Non-talking 2 yo update

So my 25 month old son is finally starting to talk. He has some
obsession with doors, specifically asking me and his dad to draw him a
door. He presents a pen/crayon and says "a doo", asking for a door to
be drawn. And another, and another..... He says "yeh" if he wants
something. He can also count to three. He was saying mamamama while I
was holding him, but I dunno if that was referring to me, or just
babbling.

Jeanne...

Sounds a lot like my son. He didn't say much at 18 months and we asked
our ped. He did however have about 5 words so we held off on the
evaluation. Then, around 20 months he saw some ponies (we went to
Chincoteague) and all he said for the next week was "hor-ess" in varying
tones. But that seemed to be some gateway because soon he was adding
words and attempting sentences.

At 33 months, DS is now talking in 3,4,5 word sentences. He seems to
have "caught up" with the other children. I still have problems
understanding his pronounciation with some words. But if I look back
the last 8 months, his speech gradually cleared up.

He should be coming up to another evaluation soon, but it seems that
he can hear. I've heard him say entire lines lifted from songs when
he's talking to himself. He also says snatches of conversation in his

Sidheag McCormack...

Just to give you another data point, and maybe some encouragement, here's
what my son did:

22 months: fewer than 5 words
24 months: more than 100 words
26 months: chattering in 5-6 word sentences

We didn't get any formal evaluation for him (i.e. more than talking to
reassuring health visitor) because it was always clear that his receptive
language was absolutely fine, in particular that he wasn't deaf, and that
he wasn't delayed in any other area. But wow was that language explosion
welcome when it came! (And I'm still reeling from the impressiveness of
it.)

He now talks non-stop, mostly with retellings of versions of Thomas the
Tank Engine stories. He said "I love you" for the first time yesterday,
aaahhhh :-)

Here's hoping your son will similarly go from strength to strength now!

Sidheag
DS Colin Oct 27 2003

babble, such things like, yeah ok. (He babbles in his sleep too.)

Jeanne...

DS also babbled incessantly before - in entire sentences - but we hadn't
a clue what he was saying.

I have a friend who's into sign language, and she asked if I would
like her to teach him. But I've been trying to teach him to 'say'
please when he wants something, and he either fights me, or ignores me,
or starts to cry. I tried to teach him to 'say' more, and he just
skipped straight to saying it.

Jeanne...

We never used sign language. But both my children learned 'please' and
'thank you' through lots and lots of modeling. DH and I say 'please'
and 'thank you' as often as appropriate. Actually, I used breastfeeding
requests to reinforce 'please'. If they wanted to nurse, they had to
say 'please'. They caught on very quickly. (One advantage of nursing
three years.)

Waiting impatiently for the chatterbox,

Bateau...

Sounds like a retard. You should put him up for adoption before anyone
notices.

Jeanne...

Wait until he learns 'NO' and 'WHY'...