Speech

Yes, they do. X

My daughter has been talking for a long time and she is still learning how to pronounce some words correctly. She has very recently been able to say balloon instead of boon and clock instead of cock haha, this one always made us laugh 😂 x

As long as they have consistent meaning they count as words. My boy can't make the f sound.

Yes absolutely. I find this guide is quite useful.

https://speechandlanguage.org.uk/help-for-families/ages-and-stages/18-24-months/

My son chats my eat off all day and loves to learn new words and it's so funny we teach him to pronounce words, he's has trouble with K's and C's, so my sister Katie is Datie and cat is Dat, etc
He's just learnt his colour and the way he say purple is the cutest!
As long as you understand was she is saying and what the word means it's words

Yes it does, as long as it’s always the same “sound” if it makes sense. So if “pi” is always “pink” and she associate it with actual pink colour, or I dunno “nack” is for “snack” and she says it when she wants/sees a snack then it’s counted as a word :)

this article is really helpful thank you!