordsor just 50 words you can understand given the context?

Ds is 2 next week and his vocabulary is coming on nicely now - maybe 100 'words' - I have lost count but the vast majority are very unclear - maybe only 15 are actually clear and said correctly. So is it 50 clear words or just 50 garbled words!!?

are you sure he will get a 2 year check? cos they are stopping them my ds was 2 in April and never got a check and he couldnt say any words!

they only gonna be doing new baby screenings and pre school screenings

Seems to vary by area with the two year checks - in mine they tend to do them a bit late - must be a backlog - maybe they should rename them 2.4 year checks round here.

i know my dd got her 3 year screening at 3years 9 months

We're in Bedfordshire and there is an 8 month check, but that seems to be about it. (DS is 3.7 and didn't have 2 year or 3 year check. Don't know if he will have any other ones).

5 miles away in Hertfordshire there are checks at about 2 and 3 (DS has friends there, where we used to live and so I know vaguely about the checks).