how early is an 'early talker'?

[dreamymum]

and i mean stringing together more than 2 words

My DD1 was a very advanced early talker, putting 2 words together at 10 months. 'Shoes on. Love you. That's enough.' Talking in complete sentences at 15 months. The HV's and GP's all commented on it in her red book. DD2 is normal. Talking in sentences now at 22 months.

God KerryMum, is it just me or is that blog totally barf worthy?

ROFL at child speaking mayan for water .. and his father can't even spell poo

I'm sure that 'mayan' actually means water in some language .. it is ringing a bell

is "mayim" the hebrew for water

in response to the OP as long as your kid is within the normal range, just sit back and enjoy it.

And I am a sad git and just did the iq test that was linked from that blog... then they wanted me to pay them $10 to see the results!

Mai is water in arabic.

(I suppose it serves me right for doing the iq test... I was sure I got all the answers right and was really looking forward to being told I was a complete genius, even my ds is still saying "uh oh"....!)

omg, he SOUNDS it. I'll diss him instead. Did you read the little bit of blurb about himself and the trials of his gifted life? Hwo he achieved so much by the time he was 5, blahblah, but his greatest achievements were his 3 sons (cue music to the 1960s us sitcom...omg, whatever happened to that?!)

I love you tube (disclaimer, I had a totally different tune going round my mind... that must be the genius in me)

I am a canadian at heart. I think you are right about it not being screened here.... I was weaned on Leave it to BEaver (hooray)

Older I'm sure!

(have just looked at your profile, there's not much in it!)

I have a birthday next week, so I am catching up (but you are right, my iq is high enough to have worked out that I am indeed not older than you, it was just an ill educated guess to start with.... )

Still, all that aside, I was very glad to have been brought up on my Three Sons, Leave it to Beaver, Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch...

to the op.
dc2 and 3, 18 months age gap. dc2 on th elate side, dd on t he early side. at age three, dc2 had the same language skills as dc3 aged 18 months. ie. both could string together sentences.
to put into persepctive, an 18 motnh old is only expected to know 6 words. whilst we expect to be abel to 'chat' with 3 year olds.

Don't know really. Neither of mine were freakishly early - a handful of words by a year, many words by 18 months, too many to count by 21 months.

DS2 spoke 3 word sentences from 16 months and by just over 2 was saying things like this: "Batman is getting down off Robin's shoulders and going to the city of Townsville, which is where the Powerpuff Girls live." DS1 didn't put words together until 21 months, but was also speaking in longish sentences by 2, though not as grammatically correctly eg "Don't like the crocodile in the Punch and Judy show. Got snappy teeth". (And, yes, I did write down some of the things they said, because I found the whole 'learning to speak' thing fascinating.)

At 6 and 9 they remain verbal and articulate, but DS2 is still more grammatically accurate.

DD was able to have a simple converstaion by 18 months, and putting words together at 12 months. She talked relatively early I guess, as did myself, my sister and my mum Must run in the family. She still talks a lot!

Don't think it has anything to do with brightness or intelligence though.

I suppose early talker would be a few words by 10 months, and two words together by 12 months ish, and sentences by 18 months? DS 1 didn't speak a word (except Daddy, which infuriated me) before 18 months, but I speak to him in French and his Dad speaks to him in English, so apparently bilingual children speak later as it takes longer for the brain to process both languages. Now he is 2 years and 6 months and speaks really well in English and some French, but sometimes mixes the languages together (he'd say something like: "I saute and I saute and I laugh beaucoup") which is hilarious.

He was a late talker but is already catching up on his friends (mostly girls) who spoke earlier. Some children who speak early are 'advanced' in their development, but I think that generally, it evens out before they go to school.

dd was saying single words at 11 months and by 18 months was putting together sentences like, 'Can't I have an Ice Cream please mummy?'

She hasn't stopped talking yet (11 years and counting)