'Speech' at 6-7months

[hobbgoblin]

I can only find the same old bollocky bollocks by Googling which is of no use whatsoever. I don't wanna read some pseudo reassurring catch-all, tell you nothing tripe. I just want to know, please, what do babies say at 6 months.

I've had 4 but this latest one follows a gap of 6 years and I've forgotten what the others did except for remembering that DD said Oh My God on her first birthday home video.

I want you all to say they just say ba ba ba baaaaaaa and squeal a lot because I think my DD is G&T and I will tell you more in a minute but first; do they do more than just randomly witter and splutter?

virtually nothing at this little age..coos and laughs and crying!!! Panic not

my older two had a range of words by a year old, and were stringing two or three words together by 14 months with proper sentences at 18 months and were considered early talkers, but at 6months, mama, dada, maybe milk but no more than that...although they did say the odd random thing that sounded like something else but was just co-incidence really.

Is your DD reciting poetry already?

I think DD's mama and dadas are coincidence, though very sweet.

All my DC have been late walkers, crawlers and averagely average talkers I think except DD1 and her 3 word exclamation as detailed above. Not the proudest memory, in the 'for public sharing' sense

Anyway, the reason I ask is becaue I may yet boast the future brainiac potential of one of my offpring because DD does the following;

Not words exactly, but still...

If you ask her what a crocodile says she screams. (Because of the song, row, row row your boat, etc.)

If you ask her what a lion says she does a coughing thing which I think is supposed to be a roar.

If you ask her what a fish says she opens and shuts her mouth just like mummy does during her fish impersonation.

She can also scream on cue during the row, row song and can also say row row when she wants you to sing it, or maybe when she is pleading with you to stop making her scream for visitors. "No more row row mummy, purrrrlease...I am not your performing chimp"

Anyway, is that impressive? Even a little bit? Does she have G&T level powers of cognition?

apparently i had a few words at 6m.
mum said people were amazed and astounded.

Oh cool. Do you know what they were?

I don't think actual words are typical at 6 months are they. A deliberate mama or dada or even baba is pretty good going I think, but like I say, I can't really remember well what is typical.

It really isn't the norm but my eldest spoke about 40 words by 12 months and got 13a's and a*'s at GCSE so maybe there is a link!!However,I also know children who said not a blooming thing and did just as well!!
Brag though...who cares! It's your proud Mummy entitlement!

Well, my MIL and I both swear my DS said 'Hi Granny!' at 4 months after we said it to him over and over. But we also agree we are probably delusional.

Now at 8 months he does say something that sounds like 'hi' but don't think he actually knows what it means. He is very good at ba ba hal alalda bada ba speech, however.

Thanks for these. Any recent moments of elocutional excellence?

Hi Hobbgoblin - can I join you in the hope that my ds is also G&T?

Ds started speaking early too. Around 6-8m was definately saying daddy and nanny (little tike forgot mummy for a while) and was also doing animal noises. Roar for lion, moo for cow and baa for sheep, when prompted.

By 9 - 10 months could say words well like mummy, daddy, nanny, grandad, ball, book, bike, car, drink, balloon and others.

By 1year was stringing words together - mummy car (for mummy's car),daddy drink (for daddy's drink).

He's now 18m and can count to 10, knows colours (including distinguishing between pink and purple), can tell you his name and where he lives, how old he is. Knows a vast array of animals and their noises, knows lots of foods. Can tell you most of his body parts (arms, legs, hands, nose, eyes, hair, willy) and can tell you what clothes he wants to wear. He will also be able to coherantly tell you what he did at nursery ( did painting).

There's plenty more but don't want to be too gushing!

Can't tell you if he is gifted or not (obviously I think so) but is definately advanced on the talking scale.

It sounds like your DD is a bright spark and will love to chatter endlessly to you soon. Just start being careful what you say around her now as they pick it up oh so quickly!

I'm impressed! my DD is 6mo and apart from the dirtiest laugh i've ever heard, numerous raspberries and some excited squealing, says nothing!
Then again, my 3yo was similar and now rarely shuts up!

Dd1 spoke early (around 7 months), her first word was 'square' which she repeated from a toy phone she had. I have mentioned it on here before and no one believed me.

Dd1 is now 6 and has Aspergers Syndrome and is G&T.

Her sister didn't speak until the age of 3.5 but is now 3.11 and can count to 100. Dd2 is also Autistic.

Dd1 never stops talking.

NobbyD that is indeed impressive. Better not say bollocky bollocks out loud then...

Olivo I LOVE baby giggles. DD2 saves hers up rather but smiles a lot to make up for it.

Marne, my DS2 is 6 and gets quite stuck on counting to 100. With AS, does the talent tend to be in one area? i.e. maths or language rather than both?

My knowledge of AS with regards to special abilities/giftednes extends to good recollection from Rainman and watching documentary with boy that could do amazing architectural drawings...not v. representative.

Hobbgoblin- Dd1 is bright in a number of areas, mainly, Maths, literacy and art (draws very detailed pictures), i have tried to get her interested in Music but she will not learn to play an instrument (a trait of her AS is thinking she already knows everything and she preferes to self teach). She struggles a little with the social side of things although she can talk for england she struggles to join in with others and wants to play by her own rules (which gets on other childrens nerves). Although she's bright she can not dress herself (can do up zips or buttons) , struggles to walk up stairs and needs a lot of prompting. She has a great memory and remembers un important facts such as 'how many seats the airbus has' .

Dd2- i am unsure of how bright she is as she has only just found her voice but she could complete a 100 piece puzzle at the age of 3 and loves counting, I feel she will be good at maths but may always struggle with language and communication.

A lot of people think of Rainman when they here 'aspergers' , Rainman has a brain condition similar to Aspergers (apparently not aspergers). Each person/child with AS is different, dd's Aspergers is quite mild so she's not really anything like Rainman.

Dd had some very clear words at 6mths. It was a bit of a shock (to put it mildly) because both of her brothers had difficulties with language (ASD).

I swear that my 5 mo says discernible words at her chattier times. She looks mightily offended too when I revoice what I think she's just said (and obviously get it wrong) Her oldest sister said her first word at 7 months in a shopping centre when her brother was trying to run away from the pushchair. I was so taken aback I forgot to remember what she said, but judging by their relationship since then it was probably "Cretin". The other two children were far more normal in their speech development.