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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]15 month old was referred to EI for not having words?  My friends 18 month old says 1 word and the doctor wasn't worried.  Does your child mumble different consonants and vowels?[/quote]

People, let's stop trying to diagnose children we've never met. Receptive and expressive language development is about much more than just "words" or "no words". Ped referred and EI will assess, SO much better than we can. [/quote]

OP here. Thank you PP, I appreciate that, and agree that this is for the medical professionals to deal with, I'm not interested in feedback from online randos on this issue.

However - I do want to answer the initial question in case it's coming from a place of concern for your friend's child. Yes, this is primarily because of no words, but while he does babble, it's primarily vowels, very few and infrequent consonants, so that's also concerning. Additionally - one word would have made a BIG difference as I understand it. If he had one word, this would not be an issue at 15 months. Not sure how that change at 18 months, and also obviously different doctors have different approaches. The doctor also said basically "well, he's a bit behind, so I could refer you to early intervention, or you could come back in six weeks and we could reevaluate" (ie, waiting until 18 months to reevaluate was not a viable option). So, it was clearly a borderline case. But we figured, if we would need to make an extra appointment anyway, and it was free, and it can take a few weeks to get things moving, why not get going now?[/quote]

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