When did your little one start saying little words ?

[shygirliee56]

Hi my son just turned 10 months a week ago How can I encourage him to start speaking

And also when did your little ones start speaking x

Mine was saying ‘hi’ ‘hiya’ ‘hello’ and ‘dah’ (for Dad) at 6 months. I myself talked at 9 months but when I was 2 or 3 my language skills regressed and a couple of years later I was diagnosed with autism.

I have 4 DC. Not including mama/dada/animal noises etc, dc1 said dog at 14 months. Dc2 said car at 12 months. Dc3 said duck at 11 months. Dc3 is 10 months and nothing obvious yet. He's said 'bubub' a few times when he wants milk (breastfed), but not quite enough times yet for me to know if it's definitely deliberate or not! They were all saying 2 word 'sentences' by 18 months, but only very, very basic (things like hi/bye mummy or where daddy? For example). They weren't particularly early walkers though, so I think their 'thing' was talking.

It doesn't seem to matter much when they start to be honest. A little boy I know didn't really say anything at all until about 3 or 4, but then started talking in complete sentences

Sorry, I didn't answer your first question. Pointing things out in books seems a good way to encourage words! Repetition etc.

It's not that I don't want him to have help it's that I know he can talk we came back from school and said ooh wheres dogs name? Then started satin come come. Meaning for dog to come. Anyway I have spoken to his teacher again and will refer him to speech and language just to be on the safe side maybe bring out his confidence a little more..the dc I'm talking about has older siblings too and they spoke just fine at the age of 2. I do think every child is different.

Sorry @shygirliee56 I have hijacked a little.

Singing nursery rhymes I suspect is best. And just chitter chatter to them. Be repetitive. Reading books. Be positive and encouraging with them when they vocalise. I felt I had to give my son the confidence to try the words he knew in his head.

If our DD makes a sound that sounds even vaguely like a word, we say the word and say well done! Big praises and slowly but surely she's starting to make them more recognisable 😊

Baby books are really unhelpful here - they all start talking about first words at 9/10 months, which is possible but I've known very few who did have words at that age (far more who made random noises that their parents declared were words, mind you!). It certainly isn't an expectation.

They're all different, but from personal experience I remember one of mine saying hello at 10 months. All 5 of them could talk before they could walk, and I was definitely having basic conversions with them all at 18 months. My 2.5 year old never shuts up now, and it's been that way for a while.

I haven done anything special to encourage them to talk. Just read to them and talked to them as a normal parent would. I actually think they've learned a lot from YouTube tbh.

Mine talked pretty early. People often commented on it. I'd say she was saying words around one year old. Cats, mama and dada

Sorry pressed too soon. I didn't do anything special. Just read to her a lot and spoke to her normally not like baby talk. But I think it was just her, she didn't walk until 16 months though.

My first had full sentences by 16 months ago hike my second didn't speak properly until 2.5. This was partly due to eldest answering any questions directed at the youngest.

My son has a couple of words and some signs at 11 months. My nephew didn't have any recognisable words until 2.5, but now at 3 is a total chatterbox with a wide vocabulary and sophisticated sentences. They're all different! You definitely don't have anything to worry about.

Best way is just to talk to them lots - repeating the same word over and over (e.g 'Would you like a banana? Here is the banana! It's a delicious banana' etc), giving them plenty of time to process what you're saying.

Also worth remembering that signed words count as speech, and are often easier for little ones to start with. You can teach them signs for things they will use lots (like 'up', 'hungry', 'thirsty', 'finished' etc) and it can help them make the connection between speech and communication.

21 months for her first word.

Had 5 words at 2 year olds.
She caught up and by the time she started school you would never of known she took a bit more time

DD is fourteen months and can say a couple of distinguishable words in the two languages we speak.

She can say "bear", and also do some animal sounds in response to pictures (ssss for snake; ahahah for monkey)

In the second language (which DH speaks to her in) she can say Aba (dad), and "asshh" which is the last syllable of the word for snake.

Random!

Now, at 19mo, hes learnt 4 uncomplicated words in the last few weeks - hi, bye, daddy and digger