Talking.... - Akron,OH

My first son had some delays and didn't really start talking in more than a word or two until he was almost 3. He understood but couldn't communicate back. My second son started just over 2.

Yes, every child is different. Some are very late talkers and just start speaking clearly from the very first word they utter. Others start earlier but takes awhile to get the pronunciations down, and others are really early. And every variation in between....

If you are wanting to encourage your child to speak well, then talk to him. And use your normal speech, not "baby talk". Call a bottle a bottle, not a babi; call his pet a "dog" not a "dogdog", etc. And just talk and read to him/her. Narrate every thing you do. "Mommy has to empty the clean dishes out of the dishwasher and put them away. First I'm putting the silverware away." "Let's get your seatbelt buckled so we can go to the store. Here goes the door. Now I have to put the keys in the ignition. Let's listen to some music on the radio." Take walks and point out the trees, the bees, the flowers, the grass, the sand/rocks, the weeds, feel the wind on your face, the clouds, the sidewalk, which is made out of concrete, and the street from asphalt, etc etc etc.

And don't stress over it. :)

In answer to your specific question about my kids specifically, my son talked before his first birthday, and used baby sign language starting around 6 or 7 months. (It kept his frustration down b/c he could communicate more effectively with us until he could say the words). His full and complete sentences (not "me go", but "I want to go") were closer to 18-24 months. My daughter, in retro-spect, was saying her older brother's name at 6 months. Pronunciation was awful so we didn't realize it at the time. But it slowly morphed into closer and closer versions of his name over time. From just the sound "uhn", to "urn", to "urrin" to Aaron". So, your child may be saying things you don't realize yet, but keep using the correct pronunciations to help him/her learn and they will self-correct.

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My oldest had f issues, Fork was another 4 lettered word and he spoke fairly clear at one year but one word sentences.

Speak with them clearly and talk all the time. My youngest grandson was 2 and barly spoke. He talks a blue streak now thanks to me.

My oldest was a little over a year when she was speaking in full intelligible sentences. She did of course still mispronounce words here and there but that is to be expected. She only mispronounced the letter R(pronounced it as a W)some of the time until she was about 2.

My Daughter just started saying 2 and 3 word sentences 1 month ago at 18 months. Hi Daddy, Bye Bye Mommy, Eat Please, Night night Beep Beep (her push toy) Thank You Mommy or Daddy, Happy Birthday, Potty poopie (but she is not potty trained..she just does this when watching us)

However some of the words are not perfect. Like "Please" sounds more like "peas". Thank You" sounds like "Tank you", "Night Night" sounds like "Ni-ni". I notice the R's sound a little lazy but I am sure that is her just figuring it out. Like if she pronounced the word Oar and Are, it would sound the same. She is VERY clear when she talks (meaning everyone can understand her, not just us)
That being said, she is an only child (for now) and is in Daycare 5 days a week for 9 or 10 hours a day. I dont know if that makes a differene but I notice she seems to be more advanced in the verbal communication area vs the other kids. However, They say its completely normal for kids not to talk until they are 2 or 2.5. My sister in law ended up taking her 2.5 yr old to the ear doctor and he needed to get tubes because something was blocked and his hearing was basically nothing. After the tube surgery he ended up learning VERY fast

DS is now 25mos and is just starting to talk in sentences. There is still a lot of babble. So we get a mix of babble and words, depending on how excited he is about what he's trying to tell us. He's also still learning a lot of words, so when he doesn't know something, he points at it and calls it "this".

Pronunciation is 50/50. But everytime we hear him say something wrong, we just say it back to him how it should be. Eventually, he gets it.
For example: for a long time, an airplane was "ah-dee". Then "ah-pane". Now it's "air-pane". We're working on the "l". :)

My son was fast, he was talking before 1. He was also potty trained then too. My girl on the other hand started working on talking at 16 months and by 2 was talking well. She also took longer to potty train too.

My 1st child said one and two words, didn't pronounce some syllables starting at 1 and progressed to a 3 letter sentence at about 3yrs old. My 2nd son started babbling from about 2-3mos and has not stopped until now. At 18 mos he is saying one syllable words like daddy, get down, that's not nice (nah nah nie), so it all depends. I think talking to them alot encourages more speech. My 1st son does all the talking so my 2nd catches on quickly. I didn't talk that much with my 1st , hence why there was a delay.

My son just started talking in few word sentences when he turned 2, which was in June. My nephew hardly said a word until he was 3 1/2 then all of a sudden he was speaking in sentences. My son says most words pretty clearly, but there are a few that only I understand because I'm with him all the time, but they sound like gibberish to other people.

Between 22 months and now (27), my son's speech has exploded. From the 2 word sentences that they ask about at the 2 year appointment to some 7 word sentences every now and then. As far as pronunciation, that is hard to say. There are definitely some words that are hard to interpret, but those that aren't could just be because I am the mom and know the context. He is one of the younger ones in his class and the teacher says he is one of the most verbal.