My second DS has just turned 17 months and he's not talking really, at all. He's babbling, but was on the later side with that starting at 10 months. He may have one or two words that he barely says, but mainly his babble is pretty nonsensical, the standard da da ba ba baby babble.
He has also only just started pointing consistently with his index finger, although he's been whole hand pointing since about 12-13 months and every now and then he would use his finger, but only now is it consistent and the index finger is properly dominant. The Health Visitor at his 15 month check wasn't concerned with this and said his fine motor would improve - his fine motor isn't great to be honest, he still scoops a lot of his food or will use thumb, index and third fingers together instead of pincer grip, so that all matches up.
He waves if you say hi or bye, shakes his head when he doesn't want something, asks for up etc, and makes specific noises for specific things eg the same funny little noise whenever he sees a dog or cat, he'll maybe go "arrrghhhh" if he sees a lion or similar on the TV (not consistent).
Has anyone had similar, virtually no words at this age and late index finger pointing? I was lucky with DS1 as his speech came on really well and by 20 months he had well over 100 words (he wasn't waking until 18 months though, whereas DS2 is already running!).
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17 month old not talking
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tempnamechange98765 · 25/07/2020 10:19
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