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Op we're going through the same thing as well. I knew my daughter was behind expressively at about 12mos. I mentioned it to her pedi at 18mos., but she didn't think it was a problem
A few weeks before her 24mos. checkup, I counted her words, she only had about 20-25, I mentioned it to the pedi and was set up with early intervention.
We had the assess. just a couple weeks ago and as a 25month old, they assessed her at being at a 19.2month level. She would have had to been on an 18month level to qualify for services.
So, I'm still lost. She now has about 30 words, but according to the pedi and early intervention she should have at least 50.
I was reading about a wunderkind who was a doctor at 18 or so. His father said his son learned to read by himself at 3. When asked, what special they did, he said, nothing, they let him watch a lot of Sesame Street and he picked up letters.
I was reading at age 3, and no one taught me. I was raised by my grandmother, and was born in 1970, so it was not a matter of my being drilled and hours and hours spent on early childhood ed stuff. That was not in vogue then. The educational highlight of my day was being plopped down to watch Sesame Street, Electric Company, and Zoom. Oh, and Captain Kangaroo in the morning. I am pretty sure Big Bird and Grover taught me how to read.
When my kids did not start spontaneously reading at age 3, I realized Blues Clues just did not do the same thing.
Now, with my 20 mo old baby, "Learning about Letters" and "Learning about Numbers" are in the regular rotation. The best thing about it is they were produced in 1985 so a lot of the material on them is from Sesame Street when I was a kid. What a trip back in time.
My daughter didn't say a word until age 3. Nothing at all wrong with her. She showed me in sign language when she was about 2.
To the OP:
Aylalou makes a great suggestion.
Sign language is a great way to help kids who are behind in expressive speech. You really do not need to know many signs. My oldest really took to it. I'd look up baby signs - those books/sites that talk about baby signs usually focus on the signs that are the most useful with toddlers (thank you, more, again, common foods, etc...)
Is he around other children or siblings? Sometimes the older child will do the talking for the younger.
I think that was the case with my brother, who is the youngest of three - with two considerably (5/8 years) older sisters, nonetheless. He was late in talking, since I remember all he said was "NO" around that age... he also walked and read later than myself & my sister, since once again, we took care of that for him. Now he is 27 years old, and probably smarter than anyone else in the family.
Though I'm not a parent, I am an Aunt and children's librarian, and see a wide range of development among the toddlers. For example, my niece is 18 months old and already forming sentences (with a little gibberish mixed in)... but the 22 month-old twins who come to my library can only babble and cry. I don't think there's anything wrong with them, they're just doing things at a slower pace. I'm obviously not an expert, so that's just my two cents.
Op we're going through the same thing as well. I knew my daughter was behind expressively at about 12mos. I mentioned it to her pedi at 18mos., but she didn't think it was a problem
A few weeks before her 24mos. checkup, I counted her words, she only had about 20-25, I mentioned it to the pedi and was set up with early intervention.
We had the assess. just a couple weeks ago and as a 25month old, they assessed her at being at a 19.2month level. She would have had to been on an 18month level to qualify for services.
So, I'm still lost. She now has about 30 words, but according to the pedi and early intervention she should have at least 50.
That's a bugger. Did they have any advice for you or just a "it'll come when it comes" attitude? And I wonder at what point is the point when we should be concerned?
Op we're going through the same thing as well. I knew my daughter was behind expressively at about 12mos. I mentioned it to her pedi at 18mos., but she didn't think it was a problem
A few weeks before her 24mos. checkup, I counted her words, she only had about 20-25, I mentioned it to the pedi and was set up with early intervention.
We had the assess. just a couple weeks ago and as a 25month old, they assessed her at being at a 19.2month level. She would have had to been on an 18month level to qualify for services.
So, I'm still lost. She now has about 30 words, but according to the pedi and early intervention she should have at least 50.
We were in that situation with both boys. One qualified for monitoring but no services.
What the therapist would do a lot of, and you can do on your own, is naming everything. Narrate your life. Narrate their life. Just talk, talk, talk. I am not a big talker and this is not easy for me, but it is something you can do even without the therapy.
If you can, I would do a follow-up in a year or 6 mos. My 3rd kid did not qualify at 18 mos. At 4y5m, I had him evaluated for the district preschool because of another need, and he qualified on speech. His articulation age was over 2 yrs behind his chrono age. He is currently finishing up Kindergarten and still has 22 phoneme errors. One of the reasons I did not take him back for further eval was I could understand him. Once you know him, he is fairly easy to understand. His SLP remarked earlier this year that he was the most understandable child she had heard that had 25 phoneme errors.
To sum it up, at some point the communication problem, if it continues, may not be that apparent to you because you can communicate with your child. Just something to be aware of because I was in your shoes.
Sign language is a great way to help kids who are behind in expressive speech. You really do not need to know many signs. My oldest really took to it. I'd look up baby signs - those books/sites that talk about baby signs usually focus on the signs that are the most useful with toddlers (thank you, more, again, common foods, etc...)
Actually it was my daughter who showed me the signs. I would say to her: Say thank you. She would place two fingers of one hand into the palm of the other hand and do it 2X.
I think that if you are concerned enough to inquire as to other people's experiences, then you must feel that there might be a problem. The only way to find that out is to get the early childhood intervention done. Better safe than sorry as they say.
While I have known many people whose children didn't talk until later than average without any issue, I've also known many who thought it was normal until it became apparent it was a problem after all. By then the kids are way behind in the treatment needed to help them.
I have a 20 month old son who doesn't say anything yet not even mom or dad. I talked to his Dr. about this at his 18 mo. checkup and he was concerned about autism but after the preliminary questions and seeing him interact with him, he does not think he has autism, and that he's just taking his time to talk, not to worry. While I'm not too concerned because I have three other children and he has done every milestone before they did and is the least shy out of the 4, I wonder at what age I should be concerned. Anyone else with a late talker?
Thats okay. Some babies talk when they are ready. Mine waited a long time too and now I can't shut em up lol j/k
That's a bugger. Did they have any advice for you or just a "it'll come when it comes" attitude? And I wonder at what point is the point when we should be concerned?
Nope, no advice at all.
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