Speech delay ?

Hey mama! I would say just to take her to the doctor or get an evaluation and see what they say. My son is 3 1/2 and we have gone to the doctor every 6 months since he was a baby. He doesn’t say a lot at all and we got an autism evaluation each time and they tested him a 1 Out of 9 ( very low) but his speech wasn’t developing so I went the academic route and asked them to do an evaluation and right away he was diagnosed as autistic. Coming to find out, he was never given the actual testing for autism just a screening with the pediatrician.As a parent we don’t know and understand this, we don’t know the ins and outs. I’m certainly not saying that’s your daughter by any means but everyone’s journey is so so so different that you don’t want to listen to someone’s experience and take their word for gold and then find out years later your child actually was doing fine or actually needed more focus in a certain area. She is very young still, and I would say just to advocate for her. 💜

You know what I’m learning, my daughter just shy of 17 months doesn’t speak very much. She can communicate certainly, nodding, shaking her head, pointing, shows she understands what is being said etc. that being said, she doesn’t speak very much. She will make animal sounds and we will ask her to repeat the word but she’s very much her own person and will do what she wants to do. I’ve also noticed by her going to nursery that this is relatively normal amongst her peers. I do feel as though we expect too much of children.

It won’t hurt to speak to your GP with relation to your child’s specific needs but don’t drive yourself nuts over it, your daughter is communicating and she is understanding what is being said, the vocabulary will follow I’m sure.

My little girl is 17 months, very end of November baby and only says daddy with intent. Everything else is babble and she’s only done that for a couple of months. She won’t copy sounds back to us and instead just laughs or does a different sound completely but she understands what we’re saying really well.

I’ve done the 18 months ages and stages q&a and she’s on target for everything, including communication though she doesn’t say anything.

As someone else has said I think we expect too much of children, my little girl probably does say things but I’m a tough crowd and if it’s not clear and consistent I don’t count it. My dad is convinced she says bye bye grandad but I’m like, does she though?! Cos I just hear babble.

I’m convinced she’s just going to be one of those children that wakes up one morning and starts talking. She has an ent referral because she has ear infections and lack of words but truth be told I’m not that worried about it and I’m sure it’ll come 💖

Thank you for your support everyone! I was actually thinking to speak to the health visitor, or should I speak to the GP?
She is also bilingual, we speak our language at home but outside she is also hearing English from us and our friends.
She does know hello and bybye in English among other words like animals, flowers .
Sometimes she says a word but only once and never again . Although she understands everything and does everything we ask her to do pretty much , ex to close the door , bring things to us . She seems fine from this perspective but i am just worried about her speech. 🥹🥹🥹