Increasing vocab in 19 month old

[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.

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

I think he sounds perfectly normal, Ava is 'ahead' in her speach according to out MCHN but i think thats because i could speak under water with concrete in my mouth as DP says... Shes 21mths now and has only just started properly with the animal noises, if we ask her what a duck does etc she will tell us.
At 15mths old she was already putting 4 words together, JACK, CASS GET HERE or JACK CASS SIT DOWN (our dogs) and the MCHN couldn't believe it.
Some of the kids in our MG are 21mths and probably say less than your LO.. i wouldn't worry too much, your doing all the right things, reading, talking.. theres not much more you can do.

One thing i did do with Ava was play lots of music, if the TV was off the radio or CD's were on, she had books of her own she could sit and look at (cardboard so she didn't rip them) and we talked to her flat out, also got her that talking dog that says hand etc, those kinds of toys are great cos they are fun and teach them a lot!

[Mad Scientist]

I think he sounds perfectly normal, Ava is 'ahead' in her speach according to out MCHN but i think thats because i could speak under water with concrete in my mouth as DP says... Shes 21mths now and has only just started properly with the animal noises, if we ask her what a duck does etc she will tell us.
At 15mths old she was already putting 4 words together, JACK, CASS GET HERE or JACK CASS SIT DOWN (our dogs) and the MCHN couldn't believe it.
Some of the kids in our MG are 21mths and probably say less than your LO.. i wouldn't worry too much, your doing all the right things, reading, talking.. theres not much more you can do.

One thing i did do with Ava was play lots of music, if the TV was off the radio or CD's were on, she had books of her own she could sit and look at (cardboard so she didn't rip them) and we talked to her flat out, also got her that talking dog that says hand etc, those kinds of toys are great cos they are fun and teach them a lot!

We did and had all that stuff too and DD1 was still a late talker! Just shows how different every kid is huh?!

[*Beema*]

We read DD lots of books, but she learns more word just day to dy by us saying what something is and getting ehr to repeat it, lots of books that have just a picture and the names of the "thing" like the my first words book. We started out with pointing at the iamge and say what the word was, then she would then be able to look at them and in time point at what was each one when we said the name, now we can point at the object and she say the same, we then relate that back to the actualy object she see's everday, like a real ball, door, window, house. We do a lot of finding the object in the picture books as well as reading the story, and the stories we chose we keep the text to a limited amount as she will get bored and want to turn the page. But she is lasting longer now and really enjoying sitting and listening to a whole story.

DD has a really big vocabulary, and seems to have really blossomed in the last few months

[SammyRo]

When DD went thru the stage of not letting us read a book properly we got the books Beema mentioned - and did a similar thing, point at the object and say what it was, mainly we asked her to find an object.

DD def had a word explosion when she got nearer to 2, but she's still not making heaps of sentences unlike others at MG, but she is more advanced in other areas, which I'm sure Lachlan is too. I heard/read somewhere that they work on one area at a time.

Just keep up the running commentary and don't stress!