Is this an unusual way for speech to develop?

[Jenkeylovesdazzy]

DD is 17 months, born at 35 weeks and has cerebral palsy but is only affected physically at this point. She said first words quite early and has referred to us as 'mummy' and 'dad' (rather than mama, dada) since about 9 months. In the last few weeks she has suddenly started talking in sentences such as:
'me go down there' 'me need that' 'me no go there' 'me see that' 'me did that' - what's that? and today 'who's that?'.

I think because she's not able to walk or crawl yet she has developed this language where she has become very good at telling us what she wants if she can't get it herself!

But.. says very few actual nouns, limited really to 'mi-mi'(milk), mummy, daddy, emma, nanny, duck.

This is the total reverse of my other dd who had loads and loads of vocab but took ages to talk in sentences. what do you think?

She sounds lovely. My neice who is slightly older than your dd has similar speech. She doesn't have any medical problems.

i think due to the lack of everything else your dd is learning speech quicker it is very good

my son is 28mths and has very limited speech and i'm waiting for salt for him so i wouldn't be worried that your dd is advanced my son is very physical and is very advanced that way so they will always excel in something and that is great that your dd is able to do that

i'm actually quite jealous that you have such great communication my son is so independant he wants to do all himself hv says this is why he has never felt the need to ask me things although he is trying much more now and have just got his salt appt through

your dd sounds so adorable

sounds fine - very fine, especially for a prem 17-monther. Those are the beginnings of grammatical structure, no, actually more than the beginnings. ds wasn't doing that at 17 months.

ds3 did that for a while (aged about 17 months), went from nothing to phrases then switched to doing it in a more 'normal' way, nouns and up[ iyswim

She sounds delightful! I love that 'me go down there' stage, so cute!

My DD's we/are advanced talkers for their age and their speech development followed the same patteren your daughter's seems to be taking. i.e. speaking in sentences before they had enough nouns. Don't worry, if she's anthing like my two, there will be nouns enough in the weeks and months to come. Oh yes! She'll probably never shut up!

If it's any consoltaion my children are often mistaken for being a year or two older than they are because they speak so well and have such large vocabularies.

It's all good! She's just demonstrating her uniqueness!

I'm dredging this up from a dim and distant course, so may be barking up the wrong tree , but I think both the 'point and name' and the 'less vocab, more grammar' routes are both pretty standard, although the bigger vocab and less grammar route is more common. Dd was like this, only much, much later. She didn't start talking until 2.6, but like your dd went straight into putting her few words into sentences.

Thanks everyone, I used to be a languages teacher so it always interests me how children develop language so differently. My dd who is 3 is very physical, no problem swinging from bars like a monkey but her speech is not so developed. But both very cute little girls - (except today when they both decided not to have a nap !)

2 tommorrow and only talks jargon,no recognisable words, youngest of 5 but am getting worried now.

shiny1 my ds 2 is 2.4 and has the same problem when he was 2 i took him to gp who referred him for speech therapy and within last 4 weeks is now attempting to say more things my friend got him a thomas laptop which helps with sound letters and pronounciations and its been a godsend its since he got this his speech is coming along still along way off as yet but still its progress take him to gp and ask referral to speach therapy best done now as i still ahve along wait till the actual therapy but they do give you good advice as what to do from home

also if you have a snap group its designed for speial needs but its also to do with delayed speech behaviourial and other things my son has just been referred for the delayed speech sessions so hopeing that will be good for him too

Jenkey sounds fascinating!

That is very early to speak in sentences and I think you are right that she is needing to communicate if she can't do it herself. I haven't heard of speaking in sentences first - how interesting.

My dd has just started communicating but as far as I am aware 'conventionally' - nouns, then some verbs and now just starting to put two together. It's brilliant when you can have a conversation with them, isn't it and hopefully she won't be so frustrated (although it's hard when they know what they're saying and you don't).

You must be so proud of your clever girl ]]

Thanks for advice bubblagirl,will do that.