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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

+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.[/quote]

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