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BelleOfTheProvince · 04/11/2021 15:34

Worried about developmental delay was wondering if anyone who had later developers could tell me...
What age your child did most of the beginnings of words. Eg pink not ink, star not far.
What age your child said two syllable words.
When your child figured out how to pour(water play not anything advanced like serving themselves)
Running
Climbing steps up by holding the bannister
Doing scribbles with crayons
Using a paintbrush
Climbing up steps for small slides etc
Tackling steps like pavement drops without going on to hands and knees
Responding to name(was this consistent all the way through or did you have a period they didn't respond well)
Putting on own wellies
Feeding self routinely with a fork or spoon without losing most of the food
Drinking from a beaker

Have concerns and twenty month review coming up.
I'm looking specifically for any toddlers that were on the late side of things (probably not the thread to tell me how your baby ran at 9 months- my anxiety won't take it)

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Caspianberg · 16/11/2021 17:56

Gross motor

Pikler triangle and iglu soft play for at home if you can throw a bit of money at it. He might be tempted to practice small scale at home, at his own pace

BelleOfTheProvince · 16/11/2021 18:31

No he's not in nursery yet as we don't qualify for any free hours.

Thanks, he does a few of those things, but is very stubborn about others so we are limited in what we can do(can't get him to use a paintbrush at all)
He wouldn't be able to junk model at all, I didn't know that was something he should be able to do!?

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Bellaphant · 16/11/2021 19:03

What age your child said two syllable words - around 11 months, but he had the same five-ten words for the next six months, and then started to talk a lot more
When your child figured out how to pour(water play not anything advanced like serving themselves) around 11 months
Running - well? Around his second birthday
Climbing steps up by holding the bannister - about 20 months? We moved just after his second bday and haven't put the stair gates up
Doing scribbles with crayons - again, around his second birthday. This took ages
Using a paintbrush - he has a water mat that changes colour with a paintbrush, he can just about do this at 27 months
Climbing up steps for small slides etc around his first bday
Tackling steps like pavement drops without going on to hands and knees same as above
Responding to name(was this consistent all the way through or did you have a period they didn't respond well) this was early
Putting on own wellies he can't do this now!
Feeding self routinely with a fork or spoon without losing most of the food around 18 months
Drinking from a beaker around 2 years old.

He still isnt interested in cutting/sticking/etc, he used scissors for the first time last week. He wouldn't know what to do if a junk model hit him in the face

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Caspianberg · 16/11/2021 19:10

Mine wouldn’t have a clue how to junk model! I’ve never given him a paint brush yet. And I do give him crayons, but he just dots the paper so far, he can’t actually do lines or colouring in properly. And after 2 mins practice he just starts throwing all the crayons on the floor

Junk modelling though for 20 month old seems a high goal. They would have to be able to use scissors, glue, masking tape etc

ExPatHereForAChat · 16/11/2021 19:41

OP you've got to take some answers with a pinch of salt.
When people say they're kids are drawing, colouring, crafting etc. it's often the parent doing most of it while the kid idles beside them dropping crayons on the floor or scribbling in the general area of the piece of paper.
DS is slow to talk and has only really started coming along now he's 24 months. In the last month he's probably learned 100 new words but wasn't saying much at all before that.
However, he's always been very forward on the physical side of things.
I do think this age is too soon to worry but appreciate that's easier said than done.

Bunce1 · 16/11/2021 20:56

Junk modelling is messy and not about being to independently paste glue, or pull tape, but it gives an open ended opportunity to have a go with support at these things. It’s fun. A d can get something to come back to over the course of the day.

Paperyfish · 16/11/2021 21:03

By the two year check my boy could scribble with a pen and walk up stairs…. But that’s about it out of that list. He had very few words, and they were only nonsense to anyone but me! Feeding, pouring, etc much later. Name response was patchy for ages. Although he did get called sausage for most of his first two years. I’m not sure he recognised his real name for ages. He’s a very able 7 year old now.

ShinyGreenElephant · 16/11/2021 21:06

My dd2 was doing all the running / climbing etc by around 18m or earlier, her talking was really delayed and she didn't say anything until 2.5 but has fully caught up now. The fine motor stuff like pencils, paintbrush putting her wellies on was probably around 2.

Honestly I worried myself sick over her speech and its absolutely fine now, they really do all just develop at their own pace and you wouldn't guess who was early or late by the time they're in school.

SmallWaistFatFace · 16/11/2021 21:24

I think all at about 18 months but children go at there own pace!!!! No one size fits all

De88 · 16/11/2021 21:36

Mark making can be drawing a line with a stick in sand or mud, it doesn't have to be drawing or painting, fine motor can be helped with playdoh or again sprinkling sand through fingers, or even just eating different textured foods without cutlery, for example raisins, jelly.

Gross motor crawling up stairs and coming down backwards on the tummy, toes first, making a den out of two chairs a blanket and a tunnel, hiding his toys in high or low places he would have to crawl under and over things to get to.

I'm not suggesting you aren't creative by the way just thinking out loud as my son also always always avoiding colouring and drawing, was just not interested in soft play etc spent most of his time at around your sons age lying on his belly, pushing a train back and forth! His nursery had to get really creative to encourage him and these were some of the things he'd do without hesitation. They also covered the underside of tables with paper for him to scribble on and the novelty got him going.

NellWilsonsWhiteHair · 16/11/2021 21:56

@BelleOfTheProvince

He's behind on gross motor, fine motor and quite severely behind on problem solving. He's actually just in the normal range for speech but that's the area she signposted me to. She also said keep offering opportunities to develop gross motor by going to parks etc, but this is fairly pointless because he won't attempt any of the equipment and just zones in on spinning wheels etc.

Just find it all a bit disheartening when the physio had given us hope he'd catch up.

I don't have personal experience of this, but a good friend's DC has global development delay (identified very young) and his development often seemed to look like this - like he was nearly catching up and then all of a sudden what he was catching up to somehow shifted and he was still some distance behind average in a number of different areas. That aspect always looked emotionally really hard.

He's still not a developmentally typical child, but he's a great conversationalist, funny and insightful, very empathic and generous, with buckets of courage and perseverance.

Bunce1 · 16/11/2021 22:26

I used to find the toddler years quite boring and so would google ideas to do with my kids. It’s didn’t come naturally to me.

Make treasure baskets.
Empty out the Tupperware and play with it putting small items in/out of tubs and boxes
Get an old push button phone and make pretend phone calls
Finger painting
Make play doh from scratch
Add corn flour to water and make gloop
Make a pretend washing line and Peg some teddy bear clothes on/off the line.

Google crossing the midline and infant activities.

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