What does your 18m old say?

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Words?
Sentences?
Count?
Understand counting?
Colours?
Shapes?

At that age he said mumma dadda boo and roar

There was a speech therapist on another poster the other day so said the average 18 months old says 20 words. I got worried about my 18 month old but in the last two weeks age she was learnt over well over 10 new words.

Last weeks she repeated the words two and three after I said them, but it was a one off. She says blue (bloo) and points at things and says bloo to ask the colour.

She put two or three words together occasionally like “Mama meow water” to mean Mum the cat is drinking his water or “DD1 nanana yuk” when her older sister put a banana skin in bin.

She is nearly 19 and has made a huge leap with her language skills in the last week.

I remember that DD1 knew colours and shapes at the 2 year check and the nursery nurse notice when she playing with toys and she was very surprised because it’s unusual.

Are you worried? Or do you think you think you have a genius?

@Thatwentbadly not unusual to know colours and shapes at two.

My 18 month old speaks in 2/3/4 word sentences and has a very wide vocabulary, but I put it down to her being in the company of her big sister every waking hour of every day, who is a total chatterbox (and was also an early talker)

My 18 month old also says some numbers and counts to two, but again totally picked up from her sister.

I don’t think it’s helpful to compare though. They are all so different and will get there in their own time.
Do you have a particular concern?

Absolutely not useful to compare. How they are at 18 months is nothing to do with how they will be as adults. At 18 months when my little boy had 3/4 words the HV told me to come back when he was 2 and had no concerns at all. He’s 3 now and his language is where it should be

The range of normal is huge. Dd1 had a fair few words but was very slow to properly start talking and is on the pathway to an autism diagnosis.

Dd2 was taking in full sentences by 18 months. And I mean proper sentences. It was amazing and showed me truly how different kids are.

I think it's always different. Up until a couple of weeks ago my 18m old barely said anything then yesterday she knew 20 flash cards, star, book, ball, cow, that sort of thing. She calls her dad daddy and knows the word mama but doesn't yet associate it with calling it to me. Nursery has helped her loads.

Watching with interest as I have an 18 month old son.

Up until a month ago, he was still grunting at us but he's come on alot all of a sudden.

He knows a few words like mummy/daddy/car/shoe/more/bird/apple/pippo(hippo). He keeps saying kabi and we haven't figured out what he means by that.

One of the more noticeable things we've noticed recently is that tries to sing lines he recognises from nursery rhymes.

When mine was 18 months she said ‘mummy’ ‘daddy’ and ‘that’. That was it.

She is now 22 months and still not doing most of the things you list OP, though she understands lots and has about 15-20 words. I raised it with my HV and she said they never worry til two.

Just curious really. My 18m doesn't say much but my friend's says things like

Bye Daddy See you soon
Daddy work phone daddy?
Moma where are you?
Hat off please Daddy
Pass ball Mummy
Two pink balls Mummy
More pear please Mummy
This one please Mummy
Food make it please mummy

He counts to 12 and understand when he has two of something. He knows three shapes and lots of colours.

He is an only child.

I think your 18 month old sounds advanced counting and knowing shapes!
My 17 month old cant but says mama, dada, nana, bird, ball, boat, and down. I'm not worried as I think he's doing really well!
Sounds like your little one is doing very so I wouldn't have any concerns at all if I were you

My 22 month DS hardly says a thing. Just recently picked up car, hat, up, down & bye.
I think it could be because his big sister never stops talking so he doesn't get a chance.
He understands lots of words so I'm not concerned at all. I'm sure by 3 he'll be chatting non stop and I'm in no hurry for that.

My 18 month old could do a handful of signs and say daddy. At two he's got 50-60 words and signs, which he mixes and matches into 2-3 word "sentences". Limited colour recognition and can't count at all. He's an only child atm but is in nursery and with my parents several times a week. I think he's probably a bit behind but his understanding is good. Have a friend with a child the same age who was speaking in sentences at 18 months 🤷🏻‍♀️

Dd says mumma, dadda, both sisters names, nana, uh oh, me, no, baby.
Cat, Thats about it i think. Your friends lo sounds advanced for 18 months!

Dgs says lots of single words, puts two words together like help mama, all gone, lets go, read it, boots on, fix it, Alexa tricky, Alexa shark and many others to get the songs or animal sounds he wants and the odd longer sentence like "Don't knock it down", "Wake up no sleeping" He's an only child surrounded by adults so expect that is why he talks. Your friend's child sounds exceptional though.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

My son was very good at talking at that age - around 22 months he could speak in full sentences, with different tenses, etc - but I think it was partly because I spent so much time telling him things.

My daughter, who is nearly 16 months, is not saying much of anything yet, perhaps because I’ve had less time to devote to her. She is however stronger and more agile than he was.

But it’s useless to compare. They’re all different.

Mine is saying about 40 single words at the moment but not joining words together yet. He knows some colours and lots of animals). We haven't really tried to teach counting yet. I think my older two were joining two words at around this age but I can't remember for sure.

My 19 month old has only started to join two words in the last couple of weeks, so things like 'daddy hide' or 'pear please'

She doesn't have any colours or numbers, nor would I expect her to really. She says 'two' when she sees a matching pair but I'm not sure she actually knows what that means mathematically.

17 months here and only mama, dada and more. But she has lots of 'sounds' that she uses to talk to us. Like pig, dog, duck, dog sounds etc and other made up words like 'nah' that means rubbish or dirty. She understands a lot of language and can point out tons of things in books so I'm not worried, her speech will catch up when she's ready I'm sure!

Mine has around 20 words. He can do two word sentences but doesn't unless it's really important to him.

A lot, I think, is about personality. My older one is a massive extrovert and was super keen to talk. My younger one only talks when he really wants to communicate something: e.g. more snack!

My 20 month has really come on recently with her words but is very behind. She was walking at 9 months!

It really gets to me when parents say this:

^ 22 months he could speak in full sentences, with different tenses, etc - but I think it was partly because I spent so much time telling him things.^

As opposed to the parents whose baby’s don’t talk much because they are abandoned in a cellar?

It’s perfectly normal for a 18 month old not to say more than a few words & animal sounds.

I completely agree @Kokosrieksts People seem to accept that babies are / aren’t early walkers etc but speech is somehow to do with parental input.

I felt so much guilt about my eldest’s lack of speech. As it turns out she is highly likely to be diagnosed as autistic. It took my second very verbal daughter to turn up (who I did nothing different with, if anything, I did less!) for my to realise it wasn’t me, kids are just different.