Typical speech in 2.6 year olds

[TheMNPeacekeepingForce]

Can 'owners' of 2.6 year olds tell me how your dcs talk - length of sentence, pronunciation and give me a couple of examples of typical phrases they say?

Ds has improved leaps and bounds recently and I am just wondering if he has caught up from probably being behind to more the norm.

This is not about competitive mummyness - I am just curious and want to know roughly how he is doing or whether i still need to keep an eye on things

I he at pre-school? They'd be the best people to ask, but in all of this we need to remember that they all do things at their own rate.

At 2, my HV wanted to refer DS1 for speach therapy. Now at 6, I'm told he's the most articulate boy in the class.

Boys often seem behind, compared to girls.

dd3 is now 2yrs 9months.

she speak in full sentances, you can hold a really good conversation with her, and she is really good at talking. but that is compared to my dd2 who has 'immature' speech and sounds, and regularly sees SALT still at 5years old.

MY ds is 30 months and about to start speech therapy.He can say over 200 words but mainly says them once - makes sure its been understood then never says it again!He regually says approx 30 words which as the pros say gets his needs met.
An example is "mum no weewee" or "no more eat mum" His pronociation (sp?) is spot on with most things but a bit lazy on others.I was really worried up till about 6 months ago.Then something seemed to click.HTH.

dd2 is 2.7
she talks in full sentences
holds a good conversation
remebers and can describe things well
says 'Umm, I can't 'member that' when she forgets the word shes trying to use
understands correct use of mine and yours

has been like that for a good couple of months

started talking in two or three word sentences at about 26 months

dd1 was quite quick to start talking too
can't take any credit, they both get their 'smarts' from their dad

my dd is 2.6. she talks in full sentances & has done since before she was two. can count to 13ish, talks about the past & future ("christmas is over now, father christmas brought me lots of presents" "tomorrow can you read me the book, mummy".). she knows about colours & seasons. i would say most people outside the family can understand her. she talks in quite a high pitched voice but is mostly clear. she's a 2nd child which may make a difference, though ds was a fluent clear talker too at the same age.

But what do you all mean by full sentences - do you mean similar to an adult?
Ds will say stuff using a verb noun and subject so that's a sentence right?

He now says things like 'can i have blue pen mummy' and similar but we taught him to say that recently when he wants things, and a lot of the time is still using 3 words together.

I don't feel he has a problem worthy of speech therapy but just wondered. He actually has a very big vocabulary now I think but his phrases are quite short.

There's still a huge variation in 'normal' at this age. All of mine were late talkers, with diverse deficiencies at 2.5yo (limited vocab, or garbled, or poor grammar, or crude sentence structure, etc). DS1 was the best talker at 2.5yo, and even then he could barely string 3-4 words together, or say something that sounded (sort of) like a proper sentence. With DD we had to wait until she was well over over 4 before we in the family could understand most of what she said.... DS2 is 3.5yo and my other DC keep asking "When will he start talking?" although he does talk (a LOT, and LOUD), it's not very clear yet and sentence structure is incorrect. I'm still sure he'll get labeled articulate in school by end of reception, though, just like his siblings before him (none had speech therapy).

dd puts up to 10 words together in sentances i think. uses words like actually. she's a bit hazy on prepositions though.

Oh, crikey, Peacek'Force, if any of my DC could have said that at 2.5yo I think I would have been over the moon!!
"You come me!" (meaning, you come with me) or "You can!" (meaning, you can do it, too) is about typical from my 3.5yo... And he's far fromthe worse talker I've known at this age.

I used to know a group of Yr1 lads with speech problems; your child is already so far away ahead of where they were then.

I was telling you about dd2 (currently 2.5) on another thread, MNPF . She's been a bit prodigious since about 16 months, though I'm sure she'll be overtaken in due course. Other than a bit of pronunciation, there is no real difference between her and dd1, who is 4.

At her 2 yr checkup I told the hv she was speaking in full sentences - hv was a bit , and, as if on cue, dd2 said, "We've got this changing mat at home, haven't we, mummy?" Lol!

Her older sister was a different kettle of fish, though; much more hesitant, and pretty much at the same level as your ds at that age. She is fine now and had a big spurt around 3. I think with dd2 it's a subsequent-child thing of wanting desperately to be on the same level as the older sibling .

Bugger!
Looking at most of these, I need to get DS1 to a speech therapist pronto.
Talking in full sentences and counting to 13?!

Well, if you want the other end of the scale... DS who is 2.8 is only just managing 3 words together and they are still quite stilted. He still often only says the end of the word i.e. he loves LazyTown but only ever refers to it as 'down'. If he wants squash, he points to it and says 'duce, duce' repeatedly. Today he wanted some, so just said 'Mummy' and pointed to it. I asked him what he wanted and he finally said 'duce'. Then he said 'orange' when I know he wants blackcurrant. I picked up the orange and he said no. Then I said do you want orange or blackcurrant and he said blackcurrant (only started to say that word properly a few weeks ago). Its really quite painful and frustrating I must say. Last month he has said a few things that flow a bit more i.e. 'no didn't do it' and 'oh awight' otherwise if he does join words its really, really stilted. He has a lot of individual words. I have been to a drop in speech clinic with him, they want to see him back after he has been at nursey for 4-6 weeks. He starts nursery next week so will be interested to have their input. His improvement is so slow that I do worry about it.

my dd has been at nursery 2 days a week since she was 7 months. not sure if this has had an impact or not.

Thanks - is good to hear both sides of the coin- I sometimes wonder whether only people at one end of the scale or the other reply to threads like this so maybe they aren't so representative?

Probably right, MNPF. If you think yours is unusual, you are more likely to post imo. Honestly, your ds sounds very much like my dd1, and no cause for concern at this stage.

OK you found a SALT.

If I had a child of 2.6 referred to me the "bare minimum" I would be looking for would be 2-word sentences, progressing to 3 words around this age. Grammar still has a long way to go and it's still quite acceptable for them to sound like telegrams at age 2. Speech is often still hard to understand, especially by people outside the family.

A child should be able to understand instructions with 2 or 3 important words at this age, e.g. "Put teddy in mummy's bag"

This is the simple version. There are other things to look for, but if you're only asking about understanding and speech production then that's at least where I would expect him to be.

Maybe, both Ds' have only ever been with me.
I probably bore them!

Oh, and a friend's ds said almost nothing until he was 3, and a year later he's the chattiest boy you could imagine.

ds1 2.7, bilingual. Full sentences in both languages. Typical sentence: 'It [his Playmobil helicopter] is waiting to fly over the sky through the living room and back into my room!' (Noted a couple of weeks ago). It did all rather explode, though, rather than being a continuous development. He is very verbal - words and talking are his thing. Puzzles, OTOH, he can hardly do at all.

Ooh thanks for that.
DS1 is actually above the minimum.

Ds1 is 2.5. No way can he say what Bero's ds can say! A "sentence" would be "hello mummy, what doin'?". He has a lot of "set" phrases which he uses repeatedly. He still speaks a lot of "nonsense" words. His pronunciation of things he can say is not bad but often needs interpreting for other people. He can understand instructions such as "Please can you fetch your pyjamas from your bedroom". I'm not worried about him at all. HTH.

DD2 is slightly older at 2.8. She can hold a conversation and can talk in fairly complex sentences (eg "It's all Christmassy, and they've even got a Christmas tree. "I dreamed a spider was climbing on me, and it was trying to hurt my hips."). However she does get pronouns and tenses a bit muddled ("I do the hoovering when my grown up" = I'll do the hoovering when I'm grown up".) Past events are often referred to as "last night" (even if it was actually last month). She asks 1000s of "why" questions, eg "Why are we not cats any more?", "Why don't rabbits like bread?"

I understand 95% of what she says but often find myself interpreting to other people, even dh.

Be very proud of your dd melpomene!

My ds was 3 yeaterday & his speech is way behind what dd's was at that age.

He is awake at the minute & just came up to the livingroom with his toy dog, handed it to me & said "Sniffy will sleep in your bed, he wants to sleep with his mammy" A couple of weeks ago he wouldn't have been able to say a sentence that long.

In fact in the past couple of weeks I have found myself saying to dh "Can you believe what he just said?" or "did you hear what he said there?" So it will improve in time

melpomene, with ds, everything is on "Saturday night"