Not due to covid. My 18 month old second dd doenst want to talk. Does everything else on the milestone list. Her 5 year old sister talks a lot but also started late.

>>But I am super sympathetic to the parents who are both trying to hold down jobs and don't have time to be talking to their kids while they are working. If my kids were still tat little, I would be doing the narration thing that they recommend for SAHPs of little ones. ("Mommy is going to check email now. I am checking my email. Oh, look, 800 unread emails. Mommy is so busy with all these silly emails. People should stop emailing Mommy with every dumb questions that they could figure out on their own if they spent even two little minutes thinking about it....")<<<

Hahahah!!!

I don’t think this is the case.

Talk to your kid throughout the day—narrate what you’re doing when you’re cooking. Read books. Sing songs. Talk about the birds you see in the trees outside.

No, do you talk to your child? Have you had hearing checked?

No, not going to daycare doesn't cause a speech delay

-speech pathologist

If your baby/toddler is primarily cared for by a masked person, THAT can result in speech delay.

No, I do not think it is connected. If you’re concerned about your child and his progress, definitely request a referral for an evaluation. It can’t hurt.

My toddler has a speech delay, despite going to daycare all throughout the pandemic. My brother’s similar aged child has been at home the entire time and is chattering her head off.

Anonymous wrote:If you are working from home and keeping your toddler home from daycare, or are a SAHM but moms groups aren’t meeting- have you noticed any speech delays? We’re having problems and I’ve also seen more people posting about this topic. It could be a coincidence too. We obviously speak to our child but it’s not nonstop the way kids talk to each other all day in daycare.

Toddlers learn language from adults, not from other kids.

Speech delays are very common, they aren't more common during covid.

No, and my child has a language disorder.

This seems ridiculous to me, at least for the SAHPs. For millenia, kids did not go to daycare. I never went to daycare or preschool. Kids learned to talk. In fact, they learn better by talking to adults than by talking to other children. (Younger siblings and twins are more likely to have delays, because they are speaking more to other children than to adults.)

The only kids I knew that had speech delays due to environmental issues were ones whose parents put them in front of the TV for the day so that they could go drink. (Sadly, yes, I do know those people. But those kids are now teens with no speech delays -- they caught right up as soon as they did go to preschool.)

But I am super sympathetic to the parents who are both trying to hold down jobs and don't have time to be talking to their kids while they are working. If my kids were still tat little, I would be doing the narration thing that they recommend for SAHPs of little ones. ("Mommy is going to check email now. I am checking my email. Oh, look, 800 unread emails. Mommy is so busy with all these silly emails. People should stop emailing Mommy with every dumb questions that they could figure out on their own if they spent even two little minutes thinking about it....")

Yes, anecdotally every one of my mom friends with kids in the 18-24 month range is dealing with a speech delay.

My 15 month old isn't really talking yet but I don't see why no day care would be responsible, especially with day care workers being masked.

I’ve never heard of such an issue. But I’d stay away from screens if you’re concerned about speech development.

If you are working from home and keeping your toddler home from daycare, or are a SAHM but moms groups aren’t meeting- have you noticed any speech delays? We’re having problems and I’ve also seen more people posting about this topic. It could be a coincidence too. We obviously speak to our child but it’s not nonstop the way kids talk to each other all day in daycare.