Two word sentences

[Alice4417]

Hi all my little boy is almost 20 months and is still not joining two words together. Such as bye mummy/bye daddy, up there, big car. You get the idea. His vocabulary in general is good although he still struggles to say certain sounds and just won't attempt those words ! I would say he probably has around 60 single words. When did your little ones starting putting words together. Should I be concerned he isn't yet ?

About 22/23 months. They’re all different. I don’t think I would worry

My dd turned 2 back in February and only says mam, dad, go go go and at a push, hey duggee! She is starting speech therapy now though and is in nursery 5 days a week for 2 and a half hours a day so 🤞 nursery will help! Your little one is still small yet but if in doubt, early intervention is key! ❤️

My little boy wasn't saying anything at all until 2.5 years old. My little girl told me that she "didn't like big snakes, only little snakes" when she was 22 months old. They are all different.

Okay thank you hopefully he will start doing it in the next couple of months

I know there is a huge range for normal development.

Thank you ! Yes he's still very young so hopefully it will come in time. He will start nursery when he has just turned two.

My DS is 19 months and can only say; Da (dada), ta, ball, spoon and down.
He's mainly babbling and pointing at the moment but understands so much. We read loads of books, go to music classes, always narrating what's going on.

I raised concerns with his key worker at nursery and health visitor but no-one seems to be worried, the health visitor said around 2 they have a bit of a language explosion so waiting for that!

Its a bit of a generalisation but I also think boys are a bit lazier than girls on the language front, all my NCT group had girls and their language is way ahead, but DS has always been ahead on things like fine motor skills. It may just be your son is focusing on other skills atm!

I wouldn't be concerned now, but would raise it at your two year check if you're still worried then.

DD wasn't talking at all at 2, at 2.5 she was saying fairly long sentences. It all suddenly started happening really quickly.

I definitely think it's right not to worry until they are little older and you are right I've noticed a difference between boys and girls with speech x

Wow it's crazy how fast they just have that language explosion!!

They need about 50 words before they start joining, so your DC might not be far off.

By 18m they ideally will have at least 3-5 words. By 2 ideally they will have 50 words and be joining 2 words, so lots of learning going on. Your DC sounds like they are doing fine right now.

He literally said his first two word sentence yesterday when playing with his cars. ' gooo car' I was shocked ! . So I feel a bit more relaxed now.

My daughter was 26 months before using 2 and 3 word sentences. Her first sentence was actually about 6 words!

At 20 months she had a working vocabulary of 3 words as she struggled to retain words when she learnt new words. By 24 months we had managed to build a vocabulary of about 10 words.

She started school in September aged 4 and a few weeks with no concerns and has really thrived. I didn't think this would have been possible at 20 months when we were thinking we would need to defer her school entry

This NHS website suggests by 2 years

https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/services-havering-child-adolescent-salt-develop-speech-language/

I found witj my children that language always came in bigs rather and small linear development every month.