Increasing vocab in 19 month old

[Arimeh]

He doesn't even say mum though

Oh honey

Maybe he has a special word just for you because you are so beautiful to him - and you just haven't noticed what the word is yet

[Rouge]

Given that a lot of my friends who have had speech issues have always said "I wish I had have got them checked for speech issues earlier" I would get him checked anyway. It can't hurt and if everything is fine you'll feel better anyway Goodluck.

[Beautitude]

Given that a lot of my friends who have had speech issues have always said "I wish I had have got them checked for speech issues earlier" I would get him checked anyway. It can't hurt and if everything is fine you'll feel better anyway Goodluck.

We recently had his 18 month check and the MCN was happy with what stage he was at even though he was doing the bare minimum. I have to keep an eye on it and if im still concerned at 2 i need to go back for another assessment and a referral to a speech path. Its just a matter of working on it till then.

Mel: I think he does have a special word for me, its NO lol

[Arimeh]

Mel: I think he does have a special word for me, its NO lol

Ahhh. So the same word my kids have for me then

[butterfly_warrior]

Doing better than Sam who is all of 9 days younger!

Sam has "woo" or woof - which is used for all small and furry animals (including cats, rabbits and guinea pigs). He also has "twee" for the sounds birds make. In the last week he has started making a brrrrm sound for cars, motorbikes, etc. And only in the last few days has he come up with NO - and my goodness is he using it a lot!

There's other things that he has said - mum, dad, more, something we think was meant to be bird, but he just hasn't continued to use them. Once we discovered that he had a thing for animals we started visiting pet shops (we rent and can't have pets) to expose them to animals, plus lots of animal books, puzzles. Anything we could think of that would get him vocalising! It seems to be working. We have a paed appointment next week and I'm half expecting a referral to speach therapy. I will let you know how we go.

BW

[Mad Scientist]

I bought some flash cards with a range of every day pictures and words for my DD1. She had about 6 words at 18 months and could say about two of the words out of 100 cards. At age two, literally within two weeks of her birthday she could say 98 of the words on the cards. I did notice a slight improvement using the cards before age 2 and they definitely helped with increasing her vocabulary after her word explosion. I was the same as you. I wasn't going to worry until after age two as I'd heard so many people on BB say that their kids had a word explosion at age two. My DD gives me running commentary on our day now so she's definitely 'caught up' now. You can get flash cards off eBay and I've seen them at toys r us too. Hope that helps!

[Twin Sister]

I agree he sounds pretty normal to me.

We had an early talker here and although we may have just lucked out, what worked for us was music. DS loves music SOOOOO much. I got him a whole bunch of kids CDs and played them ALOT (durin playtime, car rides and bath time). He started picking up words like crazy from his favourite songs and would try to sing along.