2 year olds speech ,should i be worried

[*charmalea*]

ds is 2 this month and was wondering how developed his speech should be ..

a nurse was filling out a form for us and nixon was jabbering away .. there was a section on the form about speaking english and i made a joke about how nixon can speak jibberish but not english .. she looked at me then at nix and fired a heap of questions at me ... and then said , bring him back next month and we'll get a referrall to a speech therapist .. WT

he can say heaps of words but he cant say them properly , the only ones he can say clearly are : mummy , daddy and NO !!

but the rest are all muddled , only dh and i can really understand .. and i have never heard him put 2 words together .., its almost like he just cant say many words , not from lack of trying, but he just cant seem to pronounce things right ...kwim


so my question is how much does you toddler speak and how clearly , and should i be worried ...

[aussienic]

I personally wouldn't be worried.. If you weren't worried before hand then try and relax.. by all means take him back even just to get peace of mind but I bet in the next month or so he has a massive word explosion!!

[Arimeh]

I probably wouldn't be worried either. DS speaks really well for his age - and everyone who meets him comments on that fact - so I would assume that most kids don't really start talking - like really talking, not just jibberish (I say DS speaks Chinese most of the time ) until maybe 2 and a half? I know from all the other kids I've met, I still can't understand what they are saying at 4!!! LOL

If it didn't worry you before - and it took one persons comments to worry you - then I would think that you know your son better than that person.

However, having said all that - it never hurts to get peace of mind - IYKWIM?

[MantaRay]

I wouldn't be worried. T is the same. J was talking heaps better at 2, so obviously they are all different. But the carers at day care think T is fine for his age so I'm not worried and I don't think you should be either.

[all girls]

DD3 hardly spoke at 2 either, i had people comment on it all the time, i wasn't worried she just didn't have much to say.... And now she is making up for it she doesn't shut up hehe She only said Mum Dad and No also so try not to worry

[Doing my best]

my nephew didn't really speak anything understandable at 2, and in the last 4 months (he will be 3 next Feb) you can't shut him up!! We used to get my niece to interpret if his mother was at work or shopping etc.. I would be inclined not to worry as he is talking, just not in a language that most can understand yet..

[Salsa]

Dont worry, but do get him assessed if you and his daddy are not understanding him very well. My DS finally got assessed around 2 - 2.5 yrs and it was when the therapist asked me do we as parents understand over or under 50% of what he says? That I realised we understood less than 50% - and by that age thats not so good. The therapist can tell if he needs it or not, some kids are hard to understand but are making the right sounds for their age, mine wasnt . They concluded he needed help said they would wait till he was 3 yrs to start, as anything before was too tricky for the kid etc. Ds spent 2 yrs with therapy and has made a big difference for him and for us and others understanding him. Its great now he is at school he knows how to self correct alot too.