children and talking/speech

does anyone here have a child who talks well has done so from a younge age..do they sometimes appear to be older..like Megan is 2 years 3 months and because she talks so well I sometimes forget she is only 2.

ironically a mum I know with a 19 month old doesnt say much and she seems so much younger than Megan did at the same age. if that makes sense.

YES!!! Tom has been talking really well....full sentences, quite complex concepts etc for a while and I forget that he is only 2.5yrs. It doesnt help that he hangs out with 3yr+ kids and speaks as well if not better than them and that he is my eldest.

Poor guy...I do have to remind myself how little he really is.

I constantly have to tell people that luek is "only" 2 - they tend to look at his size and social ability and decide he is at least three. His speech is great and he is a confident little boy, so easy to think he is older than he is.

DH and I keep reminding ourselves as we are dealing with a 2yr old tantrum that he is only 2!

C was talking in 3 or 4 (sometimes 5 ) word sentences before she was one .
When I took her to plunket at 2 her vocab was between 150 -250 words .
She still talks a lot , wont blimming shutup actually ......

Josh is like that. He too is a big boys and people forget he is only 3.

Andrew was a little different he had bad ear issues but once they were sorted he took off.

My 19month old hardly says a word apart form the odd mama or dada. She understands a hell of a lot but just doesnt speak english as such. I;m not worried cos i know one day she will wake up and I won;t be able to shut her up.

whitewave wrote: Hope I'm not thread hijacking, but what are the typical "benchmarks" when it comes to language? I worry that my son is the other way round, and not talking as much as the "average" 1 year old. He can say "mama", "dada", "bubba" and he whispers something that we think is "pretty"! But other than stringing sounds together, there's been nothing else. When would you start to worry about language development?

A few words at one is fine! there is a huge range of development that is considered within the normal range. To give you a rough indication;

around 12 months first words start to appear. They understand names of familiar objects/people and some simple instructions.

around 18- 24 months they reach 50-60 word vocab and start combining words to make two word phrases.They are able to follow simple instructions and understand simple questions (i.e. give me teddy, where is the cat?, push the car). Their speech is 25% intelligible to strangers.

24-36 months - phrases of 2-4 words. Vocab of 150-300 words. They understand 2 step instructions (e.g. get your bag and put it in your room). Their understanding of concepts is improving (e.g. on/under, hot/cold, heavy, big/small, high/low, stop/go, slow/fast etc). Their speech is 50-75% intelligible to strangers.

36-48 months - length of phrases increase - 4+ words, They show understanding of questions, who, where, what etc...Their speech is 90% intelligible to strangers.

48 -60 months- complex intelligible sentences...

These are the averages based on normative data but the range is huge and up to six months either way is considered within the normal range. Therefore a child who is 2 could still be using single words or more complex phrases and still considered within the normal range.

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