Should i be worried about my DS ?

[3cutedarlings]

Hello all :)

My DS is 19mths and still isnt really talking, he says dad and hiya his sisters names (sort of) no mummy yet :(. He babbles and shouts, he actually seems to have his own little language lol .

However he will wave, point and he understands loads!

He doesnt really play,he just flits around causing mayhem in his path. He is at his happiest climbing furniture and bashing his sisters with toys!!!! he bites, nips and pulls hair!! this to start with was just with us but recently he has started to be quite rough with the other children at playgroups :( i cant take my eyes off him for a second!

Car journeys are a nightmare no matter how tight i pull the straps on his seat he manages to get out, im constantly having to pull over to strap him back in. if he's not climbing out he is kicking or nipping his sister at the side of him. its got to the point where im considering moving one of the girls into the front so that he cant get to them. DD1 has AS and her school is an 8 mile round trip so i have no choice but to use the car.

Other than the above (of which saddly i could go on all day about :() he is a happy loving little boy, he charms the little old dears in the supermarket every time!! (if he's not climbing out of the trolly, that is ;))

So far i have put all this down to a boy thing (boys develop later ect ect) and have just been sat on the waits and see bench, but am i doing the right thing? i do feel that alot our problems with behaviour will improve as his speech does, it just feels like ive been thinking this way for months. Or is it just me thats expecting to much? are boys really this different to girls?

shameless BUMP :)

anyone??

Sorry you've gone unanswered.

Is it mainly his speech you're worried about? Tbh to me he sounds totally within normal limits - the fact his understanding is good, pointing etc is all great. He just sounds more of a livewire than anything else imo. You might well be right that if he can't express what he wants through language yet there may be an element of frustration. When he babbles, does he do it in a conversational way iswim? I mean, does he 'talk' to you, even if it's in babble?

19 months is very young still, and if you're not concerned about his non-verbal communication (eg sharing things with you, pointing things out to you, etc) it may just be that he's later to speak than your dds, and not that there's actually a problem.

Obviously it's not always the case but it does (anecdotally) seem that girls often develop speech earlier, and boys are often more, erm, lively

If he still hasn't started speaking by 2 I would consult the HV as it wouldn't do any harm to get on lists to see a SALT, but if I was you I wouldn't worry at the moment.

There is lots of advice on this board to encourage verbal communication if you trawl through the threads, and hopefully someone will come along who can advise you specifically on this.