18-month-old only has 5 words

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you reading to her regularly op?

Yes. Every night. She gets read to at daycare too. She has favorite books and I know she anticipates each page but she won’t really repeat any words when we try to work on them.

Some of the best ways to work on words include talking a lot to the child, singing finger play songs together, and making lots of animated faces and sounds to draw attention to your mouth.

[Anonymous]

Ask your pediatrician. One of my cousin started taking until probably 2-3 yo, while one of my nephew was diagnosed as speech delay at age 1.5 yo, his parents were able to get him help early.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you reading to her regularly op?

Yes. Every night. She gets read to at daycare too. She has favorite books and I know she anticipates each page but she won’t really repeat any words when we try to work on them.

Np. The not trying to repeat words is something to keep an eye on imo.

At this point, I think you could go either way. Your kid may catch up in the next few months, and if not, you can do speech therapy then.

Or, an SLP could do an assessment now, and find things to work on, like copying sounds. Your kid would benefit from this and you’d have the benefit of knowing that someone with knowledge is monitoring your child’s progress.

[Anonymous]

OP, please make sure there’s absolutely zero screen in her environment. This is the #1 cause of language development, in my 40 years of experience with young children.

I have a slew of recommendations, but first eliminate any potential causes of the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
OP, please make sure there’s absolutely zero screen in her environment. This is the #1 cause of language development, in my 40 years of experience with young children.

I have a slew of recommendations, but first eliminate any potential causes of the problem.

Screens cause language development?

What role have you had for 40 years that allows you to make such a proclamation?

[Anonymous]

DS barely said a thing until he got ear tubes. Then it was like the floodgates opened!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
OP, please make sure there’s absolutely zero screen in her environment. This is the #1 cause of language development, in my 40 years of experience with young children.

I have a slew of recommendations, but first eliminate any potential causes of the problem.

Screens cause language development?

What role have you had for 40 years that allows you to make such a proclamation?

Jeez lady. She left out "delays" or something to that effect.

[Anonymous]

I have an 18 month old that is turning 19 months in a few days. I was a worried about his speech too. He technically "passed" for speech on the ASQ (10 words), but barely. I'm not sure why but he started saying a lot of new words his month. He said "thank you" (his version) and "please" just today at lunch out of no where. I think sometimes things just click and the timing is out of our control.

Also, I believe strongly on mother's intuition. If you think something might be wrong, then be your child's advocate. There's nothing wrong with getting it checked out and the results come back normal.

[Anonymous]

Since it takes a while to get the appointments for intervention (if you feel like that's the route you should take) I would highly recommend looking up the Speech sisters on Instagram. They have some really good tools on how to encourage more speaking and more words and HOW to read to your kids and interact. That helped a lot with my son who won't stop talking my ear off at 3 years old. It's just another tool in your tool kit if you feel like other things are taking too long.