Nursery and speech

[HP2020]

My 2.5 yo is starting nursery on Tuesday for 15 hours a week. Mornings every day. Currently he babbles loads and has about 5-10 words. Everyone says nursery will bring on his speech so was just interested to hear from ppl who have been in my position in the past, how long were they at nursery for before the words started flowing?

Your DS speech delay is "severe" as measured by the standard tools used to test speech development by SALT - a lot of babbling and a few words is what a 16M old baby does. I am not sure where you are getting autism from, nothing that you have written suggests autism, autism is not a speech disorder.

My son started saying words at 2.5 and by 3 was putting 2/3/4 word sentences together. He's 5.5 now and can talk quite well however it's not that straightforward. Speechwise he is fine, but his language and comprehension is still not age appropriate. He is developing at his own rate and if someone met him they wouldn't know he has a language delay but he does. I think be prepared for a slow journey, however anything is possible and he could catch up soon.

However he hasn't been diagnosed with anything yet apart from a language delay and doesn't tick the boxes for ASD either. I agree with some of the previous posters to not have too many high expectations from nursery, they might suggest ways to help and support him but a lot of it will need to come from you.

[quote HP2020]@essexmum777 when he started talking did he suddenly take off in full sentences? How is speech now and how old is he now?[/quote]
No he didn't suddenly start talking in sentences - his first couple of words at 3 were very unclear, it took a year and a half once he started using words for him to use 5/6 word sentences that could be understood - and 2.5 years of weekly speech therapy and 1-1 support at nursery, he's doing really well in mainstream school now.