My 19th month old boy can, but often doesn't bother, say Mama. Same with Dada. That's all. Nothing else. Nothing consistent anyway. Sometimes I think he says something so I praise him and repeat the word enthusiastically but then he wont say it ever again.
He is extremely sociable, loves books and cars. Doesn't have a tablet but watches TV. Not excessively I don't think. Maybe 30 mins a day. Sometimes more sometimes none. He understands most of what we say to him. Sleeps great, eats well most of the time, goes to nursery 3 days a week.
He was referred to SALT who we saw last month and she said he has a "severe expressive language delay". She gave us some exercises to try. Mostly just slowing down on talking to him in sentences and focusing on one word at a time. Like instead of saying "throw the big red ball to mummy" just say "throw ball". I get the logic of this is to help him identify the important words to copy but when I talk to him like that he looks at me like, why are you being weird....
We aren't seeing SALT again for another month. Anyone have any experience this and have any ideas how I can help him? He's starting to get very cross with me that I often don't understand his grunts and random pointing. 😫