Talking is Important

[cyberseraphim]

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8436236.stm

Aren't we lucky to have people like this telling us that talking is important. To be fair, it does say that the average age for words starting is about 11 months but I don't think that will shake the complacency of people who think it's normal for 2 year olds not to talk. DS1 had no single words til 3 either. If only Jean had been around then.

"Jean Gross, found some three-year-olds were unable to say a single word"
If she'd been on MN it might have come as less of a surprise. Hope the SLT who saw DD1 at 3 and thought there was nothing especially wrong has read this.

LOL 11 months though? My DD is WELL advanced but she wasn't talking at 11 months. She's 15 months now and has over a 100 words.

Parenting a younger nt sibling is a piece of piss I have to say. I might have another few children tbh. They kind of learn things without being taught specifically - amazing!

Know what you mean - DS2 started talking at 14 months but then picked up speed like nuclear powered rocket - but I don't think 11 months is that unusual.

I can't remember whn dd2 started talking

I know her first "proper" word (I discount mama and dada as being babble narrowed down to words ) was di-saur (for dinosaur) at 14 months, so I guess the jargon-y type words were there earlier...

dd1 was signed off from SALT beofre she was 3, becasue she was verbal. Ha! she had a handful of single words, and some very slurred set phrases which were clear as anyhting to me (totally crystal clear having had more than a year of dd1 using "da" for anything and everyhting - including whole sentences made up of the one syllable - which I had to interpret based on circumstances!) but hich the SLAT herself had to get me to translate for her. obv no speech issues then

Actually DS1 said 'Ack Ack' while pointing at a backpack when he was about 9 months and found it hilarious. We thought he would be an early talker ! . He said nothing again til about 3.6 when he asked for yogurt.

Oh yes, DD1 said "juice" quite clearly for a few days when she was 18months, but then said nothing but "Da" until well over 3, and they STILL wouldn't tell me she was dyspraxic

Ds started talking at 11 months his first word was "apple" which was weird. His vocabulary slowly grew to 40 words until he was 2 when he lost all his vocabulary and was diagnosed with ASD He still has no vocabulary at 4.8 years old. I thought DS was ok because he was talking however he was only labelling rather than using functional language to communicate ie he could say apple when he saw one but couldn't ask for one.

You don't say!

DS2 is still pretty much non verbal at 3y8m, but he has said words. He goes through phases where he picks things up. Early last year, we had "fa-futer" for computer and a very funny incidence of him very clearly yelling "NO!" at his brother who was ticking him off. After being back to talking like Sweep for a lengthy period, he's back to blurting things out. He actually pointed to his teeth and said "Occar dee" several times the other day and pressed on my nose shouting "nerrr!" a few weeks ago. It never seems to stick, though.

Staryeyed, DS1 is highly verbal and I'd say at DS2's age, his actual communication skills were way behind those of DS2. DS2 is very good at making it clear what he wants or needs, while it was a constant frustrating guessing game with DS1. It still is, sometimes.