2 year old not said first word. Anyone else had this?

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My 2 year old started crawling at 18 months and at 2 is yet to say a word..not even mama dada.

She is under paediatrics and had speech and language. But it's all very vague and half the time I feel they think im dramatic. (That could be my insecurities projecting there 😂)

Anyone whose child said nothing but ahhhhh noise at 2. When did they talk? Also what ended up being the cause of delays?

Hi mama ..
don’t have first hand experience but for most therapists at that age is more about what the child can understand specifically receptive language and don’t feel like they can for sure identify the problem . How’s your son’s receptive ? Does he follow instructions? Gestures his needs ?

If you're under the hospital then they won't think you're being dramatic.

It can be very difficult to determine what causes a developmental delay, sometimes it's nothing and they're just a bit slow to get started, sometimes there is a specific underlying cause. It's very hard to do, but really you need to put aside the need for a diagnoses and instead focus on therapies to help the symptoms, at least in the short term.

How is their development outside of talking and crawling? Do they walk? Follow instructions? Play alongside other children?

Well that's the thing, they do get very extreme tantrums/meltdowns. All nights of thrashing, headbanging. But we go through periods of the expected tantrums then out of nowhere a month long intense constant meltdowns. So I'm confused. Why would a behaviour be an issue for weeks then not happen at all?

Other than the delay in speech and those episodes. I see a very happy, confident sociable child. At nursery she is very popular and despite no talking she always has friends and is right in the centre of activity.

It's not necessarily a diagnosis I want, it's the fear of her struggling at school other issues developing due to it. And the big one..I don't know how to deal with the intense bouts of tantrum/meltdown. It's really scary, they are so long and intense she ends up contorting, holding her breath.

Well yes, initially the doctors thought she might have a cognitive issue. But she taught herself sign language..which i thought was rather clever 😅 so we know what she wants through sign. So she communicates well if you can sign. And she acts to questions. Like can you pass xyz?..then she will do it.
She can also be quite quick witted and does little pranks

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