My daughter is 31 months and doesn’t say many words (about 15 at the most). She babbles a lot and points or pulls you by the finger and takes you to what she wants. She seems to have great comprehension; you can tell her to go get her pink shoes, for example, and she will do this. Could something be …
Q&A: 2 1/2 Year Old Not Talking A Lot
My daughter is almost 2 1/2 and she isn’t speaking very much. When you ask her questions, she will answer with head nods or pointing but she will rarely speak. She says words such as ma, da, and she will make some animal noises but she won’t mimmic or repeat anything. If she asks for something, she points, or gets …
Q&A: 21 Month Old Not Pronouncing Words
My son just turned 21 months. He is very active and “speaks” a lot with a wide variety of sounds but is not clearly pronouncing words other than “no” and “uh-oh”. He can communicate what he wants through pointing and grunting but again his lack of vocabulary has me worried. My niece is 3 months older than him and is …
Q&A: My 2 Year Old Has Muffled Speech
I have a 2.5 year old son who has a great vocabulary, appears to be meeting all the appropriate milestones, but has muffled speech. I understand 95% of what he says. I think a stranger may understand 75% of what he says. He had chronic ear infections as an infant and had tubes put in at 9 months. We just …
Q&A: 9 Month Old Not Making Consonant Sounds
My 9 month old daughter is not yet making any consonant sounds. Is this cause for concern, or still too early to worry? I am not that concerned at age 9 months if you are not hearing a lot of consonant-vowel combinations yet, although many babies do start to form single syllable consonant-vowels such as “ba”, “ma” or “na” in …
Q&A: 3 Month Old Not Cooing – Should Hearing be Tested?
My daughter is 12 weeks old. She does not really coo. She makes a few noises here and there throughout the day, but doesn’t really respond when I try to get her to make more. Her doctor said he is not concerned right now, but if she isn’t cooing by her 4 month visit, we should have her hearing tested. …
Q&A: 33 Month Old Not Talking in Phrases
My son is 33 months and I have noticed he isn’t speaking as much as children his age and younger. He still babbles a lot. He says around 60 words and 7 2-3 word phrases. Most words he will only say once, maybe twice and then doesn’t say them again and you can’t get him to repeat words that you …
Q&A: 9 Month Old Not Babbling
My 9 1/2 month old does not babble at all. I am a speech therapist myself (I treat adults) and I am concerned. I read to her daily and sing songs and play pat a cake, itsy spider, etc., as well as say mama dada baba during diaper changes for face-to-face time. She is almost crawling and is just starting …
Q&A: 16 Month Old Not Speaking in Bilingual Household
Our daughter is 16 months old, but does not speak much. She can make repetitive syllables, says papa really well, seldom says mama, and makes up words, but are not really understandable. Is this something we need to be worried about? We are Asians (Filipinos) and we talk to her in our dialect combined with English words. I also read …
Q&A: Toddler Learning English and Arabic Not Speaking
My son is 2 years and 10 months, and we’ve been living in Saudi Arabia since he was 14 months. Saudi Arabia is a closed off segregated country where there isn’t much interaction or activity to be done. My son is also raised bilingual: equal amounts of English and Arabic. He’s an only child so far and walked at 9 …