My son Is 2 next month and has improved slightly with few more words over the last couple of months but he doesn’t really understand or listen when you talk to him.
He can say around 13 words but only a few of those are used consistently such as car brum brum, duck, dog and go.
If you ask him something for example go and get the.... or shall we go to the park then he doesn’t even listen to you just carries on what he’s doing or ignores and rolls around.
He does understand simple commands such as give it to mama, give it to grandma, give mama a kiss or whoever a kiss then he will go over and do that. He also understands come here and if you say do you want a bath he will run to stairs. He will say the word at the end of a nursery rhyme such as twinkle twinkle little and then he will say star or hickory dickory and he will say dock.
He also is very physical, very good with fine motor skills, he’s very good at shape sorters, shape puzzles and starting to recognise colour matching, threading beads, stacking bricks.
He absolutely loves nursery rhymes and tv so this is of course limited but he gets so animated and happy when he watches those.
He loves pushing cars around different surfaces in the house, likes the pushchair wheels, loves pushing ride on cars instead of sitting on them.
He knows body parts- head, ears, nose, mouth, teeth, tongue, hands and feet and can touch those if you ask him and he’s in the mood to.
He also sticks out his tongue if you ask him every time.
He can do the actions to songs such as head shoulders knees and toes and wheels on bus but again if he’s feeling like it.
Absolutely loves water and baths would play all day long with water.
If he wants something he can’t reach he has learnt recently to say up so he will say up up up until you lift him up onto kitchen side then he will take what he wants, he doesn’t really point but I’ve taught him how to recently and will do it if you keep saying point point otherwise he will take you and drag you to what he wants. He does try to say what he wants but comes out gibberish.
If he wants the iPad he will say go go go and sometimes point if you remind him.
It just seems like he can’t get the words out what he wants to say but he does try to with lots of things and then he gives up and walks away.
Our only real concern is his lack of speech, the listening and the understanding because he appears behind his peers quite a lot.
He does have a hearing test booked for beginning of March but I would like to know if anyone else has or had a toddler like mine.
Any help would be much appreciated