20 months old, little to no speech.

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My 20 months old barely has any speech.

His receptive language is fantastic, he understands most of the things I say in German and English, loves to help with all the chores, very busy boy, loves trains, balls, ball runs, stacky toys and we could read all day but he has no real speech. He says mam for me, bubbles (baba), Ga for Alexa, bobo when he's pooped his pants. You can somewhat see he tries to say words but he has a hard time forming words in his mouth.

He communicates by pointing and saying ah-ah. An example, he was having dinner, stopped eating, really wanted to get out his chair which is unusual so lifted him out, he showed me he wants me to follow him, got his little step, stepped on it, he pointed to the glasses and then I realised he wanted a drink but he wouldn't say yes or no either. Anyway, he then had his drink and we continued to have dinner. P.s. his bottle is usually on the table.

Hey,

Thank you for sharing this !!
It seems like your son has began to develop his receptive language skills. It seems like he may have a bit of difficulties with his expressive language skills i.e. communicating his needs to you.

Have you tried to give him options i.e. 'milk' or 'water' whilst showing him? Here is a page that helped me when going through something similar chatter-bug.com/conditions/expressive-language-difficulties/

Hope this helps !!

So what worked for me as, for the same example you used about his drink, I would say the word three times in different sentences;

Would you like your cup?
Jacks cup is blue
What a lovely cup

So he started realising what his cup was and eventually, started asking for his cup.

When he's playing with his trains, say choo choo etc

A lot of repetitiveness, and singing worked great for us.

And even when he's saying bobo for what I'm guessing he's trying to say is poo poo, I would say Jacks done a poo poo let's get changed. Don't correct him by saying no it's this, you just say the word correctly.
They all get words 'wrong' when learning due to trying to pronounce.

It sounds like he is being brought up as bilingual. I wouldn’t worry: bilingual children often develop language skills later than children just learning the one language

Its really normal for children with 2 languages to have a delay with their speech copared to peers with one language.