Hi, my 23month old is not using her lips to form sounds at all. She is trying to talk now and has quite a few words that I recognise, though very few other people recognise but she will not be persuaded to use her lips. For example I am called "Nonny" not mummy, please is prononced "tease", our dog Ebony is called "enny" and so on. I have tried to play noise games with the lips with no sucess, have just about taught her how to blow bubbles from a bubble pot to make her shape her mouth and have recently managed to get her to blow a whistle toy that involves her having to use her lips to make the seal on it. Am I just expecting too much at this stage or should I be doing more? It's just that you hear about smaller babies saying mamamama etc which she has never done. She goes in phases of worrying me about her speech development and I have been on the verge of going to seek an opinion about where she should be when she will start to make progress again.
Thanks for any advice