Tips for getting 2 year old talking

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My son is approaching 2.5 years and is getting really frustrated at times. I am trying to help him develop his language to prevent to the frustration.

Things I'm doing:
Reading - lots. He enjoys being read to so no difficulty here.
Narrating what I'm doing.
Making him ask for things he wants e.g. "milk please".
Talking to him about pictures in his books e.g "the white fluffy cloud".

Does anyone have any further tips please?

Nursery rhymes and songs
Don’t ask questions with a yes or no answer, instead ask questions like ‘do you want an apple or a banana?’ so he actually has to say new words.
Introduce pretend play with dolls or toy animals. Include them in your conversations and your play.
Encourage him to talk to friends and family, perhaps even on the phone or by zoom. He can tell them about a new toy.
Ask open-ended questions so he can develop his own ideas and learn to express them. If it’s worms, you could say: “What fat, wiggly worms! How many are there?…Where are they going?“

Get him to ask/tell DP things (and vice versa). So you (loudly) say "go tell daddy how exciting that there's a bird outside" or whatever. Then DP can respond appropriately even if it's not very good.Some

Flash cards are good for both building vocabulary and encouraging talk. Very visual and lots of different activities you can do with them too.

Yes to nursery rhymes as pp have suggested too. Sing them, have them on in the background (music) if your DC has any screen time find one of the infinite nursery rhyme playlists out there.

Narrating what they are doing through play, and using the open ended questions to 'further' the conversation.

Contact HV, GP too, they can get the ball rolling if you do need additional support.

You sound like you're doing an incredible job too; some children really do wait and then all of a sudden start speaking in these beautiful complete sentences.

Expect him to name what he wants rather than point etc.

My DS is also 2.5 with limited vocabulary but reading the other comments I’ve just realised he’s been watching a lot more nursery rhyme videos on youtube(god help me) -and we have actually noticed he is talking a lot more the past two weeks maybe? And trying to put two words together now such as play ball, or I go play. So it may be a complete coincidence or the nursery rhyme thing works as I’ve never heard that before!
Of course he has no problem saying NO!
Another good video we found is called the phonics song. His nursery sent it as a link during lockdown for them to practice as I believe they sing it a lot there and we now have it on repeat most days but he can say a lot more words now than he did before just through repetition etc.
I’m sure he’ll get there soon enough, boys are generally a bit behind! Good luck