How does your nearly 2yo speak?

[FattipuffsandThinnifers]

DS is 22.5 months, and I'm not sure whether his speech is on track for his age.

He has a large vocabulary (probably about 150 words), mainly nouns but some verbs and the occasional adjective.

But he has only just started to put two words together, and so far this is only 'more juice' or 'more cake' (so far all food related, and all 'more xx'!).

His pronunciation isn't great either, much of what he says is quite indistinct. Eg bannister is 'rasta', dog is 'dot' etc etc.

He doesn't use me/you/I at all.

I've read a few threads recently where similar age children are speaking 5 word sentences. Is this the norm?? Is ds behind?

Your ds sounds absolutely normal.
I love all the funny words they say at that age.

He sounds normal to me !
My ds is 22 mo also, he calls cars 'bars' and tiger 'tider' etc. He does say me and mine, but not you or I, or his own name. He can say all our names.
The most words he strings together is 2 or three, he can say 'help me' and sometimes 'help me mum' ! Also 'eat it'. But ,most are one words, mostly yes and no at the moment. Anything you ask him or tell him, he just says 'yeeesssss' or 'nooooo'.

FattipuffsandThinnifers, that sounds perfectly normal. And I am coming from the perspective of having a child with speech delay.

Ds2 was not saying those things at 22.5 months. He probably had about 40 words. He is better now at 3.10 months but still not quite up with his peers.

Ds3, 2 next week, is speaking in 3 word sentences or more.

I suppose what I am trying to say is that your Ds is doing fine. If he had less than 50 words at this stage, then worry a little

Thanks, that's all quite reassuring.

Chatkins ds has yet to use the word 'yes'! 'No' was very early, however

Poshpaws if you don't mind me asking, did your ds2 have speech therapy?

I would also add they are all so different - dd1 was talking in sentences at two and could sing baa baa black sheep and so on - but dd2 was similar to ds, just one, two and the odd three word sentance. She took a lot longer to get going.I think what they can understand is more important than what they can say tbh

my ds is also 22.5 months and sounds very similar to yours OP. Has lots of words, nearly all nouns and only just starting on verbs and putting 2 or 3 words together. I can understand most of what he says but I'm not sure many people would for a good 70% of his words, the other 30% are however very clear.

imo your ds and my are normal!

hth.

Ds is 23 months. He uses "me" but not "I" or "you".

He's getting good at 2 word sentences but a lot of what he says is pretty garbled and I have to translate for him a lot. He says "Donny doc" instead of "Jonny do it" if he wants to do something himself and calls a tiger "Gagoo".

Looking at my diaries he's ahead of where dd was at this stage so I'd say your ds is perfectly normal .

Bocciballs, that has made me feel a lot better, thanks!

DS2 is 22 months and speaks lots of words, I jsut dont understand most of them .

Your DS sounds totally 'normal'. But they all develop at such different ratesI wouldnt worry.

DS2 definately speaks less than DS1 but uses more words and phrases - partly I think because he copies DS1.