2 year old not talking! Worried sick

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My son is 2 years and 1 month, he probably has about 30 words, which are not very clear. He is so social and happy. Loves to play with other kids. Anyone have kids that didn't speak at 2 but went onto speak? I'm so worried he will never speak 😭😭

At 2 my son had less than 30 words and the words he had were not clear only people who spent a lot of time with him could understand him. He gained a lot in nursery but was still not clear again people who didn't spend a lot of time with him couldn't understand him. I would say ages 5 and 6 his speech became more and more clear but he even still struggled with a lot of sounds such as anything with the letters j or L, P, ch words etc. I would say they only improved in the last 6 months (he's 7 now) but his speech is pretty much perfect just the occasional mis slip with the J. I was hugely concerned when he was younger I thought he'd never speak or at the least wouldn't speak clearly. But once he got his words he's now never quiet 🤣

One thing I found that helped was repeating back words to him correctly, not correcting him but instead saying the word the right way.
For example he would say open as oten so for example if he'd ask me to "oten" the door I would say "you want me to open the door?- Ok I will open the door - now the door is open" the aim is to repeat the word correctly 3 times.
It takes a bit of time with the sounds some sounds he picked up fast enough with me repeating them some took a really long time weeks of me constantly repeating those words.
I also made a game of us saying words to each other asking how do you say "wall" look what shape my mouth makes when I say wall, what shape does your mouth make when you say wall. It directs them to think about how they are saying the word and pay attention to what they are doing with their mouth and also what you are doing with yours. But without drawing attention to the fact that they are saying it "wrong"

My 22 month old only has about 10 words, I'm not worried yet as they are starting to increase. But I know some are much more advanced than her so it is hard not to worry!

It doesn't really matter what answers you get in this board. When I posted similar concerns a few years ago I got lots of rather misplaced reassurance.

The only thing you really need is this simple progress checker as it will tell you if he needs some extra support or if things are progressing just as they should