Brendan's Speech/Language

[Early Kids]

New things in Italics

Age: 32 months (29.5 months corrected)

Spontaneous Words:
* Car noises (brrrm)
* 'Dats' (updated, no longer says 'da-da')
* 'bye' (updated, now says bye)
* 'Mumma'
* 'oops' (updated, no longer uses ehts)
* 'na-na' (banana)
* 'ta' (updated, no longer says da)
* 'docks' (socks)
* 'dar' (car)
* 'o-oh'
* 'lol-lol' (lolly)
* 'ball'
* 'guck' (truck)
* 'bubba'
* 'bots' (bottle and broken)
* 'nana' [/i]
* 'ot' (hot)
* 'bath'
* 'mooo' (cow noise)
* 'baaa' (sheep noise)
* 'Stuts' (stuck)

Sentences (two or more words put together)
* 'ta mum'
* 'bye-bye'

Mimic words(he understands and does mostly when you ask)
* 'dink' (drink)
* 'pease' (please)
He tries to mimic most words when you engage him into speaking.

Can Follow these Instructions:
* 'Put that in the bin' (you need to point at what it is you want in the bin)
* 'put your plate in the sink' (will also do this without command)
* 'Pick it up' (same as the bin thing, must point to what it is)
* 'Pull out the plug' (takes a lot of encouraging, but he will do it)
* 'Open/Close the door' (takes a lot of encouragement)
* 'Pack away' (will do with help)

Actions:
* Waving
* Pointing
* Clapping
* Shakes head for 'no'
* Pointing to Body Parts (knows most body parts now)
* Puts his finger to his lips and does 'sssss' (SHHH)

[Early Kids]

New things in Italics

Age: 33 months (30.5 months corrected)

Spontaneous Words:
* Car noises (brrrm)
* 'Dats' (dad)
* 'bye'
* 'Mumma'
* 'oops'
* 'na-na' (banana)
* 'ta'
* 'docks' (socks)
* 'dar' (car)
* 'o-oh'
* 'lol-lol' (lolly)
* 'ball'
* 'guck' (truck)
* 'bubba'
* 'bots' (bottle and broken)
* 'nana'
* 'ot' (hot)
* 'bath'
* 'mooo' (cow noise)
* 'baaa' (sheep noise)
* 'Stuts' (stuck)
* 'boots' (from Dora the Explorer)
* 'boat' (from Dora the Explorer)
* 'bus'
* 'pease' (please)
* 'bike' (motorbike)
* 'Ayee' (Haylee)
* 'Ryan'

Sentences (two or more words put together)
* 'ta mum'
* 'bye-bye'
* 'mum dar' (mum car)

Mimic words (he understands and does mostly when you ask)
* 'Distan' (Tristan)
He attempts to say most peoples names, and knows who they are.

He tries to mimic most words when you engage him into speaking.

Can Follow these Instructions:
* 'Put that in the bin' (you need to point at what it is you want in the bin)
* 'put your plate in the sink' (will also do this without command)
* 'Pick it up' (same as the bin thing, must point to what it is)
* 'Pull out the plug' (takes a lot of encouraging, but he will do it)
* 'Open/Close the door' (takes a lot of encouragement)
* 'Pack away' (will do with help)

Actions:
* Waving
* Pointing
* Clapping
* Shakes head for 'no'
* Pointing to Body Parts (knows most body parts now)
* Puts his finger to his lips and does 'sssss' (SHHH)
* Nods head for yes

[Amaunet]

wow Sal! he has made so much prgress! go Brendan!

[Early Kids]

Thanks I'm so proud of him.

As his ears and hearing gets better so does his speech

[Early Kids]

Special Update:
Yesterday, for the first time, Brendan said: "Wub Mummy"

Age 2yr 11m 5d

I'll post an update next month of the list

[Sally2]

Awwww.......sweetheart.......

[Early Kids]

Thanks Sally

I'm so proud of him! He is only repeating what I say atm, but hopefully it wont be long and it'll be a spontaneous word!

[ElleJay]

I bet your so proud of him

[Early Kids]

Brendan isn't saying any more words,but he is starting to do some 3-word sentences and a lot more 2-word ones.

His group speech sessions finish up on Friday and hopefully they re-start them next term.