New Dad with question about my girls development

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Hi,

First time poster here. Go easy lol.

I’ve got a 20 month old girl and I think she’s very bright. But wanted to check against others parents in case it was normal.

She has vocabulary of a few hundred words. We’ve got her those flash cards (4 packs at 50 each) and she can recognise about 80% of them)

She’s saying up to 5 words in sentences. The latest being ‘I love you very much’

She can count to 12 and knows about 7 shapes and all her colours including orange and yellow and says them quite clearly.

She does over things like calls herself by her name, says when she’s doing things - the latest ‘I squished it’ when she flattened her sandwich lol.

Is this in the range of normal development based on everyone’s experience?

Many thanks in advance

She sounds like she's ahead with her speech which is great. You obviously talk to her a lot. Good job mama. She sounds lovely and bright!

My son is 18 months. He speaks I think average for his age not quite as advanced as your daughter but he also knows his shapes, animals, colours, and I can ask him where something is and he will point to it. I'd say she's doing great for her age.

She sounds like she's at the more advanced end of normal in the respects you've described.

My DD1 was speaking in sentences on her first birthday and my HV went on about her being gifted. She taught herself to read before 2.5. However she turned out to have Aspergers so was quite delayed in other areas, e.g. socially. She's still doing really well and studying a highly academic degree but also still finds social communication challenging.

My advice would be to concentrate on supporting her development in any areas where she doing less well. Try not to exaggerate the difference between her and her peers and enjoy your lovely articulate little girl.