Reassurance please

I rang the health visitor about a month ago for this same thing. After telling her everything she could do and talking it through she explained there were two parts to communication, my daughter was really advanced in one side (pointing, engaging, responding, following commands) but not verbally which was the other side.
Shed gone from saying some words to basically nothing.

HV wasnt concerned at all but we took steps to just help, tv became a no-no (we didnt watch alot anyway but it was there and a distraction). Started constantly reading and repeating animal sounds at every chance we got, didnt ask her to repeat just kept doing it.. a month on shes making loads of animal sounds, shes saying more and more words and come on leaps and bounds.

I was worried too but hv told me that if she hadn't progressed by the 2yr check thays when they would look to refer for speech therapy etc.

Hope this helps xx

Please do not worry, my son was exactly the same along with 2 other boys in our circle. Speech is one of those milestones that has a very wide range of normal. You could have toddlers speaking full sentences at 18 months and some not saying a single word.

I was constantly worried about my son and then a month before his second birthday he suddenly started saying new words every day. By the time he had his 2 year check up he was completely average.

Once he turns 2 you can contact your HV to do the 2 year review and if they are worried they can help with speech therapy. I wouldn't worry until then x

Don’t worry my son is 23 months and doesn’t speak as much as my nieces did. Nursery and my sister who is a teacher says he is ok.

I have 3 year old twins who are both on the pathway for autism diagnosis.

The fact that he has gestures is very reassuring and following commands is great!

My twin girl is 3 and still doesn’t do that but she is also non verbal and never said a word.

My son did all those things and was just a late talker.. his speech exploded around his 3rd birthday and now he doesn’t shut up to be honest 😂

If he’s making gestures and following commands I wouldn’t worry too much

Mine was exactly the same he’s 3 in Feb and the last 6/8 weeks he’s gone from the odd word to nearly forming sentences it’s mental how quickly it came on I think all just come at their own pace and that’s why the health visitor review isn’t until they are 2 and half because a lot of development happens when they are two xx

Thank you everyone so much for the messages, I feel sooooo much better now! Will also try the no tv and reading to him more (not that he gets much tv anyway) xx

I had to have speech therapy when I as 3. Im completely "normal" 😂🤪 I was just described as lazy 😂