moms of around 18 mth olds ...

how much is your DC talking?

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DS is 17 months old...he understands more than he talks but says the following:

Dada
Mommy
Baba
Baby
No (to everything, whether the answer is yes or no )
Oh no
Wow
Whoa
Plane
Thank you (in his own language )

I can ask him to get things for me and he completely understands what I'm asking...so even though he doesn't have so many words, I'm not worried about it just yet.

Re: moms of around 18 mth olds ...

not a mom yet, but i'm a speech therapist. 18 months or so is usually when the real "explosion" of words tends to happen. children start to become like parrots and repeat everything they hear and really start to associate objects with the words. and usually by 2 or a little after, they start to put 2 words together.
what is your child saying so far?? any words at all? any babbling?? let me know if you have any questions!

Re: moms of around 18 mth olds ...

At 18 months my daughter was saying A LOT but I think speech is her area of advancement.

We had made a list (aphabetically, yea I'm insane) and she had 138 words on the list, and a few phrases.

About 90 of the words were things that she said all the time, like thank you, cheese, drink, juice, peepee, things like that.

However I think somewhere around 20-words is more normal for that age, maybe even 50.

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Andrew will be 18 months next week and says a lot. He is now even saying sentences. He has a large vocabulary but the ped said he is advanced in his language skills. And can count if I count with him

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DD is 21 mths and only has about 20 words. She undserstands EVERYTHING and uses signs and points to what she wants. We had EI last week and they have not gotten back to us yet. They did say she was very advanced in her physical development - I thiink that is what they called it for running, jumping, climbing etc so that maybe the reson why her speech is slower coming.

Get her checked out if you are worried.

Re: moms of around 18 mth olds ...

I'm a speech pathologist also and you should expect about 10-15 words at 18 months. 50 words actually aren't expected until 2 years old. Once they acquire a handful of words you should really start to see the language explosion.

My DS is pretty advanced in this area. I made a list too because I was curious to see how many words he actually had and he had about 200 words at 18 months and had started to combine words into 2 word phrases. Although some kids will definitely have way more than 10-15 words at this age, you shouldn't worry if yours doesn't. Feel free to FM me if you have any concer

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I think DD has about 20 words she says everyday.

She understands everything that we say to her.

I have noticed in the past week - she is saying a new word every day



Some of them are:
Mom
Dada
Daddy
Casey
Cheese
Ernie
bird
Big Bird
three
dog
sock
yeah
outside
night night
bye bye
hi
see ya
Eye
shoe
shoes
book
what's that
what's this
who's that
who's this


it could be more - this is all I can think of off the tope of my head - I don't write them down.

Message edited 11/12/2007 2:00:47 PM.

Re: moms of around 18 mth olds ...

Ellie also understands alot more than she says but she says quite a few words and phrases now. She says most things in context now as opposed to just blurting out things
dada
mama
No
Oh no
Uh oh
I got it
I did it
Bye Bye
Hi
Hiya (thanks to mickey mouse clubhouse)
chicken
peas
waffle
eat
more
night night
Thank you
watch (for tv)
most animal names and sounds they make
she can also try to count to ten if you count with her
Juice

And many more so I guess there's more than I realize.

Re: moms of around 18 mth olds ...

Posted by beachgirl

DD is 21 mths and only has about 20 words. She undserstands EVERYTHING and uses signs and points to what she wants. We had EI last week and they have not gotten back to us yet. They did say she was very advanced in her physical development - I thiink that is what they called it for running, jumping, climbing etc so that maybe the reson why her speech is slower coming.

Get her checked out if you are worried.

Re: moms of around 18 mth olds ...

bumping for the night crew

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Not much over here. She just cries all the time

I never really added up her words. But she has a lot. Nothing she strings together, but can say enough to get her point across.

Re: moms of around 18 mth olds ...

Hmmm, Ava has probably over 200 words, easily and speaks in 2-3 word utterances/sentences.
That being said, I think that just goes to show you the range that children this age have in their speech. The spectrum of what's "normal" is as varied as can be.

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Now I feel ike Sara should have received services Her words are:

mama
Sara
Dada (rarely - uaually its mama )
doggie
baby
apple
Hi
Bye
nana ( Bannana)
Elmo
T ( TV)
want more
you
me
mine
Da (Yes)
no
bubbles
juice
cheese
book
I bite
shoe
jacket
out
up
P ( pizza)
pee pee
baoon ( balloon)
night night
uh oh
counts 1 2 3
thinks she says the abc's but is really not

COuld be more I am forgetting


I guess this is not bad - Sara is 21 months but rarely stings two words together. She does understand everything though.

Message edited 11/12/2007 9:18:34 PM.