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2 year old - Combining 2 words - Please help

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Rowrowrowyourboat2 · 13/04/2022 19:27

Hello,

My DD is 24 months, is raised as bilingual and was forever behind in meeting her speech and language milestones. All other milestones/understanding etc. are where they should be.

She has about a 100 words which is a mix of both languages but she has not started combining them properly yet.

Only very recently she said ''no more'' but then she started using it as a fixed phrase instead of ''no''. Same with ''apple juice'', she said it and then started using ''apple juice'' instead of ''apple''.

Today she said ''bye bye car'' and then we had a video call with her nanny and I told her to say ''bye bye nanny'' and she said ''bye bye car''...

Do you have any experience on this? Is this normal? Should I worry? I don't know if it's a phase or the beginning of a chaos and I should start panicking!

Any advice/similar experience is very welcome :)

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Rowrowrowyourboat2 · 14/04/2022 07:42

Anyone please?

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skkyelark · 14/04/2022 19:50

I think it's a bit unusual, but I would give it a few months, personally, especially as she's only just started putting words together. Although combining two words is, on paper, a two year milestone, there's a huge range of 'normal' speech development at this age, and if her understanding is good, it's very likely that it will resolve itself with a bit of time.

Is she due a review with the health visitor soon? You could ask about it then. Otherwise, I'd probably see how she comes on in the next 2-3 months, and get in touch with the health visitor or GP then if necessary.

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