Hi All,
My DC1, soon to be 2 years old, was a bit speech delayed forever but she is now starting to gain new words. She is not yet at the stage of combining words together.
My worry is that all of the words are one-syllable words like car, more, up, shoe etc.
Or she would only say the first syllable of longer words like da for dinosaur, ca for carrot, mi for milk, poo for spoon, ba for bus etc.
She has gained around 40 words and all of them are like this.
Strangers wouldn't be able to understand what she means when she says these words...
Sometimes I am even puzzled because for example she uses the same sound for many words. For example ba is ball and bus, ca is car and cat etc.
Is this all normal and just a stage or is it an indication of a bigger issue that a speech therapist would help her sort this out?
In all other areas she is developing well and her understanding/receptive language is where it should be for her age.
It's only the expressive language that worries me...