Should I be worried my 26 month old boy can only say mummy?

[kentgirl73]

Ny little boy can really only say mummy and hiya clearly. He understands speech normally, can understand instructions, knows shapes and colours just cant speak! He does alot of actions and pulling you to get what he wants, and for words like milk its gur gur and dummy is yum yum!
He has an old sister who is 6 and plays well with her, he is around children at his chilminders and she has said to not be concerned........just want some advice.Will be taking him to the clinic on thursday and hopefully will speak to a HV then....

Hi I know exactly how you feel. My ds is 28 months and will only say mummy, dada and bye. In the past few weeks even the sounds he makes are getting less. I saw the hv at xmas and told her I was concerened so she book him in with the speech therapist for next week. When you speak to the hv get her to put him on the waiting list for speech therapy because there cna be a long wait and that way if he starts talking you can cancel it but its there if you need it. But remember as well that they do all do things in their own time and hopefully ours will start talking when they want to!

hi - thanks for quick response ! I did ring the HV and she said around this age they should know 50/100 words, but when he has his 27th mth check (replaces 18 mth and 3 yr check) we can look then! But he isnt going to know 50 words in a mth and i would rather get started now then wait - thanks for the advice, will ask about Speech therapy on thursday

My ds understands everything you say in fact probably far too much I hate too think what he will say when he does start speaking. Think his lack of speech over the past few weeks could be due to having the tv on so much over xmas but he starts nursery tomorrow so has a week too start speaking before the speech therapist sees him! Good luck I hope you get it sorted on thurs - be pushy if you have to!

I will thank you - good luck with the first session too....

sounds exactly like mine, although he is younger - 2 at the end of the month.
atm I am not worried, but I know that once he passes 2 I will start getting more concerned.
Like yours though he knows exactly what we are saying to him, and communicates well with us - just not verbally (although he has developed a very definite "Noooooooo" in the last week or so).
MY ds1 was latish (although not this late) and I didn't talk until I was over 2.

Just a thought (& sorry if teaching you to suck eggs), do you sing a lot of action nursery rhymes with him, over and over? Both mine acquired language quicker if there was an action associated with the word. And lots of talk about the word you want them to use - today, I had a very interesting one-sided conversation about shoes

i do a lot of one sided talking but unfortunately ds hates my singing and puts his hands over his ears! Definate difference between him and dd, she already makes lots of noises and loves being sung to so think she will be an early talker. Did introduce some signing for please, thank you and I love you and he is much happier for it but dont know whether it was the right thing to do.

My son at 24 months didn't even say mummy or mama (he's not at nursery before you all jump to conclusions)how depressing is that? He could say dada though....

5 months later it's all a distant memory and he even pronounces fox correctly.