How old is your young toddler and how many words do they have? How old were they when you saw a "language explosion"? If you had a late talker, at what point did you decide to pursue some kind of intervention?
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C was around 17.5 months at his true "language explosion" - before that, he had 25-35 or so words. Now at 21 months, he won't shut up and is our little parrot, repeating all sorts of things, even those we wish he wouldn't.
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DS is 15 months and has around 10-12 words that he uses consistently/daily. He understands commands/conversation in both Korean and English. So I think he may be delayed verbally based on the exposure to two languages.
I probably won't seek intervention until he is two and that is if he is significantly delayed verbally.
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DS is 18 months and I have seen a huge increase in the past month. He can parrot most things he hears and probably has 60+words now. It's such a fun age!!
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Word explosion at 30 months old. Before that he had a lot of words but never used them. He started parroting us and tv shows at that time. I had brought up concerns to his ped and school teachers but they didn't see any issues. We started private speed therapy at 31 months old. I wish we would have pursued it before 2 when I first noticed it.
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My kids are 19 months and I'd say they are in the thick of their language explosion. They had a page full of solid words a month or two ago, but they are repeating and chatterboxing like crazy right now. Some words are very clear and others are toddlerese.
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My son has an oral motor issue that has caused some delay, we're currently in therapy now and he's already improving.
My standard disclaimer: we're also bilingual, but that's not shown to have any impact on development.
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DS talks a lot and sings. I think I really noticed an explosion around 14 months.
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LO is 16 months and has about 30-35 words.
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Little Boy had his first language explosion at 21 months, another one at 2 and again at about 2.5. He is being raised trilingual. Just by observation,, at 2 he seemed behind compared to his monolingual classmates but by 2.5 he had "caught up".
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DD talks a lot, but she still uses a lot of gibberish too. Some iof her words are so clear though that I have to make sure theer isn't another adult in the room. She is 20 months old.
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My LO started his language explosion right after he turned 18 months - now he repeats words all the time and is adding a few each week that he consistently says on his own. His doctor said 50 words is what they are looking for by the 2 year mark.
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I think between 18-19 months was the big turning point. At 18 months he had around 25 words. At 21 months he now has well over a hundred words and parrots and knows most of the alphabet and can count to 10.
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LO is 21 months now. At Christmas we decided to count her words and stopped once we reached 200. She definitely has more now and is speaking in sentences. I think there was an explosion around 16 months, but it's been a mostly steady progression.
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At 15 months I counted and DS had between 10 and 15 words. I counted again at 16 months before his ped appt and he had over 60! He's 16.5 months now and it feels like he adds a new word every day!
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E is 18 months, and up until a week and a half ago I would have confidently said that he had maybe 8 words. His pedi told me that the animal sounds he mimics count (even when he wasn't saying them unprompted--"What does the cow say? The cow says "moo" "Moo"), as do all of the letters that he can both physically and verbally identify (which is all of them).
We discussed EI at his 18 month visit, but his pedi thought that he is still on track, especially since he knows all of the letters. She gave me some tips on helping him increase his vocabulary and, if I wasn't seeing any change/new words by 21 months we'd pursue EI.
Well wouldn't you know it in the week and a half since that appointment he's added 10 new words and is copying many more!
I was never seriously concerned, though. He's very physical, and I think part of it was just that he was always go-go-going and didn't have time/care to focus on speech. His receptive language is great, and any concerns I had have been eased.
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At 16 months she hit her first language explosion and she had about 20 words. Now, at 25 months, she speaks in 4-5 word sentences.
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At 14 months DD had around 30 spoken words. Early talker.
At 14 months DS has about 5. -
M is 16 months and has about 75 words. She only started walking in the last month so she's definitely fallen into the late walker / early talker category!
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@lovehoneybee: I'm hoping my son son is like yours.
J only has two words and is almost 17 months. We've known for many months that he'd have verbal delays due to his hypotonia and a few other things, so I'm sure we'll have to start speech therapy at 18 months (EI doesn't allow before that), but maybe he'll surprise me and start talking up at storm in the next month. Oh and J is very non-stop on the go all the time and his physical therapist has said that because he is so focused on that, (walking, running, etc.) that could be a part of why he isn't trying to talk much. Our sons are similar I think! I'm glad to hear your son caught up!
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@Mrs. Confetti: I don't know who RB is, but if the person wants to wall me, I can share more of my son's story.
Another useful metric is understanding. At age 2, a stranger should be able to understand half of what is being said. At age 3, 3/4, at 4, 100 percent. It's not just word count.
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LO is 17 months and I feel like he's had a "talking explosion" in the last 2 weeks or so. Doesn't shut up, and definitely sounds like talking, but I have absolutely no idea what he's saying! He doesn't do much parroting yet, so I'm hoping the actual "language explosion" will kick in soon.
He's such a boy though - out of the 20-25 words he knows, I would say 75% of the time he only uses "car," "bus," "truck" and "go." And "touchdown"!
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My LO started saying more words around 16 months but her language explosion began at 20 months. She is 2 and she has a lot to say!
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19 months and has about 20-30 words. His receptive language picked up about 18 months and hr understands almost everything you say to him. In comparison hes a little slower in the verval dept comparedcto his receptative language but I'm not worried yet.
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LO is 16 months and has about 40-50 words, I would say in the last 2 weeks she's really started saying more words, but I don't think it's the explosion yet! She's definetely repeating and learning that way. (not good for car rides when this momma has some road rage and like to name call
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LO just turned 20 months and I'm still waiting for the language explosion. Her receptive language is off the charts - she follows two and three step directions and learns new words after hearing them only a couple of times, but from the expressive side of things, she has maybe five words if I'm really stretching it. She talks all day long - not babbling but properly speaking a language of her own devising, but there are just not many discernible words. Our pedi isn't worried and thinks she's just stubborn, but we'll re-evaluate at 2.
Interestingly, one of the reasons our pedi isn't worried is because kids pick up language more from their peers than adults. DD doesn't go to daycare or play group. and most of the kids we see regularly are a few years older. We unfortunately live in an area without much going on for young toddlers so most of DD's exposure to language is from other adults. Ah well. I'm not worried.
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@looch: It's my good friend who is a mega-lurker but refuses to post. I'm sure she saw this, so if she reaches a point of concern as the months pass (still too early to panic for her), I am sure she'll see your sweet offer to wall you for more info. Thanks so much.
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LO just turned 2, I am guessing around 150 words in a mix of 2 languages?
We have always been delayed compare to our peers, so when a language explosion happens it doesn't feel like an explosion because other kids are doing that a year ago (I am serious!). I would say our real language explosion is around now. He becomes obsessed in counting from 1-20 in Cantonese and I only started teaching him to do that a few weeks ago.
We have issues with pronunciation so I am seeking language specialist help now.
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My LO is 17 months old and I just wrote down 66 words that she says sort of regularly. However, they aren't all easily understood by outsiders. I think there are more but I can't think of them right now. And there are some that she has said sometimes but not that often so I'm not sure if I should count them or not. I feel like right after she turned one she started learning words all the time. Not sure if that is the "language explosion." She knows many more receptive words and generally strings together two words. (We count phrases like "all done milk" as two words because she knows "all done" together.)
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@Mrs. Confetti: I'm starting to get pretty concerned when it comes to talking (especially reading these responses). She just turned 14 months and has ZERO words
She understands and follows commands, babbles, points things out (everything is "dah!") and is super engaging with us, but she makes no effort to try and talk or mimic our speech. Figure we'll discuss it at her 15 month appt. Still worried though 
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My son has abou 18 words right now and a bunch of signs. He seems to prefer to say No more than anything else these days though and rarely uses his words otherwise. He signs a lot and points. I am havin him evaluated by EI next month , wa originally supposed to be this month but my husband begged me to wait till he was 18 months and give him a chance to catch up I'd he needed to. He is one of those gray area children. I figured I'd rather have someone work with him and give him a leg up if he needs it than always wonder and potentially see him get further behind if there is a delay.
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@Mrs. Deer: fifteen months is still pretty young. I would give her a few more months. Especially if she babbles with intent and interacts a lot as you said. I saw a lot of improvements from my son between 15 and 17 months
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DS's language explosion was at 18 months. He's now three but has been talking like a real human since about 26 months.
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I think C is a slightly late talker, I think. She jibber-jabbers a lot but I just noticed a true "explosion" at 22 months. She's rapidly picking up words now.
Honestly, I'm not too worried about it. She has a very high comprehension rate, she just does things in her own time. She was the same with walking.
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DS1 had a language explosion at 19 months. Prior to that he only had a list of 10 words that he used regularly. At that point he understood us very well but lacked the words to communicate with us. He never imitated our sounds and was more of an observer. Confidence was also a big factor. He would only attempt to say a word if he knew that he could say it properly. At 2.5 years old he is a talking machine. "Why, mommy? Why?"
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DS is 19 mos and has about 15-20 words, so we haven't actually hit the language explosion yet. I'm not at all worried b/c he talks incessantly, just not real words, and his receptive language is great. @Ree723: it sounds like our LO's are very much alike!
@lovehoneybee: what tips did your ped give on increasing vocabulary?
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DS is 16 months and has like 2 words he uses consistently. I think we may be at the beginning of a language explosion. He is starting to parrot us a lot lately. And I've heard him say new words a lot but he just says them once. I'm not worried at this point.
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DS is almost 17 months and I would say he has about 30+ words. He really started jabbering around 15.5-16 months and will repeat almost anything we ask him to!
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No explosions yet at 20 months. She probably has 40 words and that includes animal sounds, which she uses in place of the animal name. Like @Ree723: she babbles all day long and has a language all to herself. I know they will come because I know they're in there and she understands things I tell her to do.
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No idea how many words, but she's understood and followed directions since 12 months, identified and named all the letters, colors, and counted to 10 by 18 months, and now at 22 months holds full conversations. There's been a huge explosion in the past month of using articles between words in her sentences.
J only has two words and is almost 17 months. We've known for many months that he'd have verbal delays due to his hypotonia and a few other things, so I'm sure we'll have to start speech therapy at 18 months (EI doesn't allow before that), but maybe he'll surprise me and start talking up at storm in the next month. Oh and J is very non-stop on the go all the time and his physical therapist has said that because he is so focused on that, (walking, running, etc.) that could be a part of why he isn't trying to talk much. Our sons are similar I think! I'm glad to hear your son caught up!
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She understands and follows commands, babbles, points things out (everything is "dah!") and is super engaging with us, but she makes no effort to try and talk or mimic our speech. Figure we'll discuss it at her 15 month appt. Still worried though 
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