18-month-old only has 5 words

[Anonymous]

Are you reading to her regularly op?

[Anonymous]

What about signs or pictures? Have you tried either for requesting favorite items?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.asha.org/public/developmental-milestones/communication-milestones-19-to-24-months/

Yeah, you're wrong. That's the norm for 19-24 months.

Not 18 months.

Not 19 months.

It's 19-24 months. That means that in the time frame between 19 and 24 months, you expect the child to develop use of about 50 words -- some achieve it closer to 19 months, some closer to 24, but all are normal if they develop the skill within that time frame.

You shouldn't be offering advice to people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe the answers here. This is totally normal. Cdc guideline says "tries to say 3 words in addition to Mama and dada". At 24 months, only 50% of kids can say 50 words. Every child speaks on their own timeline. There is really not much you can control, though people want to think they can. At some point, it will click for her. Parent of two boys who were both on the slow side of talking. Both were probably at around 5 words at 18 months, if that.

You may not know this, but the CDC revised and downgraded thier milestones last year because so many kids have been showing delays since the pandemic. It's not healthy to expect less of our children.

DP. This has been the same milestone for at least the last 10 years. I'm a pediatrician, and it has been like this on the clinic screening to I've used since at least 2014. Stop being a twit about this.

[Anonymous]

**screening tool

[Anonymous]

Mine both had big word explosions at 20 months so see how the next 2 months go before getting nervous

[Anonymous]

Speech therapy never hurt anybody

[Anonymous]

I mean if it's not medically indicated but you are willing to pay out of pocket, sure.

But identifying a child as abnormal when they are not certainly can.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.asha.org/public/developmental-milestones/communication-milestones-19-to-24-months/

Yeah, you're wrong. That's the norm for 19-24 months.

Not 18 months.

Not 19 months.

It's 19-24 months. That means that in the time frame between 19 and 24 months, you expect the child to develop use of about 50 words -- some achieve it closer to 19 months, some closer to 24, but all are normal if they develop the skill within that time frame.

You shouldn't be offering advice to people.

It is a range, but by 24 months it goes up. Some kids have 200+ words by then.

[Anonymous]

The whole point of getting an evaluation by an SLP is to see if there is a delay. No one on this board can properly diagnose a child or offer advice going on what the OP was provided. Evaluations are compressive and cover many more developmental skills than just a word count. Pediatricians who take a wait and see approach after a 5 minute appointment before even referring for an eval aren't helping anyone.

[Anonymous]

Do you speak with your child all the time and explain what you are doing?

If you do that and you are concerned, it doesn’t hurt to get a second opinion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.asha.org/public/developmental-milestones/communication-milestones-19-to-24-months/

Yeah, you're wrong. That's the norm for 19-24 months.

Not 18 months.

Not 19 months.

It's 19-24 months. That means that in the time frame between 19 and 24 months, you expect the child to develop use of about 50 words -- some achieve it closer to 19 months, some closer to 24, but all are normal if they develop the skill within that time frame.

You shouldn't be offering advice to people.

It is a range, but by 24 months it goes up. Some kids have 200+ words by then.

Right. None of that is consistent with the claim that am 18 month old is expected to have 50 words as a norm, which is what was claimed.

There is typical "word explosion" that happens as you approach 24 months, but again, that doesn't extrapolate to expecting 50 words at 18 months as a norm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The whole point of getting an evaluation by an SLP is to see if there is a delay. No one on this board can properly diagnose a child or offer advice going on what the OP was provided. Evaluations are compressive and cover many more developmental skills than just a word count. Pediatricians who take a wait and see approach after a 5 minute appointment before even referring for an eval aren't helping anyone.

Anyone who can accurately read the developmental milestones checklists can say whether what the OP wrote had raised any red flags.

OP didn't describe anything outside the norm. Can she still seek out SLP assessment? Sure, but that wouldn't be because she described anything abnormal. And that's fine. It's just not because there is a red flag -- that's all.

[Anonymous]

"My one year old just celebrated her first birthday, and although she's walking 5-6 steps on her own without even holding on, I've never seen her hop on one foot!"

"They are supposed to develop that skill by five. Maybe she should see OT to be evaluated."

" Yes, none of us can say if what you said is within normal milestones. All children should be evaluated, because none of us know anything. It's the only reasonable thing to say."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe the answers here. This is totally normal. Cdc guideline says "tries to say 3 words in addition to Mama and dada". At 24 months, only 50% of kids can say 50 words. Every child speaks on their own timeline. There is really not much you can control, though people want to think they can. At some point, it will click for her. Parent of two boys who were both on the slow side of talking. Both were probably at around 5 words at 18 months, if that.

+1. Also 18 months and 24 months are a world apart. If you want to get her evaluated there's no harm, but she is unlikely to qualify for county services speech at this stage. My first kid qualified because he had one word at 18 months. By 24 months, with once weekly at-hone therapy, he had over 100 and was discharged from therapy. Thereafter he has never had an issue. My second kid had about 6 words at 18 months, so we didn't even look into services, and she also took off from there.

With second kid we made a huge effort to talk to her more and mirror language. But she is the one in long-term speech in elementary for pronunciation issues! Neither kid has evinced any learning delays or disabilities; both score extremely high on all assessments, yadda yadda.