20mo misses out the first letter of words.

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the title says it all really! but my 20 month old dd has a lot of words and is starting to speak in sentences.

She learnt to say mummy and daddy and dog very early on, and people used to comment on her perfect pronunciation, for one so small

However, as she is learning new words she seems to be dropping the first letter of each word. For example she will now say "ummy" for mummy and "og" for dog or frog.

she will also say "ide" for slide, i could go on and on and on...

some words she does say the first letter, she will say cat and ag and door for example.

Why is this? is it just a developmental stage? or should i be doing something to try and encourage her to say the correct word? obviously i repeat the correct word back to her when she says it, eg "og" "wow yes look there is a dog, a small dog, a brown dog" etc.

did anyone else's little one do this?

cat and bag and door

Mine does this (and she's 2 1/2) - we put on out 'ocks (or goks) and 'oes to go out and often have 'oup for lunch. I'm not worried, she'll get there. DD1 still struggles with "th" at 5, which I believe is not unusual - they often don't get all the sounds until they are 7ish.

Don't worry my DS2 is 22mo and still only has a very small vocab and babbles loads.

Nothing to worry about at this age.

thanks all, i guess i know its because she is so little, it just semed strange to suddely "lose" the ability to say the beginning of words.

I think this is very common, and to do with them concentrating on the second, more dominant syllable of a word.

My DS1 is 2.6 and mis-pronounces lots of words. He calles the telly the 'lelly', Thomas is 'Momus', is friend Ellie is also 'Lelly', yet words like Mummy and Daddy are crystal clear.

My friends mum is a retired SALT and said that this kind of mis-pronounciation is very common, as they are repeating the second more dominant syllable. It sounds like your DD is doing something similar.

that makes so much sense jojay thank you! i was only concerned as i've never heard any other child do this! all of hr similar aged friends are non-speakers or are fluent!!