19 months and not really saying anything

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DS is 19 months and very active and generally a happy little boy. He can say Ma Ma and Daddy and Bye Bye but he just won't. He understands everything we say and listens to everything so if we are talking about something and he hears shoes for instance, he will go and get his shoes, or if you ask him to get you something he will happily run off and do it. He also makes sounds all day but they aren't words. I'm just worried by the fact that he isn't saying more words or trying to use the few he does know more.

No advice but am in the same boat.
DD is 21 months today and is exactly the same, my DS (3) had a fairly good range of words by now and was putting 2-3 words together.

I'm not actually worried myself as she seems to understand everything I say but am worried because I think I should be IYSWIM!

I will watch this for tips and advice!

DD is 20 months and exactly the same! She had a hearing test yesterday and all is fine. Some of the babies we know the of the same age seem to have loads of words and some have none so I'm not worried.
The HV said to wait until her 2 year check and see how she is then.
She can also understand nearly everything and knows what lots of things are called but doesn't say them either!

my ds is 20 month and just the same. He can say :

mamma
dadda
nanna
no

that's it! He does seem to copy sounds if we say 'can you say tree' or somethinglike that, he will say something like 'deeee' or 'dar' instead of car, 'tees' instead of keys etc.

I am a little worried as people seem to think he should give proper answers when they ask him questions and chat to him.

He understands everything we say, he goes to get his socks, teddy, cup, shoes when asked. Goes to sit in his pushchair when I ask him. Obviously the understanding is there but he's just not able to verbalise it.

Me too! DS is 18 months. He laughs and shakes his head if there is any mention of him saying anything at all! He recognises colours, animals, objects etc but can't/won't say any of them at all. nothing wrong with his hearing - it's a sharp as as a sharp thing!

I stopped worrying a few months ago as was panicking then.....unfortunately (?) he is very very good at communicating and getting things done without having to speak. One morning he was in bed with us and I was still pretending to be asleep...Dh was asleep and I saw through the little crack in my eye, DS leant over and kissed DH sat back and clear as day said "Daddy" More like "da dee" Well DH shot up and was chuffed to bits - it had woken him up! he has never said it again lol. Doesn't even come close to dada either. It's like when he kjnow how to say everything properly he will say it!

Another one here! DD is 21 months. Can say Daddy, Mummy/Mama, yeah, look. Has just started saying "a" for cat - this is clearly distinguishable from her usual
(higher pitched) "ah" or "eh" when pointing at things. She understands a lot, can follow simple commands (eg get me your shoes/a book/your teddy etc, or take this to ...), can point out things in books when asked (cat, dog, baby, buggy, giraffe, teddy, pig, sheep, fire engine, car, bike, iggle piggle and co, rabbit, ball etc) and manages to communicate most of what she wants - just without using words. (Though I am still lost about what she wanted me to do with a nappy the other week ). I go through phases of worry, alternated with "oh, she'll get there soon" type thoughts.

Ah, DS is 18 months and he is very similar. He days daddy, nana (for mummy)and juice. He also has (on occasion) peppa pig, car, ball, sock, cat, dog and a few other sundries but he simply will not perform them. They can pop up weeks apart. In fact, I think he's on the total wind up as, like someone else mentioned, he seems to just laugh in our faces when we try and prompt him. He has two little phrases: All gone (which means actually, I'm finished) and also "there it is) which means mostly, please can I have that thing I'm pointing at. But again, these seem to be on some sort of lingual ration

I'm not too worried. He can make himself understood and can certainly understand us. I've had to calm myself down a lot over it as DD was actually saying her first words at 9 months and flipping conversing like an old lady by the time she was 14 months.

Actually, reading that back, I've just realised how much DS has come on in a matter of about a month, so I probably shouldn't have posted. Only, maybe at least it's proof that they can suddenly decide to make a bit of a leap forward, most likely when you're least expecting it.

Very reassuring to hear that other people are in the same boat - I wasn't really worried until people kept asking me if he was talking in 2-3 words by now and I had to answer that he hadn't yet mastered the 1 word stage yet!!! Now I notice his little friends saying things so I started to worry about DS's lack of words. Like some of you say, DS can make his wishes very clear as to what he wants to do or wants in general, he just manages to do all this without saying the words! He can point things out from books, like different animals and colours etc. If I say 'can you say ...' he shakes his head and laughs aswell!! Very frustrating, I just want him to say it!!! Yesterday I managed to convince myself that he had a hearing problem (based on no evidence at all!) so i tested him by whispering very quietly while I was the other side of the room 'do you want a biscuit', he swung round and was at the biscuit cupboard in seconds so I think his hearing is totally fine!! Fingers crossed by 2 he will be saying something!

One thing that is making me keep up hope is that Mum says I didn't talk properly (more that mama, dada) until a bit after my 2nd birthday. Apparently, on visiting a relative's house at Xmas it seems I was so stunned that someone had a lid on their toilet that I finally spoke - "Aunt X lid on loo." That same Aunt now tells me that her daughter didn't talk until well past her 2nd birthday, when they just stopped giving her things even when they knew what she wanted. Apparently the poor girl sat there for 10 mins before giving in and saying "Biscuit?". I haven't got that tough yet, but maybe I will have to one day?

I know of at least a couple of people who didn't talk until 3. My dd had a grand total of 2 words at 24 mths and was assessed by a speech therapist as developing normally. She is now 27 mths and adding words every week although often just says the sound at the begining of the word. Some of her friends are using proper sentences e.g. "Mummy can I go upstairs with you"

I really wouldn't worry. I DID/do have a toddler with Speech and language problems but there seems to be a big difference between what a 'normal' but slow to talk kid can do and what is an actual problem. To give an example:

""Ah, DS is 18 months and he is very similar. He days daddy, nana (for mummy)and juice. He also has (on occasion) peppa pig, car, ball, sock, cat, dog and a few other sundries...........He has two little phrases: All gone (which means actually, I'm finished) and also "there it is) ""

thats normal

our son at 18 months grunted and screamed, he was 30 months before he said mummy/mama. At 24 months his entire verbal repitore consisted of bao (ball) Ka (cat or car) and bobo(bottle)
this isn't 'normal' and he did need help for the next two years.

the thing about understanding is key as well, up to the age of 2-2 1/2 DS understood very little of anything anyone said to him, he certainly couldn't respond appropriatly to a verbal instruction to go and get something.

My DD is 19 months and much the same. I guess we should all be reassured that so many of us have the same worries, it's obviously quite normal

I could have posted a similar post six months ago. Dd had about 5 words at the time of her 2nd birthday.

I don't know what finally opened the flood gates. she was having early intervention speech and language therapy but they didn't tell me anything I wasn't doing. I went back to work and she now goes to a childminder two days a week and to a play group 2 mornings a week. Anyway something clicked and now SHE DOES NOT SHUT UP EVER!

a couple of days ago she said the sentance "The bath water is absolutly gone mummy, its all now extremely dry"

she's 2 and 7 months now.

she gets a lot of her language use from Charlie and lola books

Thanks somethingsticky that's very reassuring and sounds just like something Lola would say