1yo speech - whats normal and not?

[Karina]

He sounds pretty normal when I think of what Claire was like at that age. When Claire was 12 months old she could say mama, dada, bye and yeah. She did alot of grunting as well. She didnt really start saying many words till she was almost 18 months.

Only in the last 3 or so months (she is 22 months now) she has just had a bit of a word explosion and now can say stacks of words and now seems to be learning more words all the time. I've just been making sure I talk to her lots (she must be so sick of my voice by now!), tell her what I'm doing, I've been playing a game with her where we name her body parts and she has learned the names of quite a few of her body parts now, when she wants something and just points to it I tell her what it is called and after a few times she remembers and uses the word instead of grunting. Unfortunately she has recently learned "no" and knows how to use it... I have no idea where she got it from as we dont use no in our house.

[Visitor7]

I was 4 or 5 by the time I started talking! I had to go to speech therapy, and I got there in the end. Now you can't shut me up
He sounds completely normal, like everyone has already told you.
Soon enough he'll start talking, and you'll wish he never opened his mouth!

[Liz]

Not many words here at all (mumm/mumma, da, and a few other letter sounds.. very few used as words tho I think).. but the baby signing is going great guns.. only have to show her a couple of times the sign for something and she'll try it. So technically she's "saying" bird, please, more, book, ball, light, fan, drink, eat...

If he has good comprehension of what you're saying, I wouldn't worry at this age about speech. But if you want to get communication going, I totally recommend baby signing. We did it with DS, and we had very little frustration from him, and then at around 18/19 months his vocab just took off and many people were saying how advanced his speech was! I'm assuming something similar may happen with DD.

[Freya]

Kellxx you just reminded me- a friend was saying today that her sister didn't talk she was three- but her first words were "That was funny Daddy, do it again!" So maybe he is just saving up for when he has something really important to say

Yeah, it'll be "I wish I was an only child!"