https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:09:03 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/two-year-old-speech#post-2687567 Thu, 26 Jan 2017 16:57:10 +0000 LemonJack 2687567@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>From what you're describing, I wouldn't worry. Our DD didn't speak a lot (that we could understand) at that point. Her language exploded around 2 y, 4-5 months. Now she talks up a storm and we understand almost everything. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/two-year-old-speech#post-2687484 Thu, 26 Jan 2017 15:46:54 +0000 CatchAFallingStar 2687484@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My daughter is a little slow on talking compared to other kids. She turned 2 last week. She has a lot of words and some 2-3 word phrases, but it took her a little longer to get here than other kids I know who are her age or younger. I think what's important is that your child is progressing and not comparing to other kids. I think as long as she is adding to her vocabulary and you see improvement with no regression, she is just fine. Maybe I'm wrong, but that is what my mommy instinct says. And, this is coming from a mom who is an extreme worrier about everything. ❤ </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/two-year-old-speech#post-2683237 Thu, 19 Jan 2017 14:48:15 +0000 gingerbebe 2683237@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mamacat2: so my son was in the exact same position as you but with far less words - mayyybe 50. Ear infections from 16-22 months, tubes at 22 months, speech delay because he had his infections when they start developing language, etc. We knew he would be borderline for EI but had the eval done. He needed to be 30 percent delayed (so 8 months behind at 24 months) but he was only about 6 months behind so they just told us to keep doing what we were doing. We got a lot of word books (Usborne, Priddy first words, etc) and worked on colors too. Lots of singing and music at home. We also started him in a 2 year old preschool class to help in September and we've seen steady progress. He's 28 months now and we really saw an explosion at 27 months (so 5 months after surgery). He started putting 2-3 words together ("pink flower" "yewow duck" "green pear") and he's trying to mumble through sentences now like "mommy uh muh muh tiles?" to say "Mommy wanna play Magnatiles?" Everything and everyone we've talked to said it should even out by age 3 and so far we are looking on track for that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/two-year-old-speech#post-2682856 Thu, 19 Jan 2017 10:32:33 +0000 bubblegum 2682856@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Coming from a mama who's DS is in EI and has four therapist including speech.</p> <p>At two he was no where need 75-100 words like your DD and his doctor tried to put it off and give him time. I think your daughter's single word output it amazing but I can see your concern for the two word phrases and so on.</p> <p>An evaluation NEVER hurts. It's free and typically a painless process. I would go for it. I don't know what state you're in but I'm in PA and if you would like anymore tips on the process let me know. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/two-year-old-speech#post-2682839 Thu, 19 Jan 2017 10:20:29 +0000 mamacat2 2682839@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thank you all so much! I really appreciate the ideas! I think I'll schedule an evaluation - it certainly won't hurt, and I'm hopeful it will give me some useful information, one way or another. </p> <p>@anagram: How wonderful that your daycare has a speech therapist come through at that stage! That sounds really useful, not to mention convenient. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/two-year-old-speech#post-2682768 Thu, 19 Jan 2017 09:08:10 +0000 Anagram 2682768@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mamacat2: I would just schedule an evaluation--it can never hurt. You don't even have to go through your doctor, you can call early childhood services yourself. I had several friends who scheduled evaluations for different reasons...some were told there wasn't an issue, one found out her daughter WAS speech delayed and then she started services and now she is catching up big time.</p> <p>Our daycare had a speech therapist come through around age 2 and do a free evaluation on all the kids, and our oldest was typical. I was really interested to find out what they said, because she has a few sounds she can't really make correctly (like she says Ys for Ls sometimes), but I found out that was normal and she was still in the typical/advanced range for everything. It was great for peace of mind! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/two-year-old-speech#post-2682755 Thu, 19 Jan 2017 08:58:01 +0000 muffinsmuffins 2682755@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS has a more severe delay than what you described, but I do think it never hurts to see someone if you're concerned. Especially with time constraints coming up! To me, the amount of words she has sounds awesome and encouraging, and it sounds pretty normal for her age.</p> <p>We are in Canada so it takes forever to see a specialist, so at his 18 month appointment they suggested we get on the wait list for the public assessment program and could always cancel if needed. We chose to see a private SLP In the meantime, which did help, but by the time he got a call from the public program (8 months later!) he hadn't progressed as much as we wanted so we followed through. He was assessed and put into a group program that starts next month. I am so glad we didn't wait and see like pretty much everrrrryone said we should because I would be super annoyed if we had to wait 8 months til he's almost 3 to be seen...and pay out of pocket to go the private route. </p> <p>It absolutely won't hurt her and it will give you peace of mind. If she needs some help, they can help you with tips so you know what to do. If she doesn't, then great! Of course all our friends with kids the same age have talkers who are advanced, and I think the grandparents are shaking their heads, but it's up to me to be his advocate and ultimately it makes us feel better to help him instead of doing nothing except hope it resolves itself. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/two-year-old-speech#post-2682745 Thu, 19 Jan 2017 08:45:11 +0000 T.H.O.U. 2682745@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Same position here.</p> <p>When we had his 2 year old check up, the doctor said it could go either way. He'd be happy to send us for an eval or we could wait. </p> <p>We chose to wait another 6 months because of a few factors: </p> <p>1. Like you said, he was a LATE talker. At his 18m check up we were in the same boat with just a short list of words he was really saying (plus extra sounds and sign language). </p> <p>2. His sister talks A LOT and based on what we have talked to his daycare teachers, most of the kids in his class have been late talkers and/or very quiet. </p> <p>3. We are now at almost age 2.5 and he is really just starting to string 3+ words together to make a sentence that we can understand. His enunciation is still off but we are working on having him repeat certain sounds and watch our mouth motions. We are also encouraging more sentences instead of phrases. So instead of "More Milk" we have him repeat "Mommy can I have more milk please" </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/two-year-old-speech#post-2682738 Thu, 19 Jan 2017 08:18:13 +0000 mamacat2 2682738@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hello! I was wondering if I could get some advice or perspective on my daughter's speech from some other moms out there. :) </p> <p>My daughter just turned two and we have some concerns about her speech. She "says" 75-100 words, some more clearly than others. She drops the end consonant on many of her words. For instance, boat and bow both sound like the word "bow" as she says them, or dog and duck both sound like "duh." Other words (cat, up, sit, all-done, etc.) are fairly clear. My husband and I can figure out most of what she means from context even when some of her words sound the same as each other. We make a point to repeat the word clearly and expand on what she said. If she points to a duck in a book and says "duh," we'll respond along the lines of, "Yes, that's a duck. The yellow duck is swimming!" She likes chattering away a lot and isn't at all hesitant to speak, which is encouraging to us. That said, we've also noticed she says very few two or multi-syllable words, which doesn't seem to be a stumbling block for many of the similarly aged kids in her play group. </p> <p>The bigger thing we're noticing is that she is still not saying two word phrases, like "mama go" or "bye bye cat" or anything along those lines. She seems to have the words independently, but isn't putting them together in succession, like it seems should be happening by age two. I brought it up at her two-year checkup last week and her pediatrician told us to keep an eye on it for a few months and we'd see how she's doing at her 2 1/2 year check up this summer to look into speech therapy if it hasn't come together then. </p> <p>My daughter had chronic ear infections and fluid in her ears from the time that she was 10 months old until 19 months old, and our pediatrician encouraged us to give her a little more time at this stage as a result. My daughter had ear tubes put in when she was 19 months old, and it's only then that we started to see her verbalizing more in general. Up until 19 months, she had said maybe 10-15 words (though mainly unintelligible) and we did see her single-word use pick up tremendously over the few months after the tubes went in. </p> <p>I can't shake that perhaps I should look into some kind of early invention or speech therapy sooner than waiting six months at this stage though - but I'm not sure if I'm overreacting, or if there's something to it! (Isn't that the story of parenting?!) We are expecting a second baby in April and I know that our day to day routine is going to change up then for my two-year old, so if there's something that I could start now to help support her speech better in general, I'd love to get a jump start on it to keep it going more seamlessly once the baby is here. But at the same time, if this is something that will just run it's natural course or if more time doesn't hurt, I don't want to jump in unnecessarily. </p> <p>Anyway, just curious to see what other moms think or if anyone has been in a similar boat and could offer some perspective. My friends' children haven't had speech issues to help shed any light for me, and my daughter's grandparents think it will "just work out," which (though well-intended) isn't moving us forward. Thank you so much for your help!! </p>