Do you expect a 15 month old child to try and communicate?

candygirl

Gingham_Ribbon wrote: »

The OP didn't say she was interfering in ANY way. She said she had different ideas to her daughter that was all. There's no reason to assume that she's trying to lay down some sort of granny law!

yea as if us nanas do this:whistle::whistle::whistle::whistle::whistle:
Sits in a corner repeating "I must not interfere , I must not interfere":rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

melb

my son didn't really start speaking "properly" until he was about 2 and a half! I remember the health visitor saying he will suddenly start speaking in whole sentences and that was exactly what he did! there is an old story somewhere about somebody who didn't speak for however many years and his first words were something like "this soup is too salty" and his mother saying wow why haven't you spoken till now? and him replying "because it has always been fine up till now!"

Gingham_Ribbon

melb wrote: »

my son didn't really start speaking "properly" until he was about 2 and a half! I remember the health visitor saying he will suddenly start speaking in whole sentences and that was exactly what he did! there is an old story somewhere about somebody who didn't speak for however many years and his first words were something like "this soup is too salty" and his mother saying wow why haven't you spoken till now? and him replying "because it has always been fine up till now!"

I've a feeling that story is said about Einstein?

andrealm

Just looked at my DD's Red Book and it says
Speech, at 15 months
"Makes lots of speechlike sounds. Uses 2-6 recognisable words meaningfully, e.g "teddy" when seeing or wanting the teddy bear. Intensely curious about people, objects and events."

So he sounds completely normal for his age and I'm sure if people are talking to him and around him, his speech will develop over time.

mummy_Jay

He will develope in his own time. But maybe there are a few little things you can do to help that aren't really interfering, just good habits.

If you really want to help bring him on the best thing you can do is always speak clearly to him and use really words not baby-talk. If he manages a word make a big fuss of what a clever boy he is.

Personally I would be making sure that I always made a point of using please and thank you not just with him but with others infront of him. It never hurts to teach some good manners, especially by example, then hopefully when he's ready to talk he will use them too.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Hmmmm. The number of times I've heard the 'That child isn't right - he must be deaf/autistic/neglected/backwards' muttered in the shadows by grandparents. Usually followed in about 4 years' time by 'I knew he was special and super intelligent, but nobody believed me'.

Some kids say next to nothing. DD1 was unintelligible pretty much until she was 6. She walked at 8 months, was out of nappies at 9 months and knew to pick up a screwdriver and have a go at any screwheads visible in the house (not my idea of education, but hey, she'd been watching her father). I understood her, and she would sit on top of the chest freezer and wibble to me about her thoughts even when she was 2. Of course, I would repeat things correctly so she heard how they should be said without feeling corrected, but it sorted itself out in time.

DD2 came out yelling her displeasure. By the time she was a year old she was having full blown arguments, rather than the usual 'NO! WAAAAAA!' with her sister. She didn't walk until 13 months and only reliably toilet trained when 2 years and 9 months.

They are both gifted and talented. Both had a grandmother muttering about being backwards and needing special schools/a good slap.


Rather than making a huge fuss, how about making fun sounds? Baaaaaa, Mooooooo, Eeeeeeek Eeeeeeeek, so he learns to make different vowel sounds. Maybe by two, being a silly nanny that can't hear grunts very well could be gently introduced?

If he still has problems being understood at 3, nursery will be able to pick this up and help.

I think if you ask a lot of the parents of large families, they'll be able to tell you that they don't have little clones that develop all at the same time - they're different.

So try not to worry yet.

moneymakingmummy

I have a 15 month old who dosnt talk as well as my eldest did at that age, i think they tend to be lazy when they have an older sibling

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MERFE

I did everything by the book with my DD, my first so very precious child, talked to her alot, never had the telly on, did activites, played etc all day. She had speech delay, went to speech therapy and today is no different from any of the other children in reception, except she is still a very good writer. Drawing and colouring was pretty much all she ever wanted to do and still is.

My son on the otherhand was one who had his first word at 6 months, talked in sentences from a year. He will not need speech therapy despite watching many many hours of cbeebies and disney dvds. If he isnt talking he is singing, he does not stop. He can not write even an S let alone the rest of his name.

My point is all children are different and so long as they have family that care about them, nothing else really matters, they will learn different things at different rates, when they are ready for it. I dont think there is much you can do about it either way, I read all the books to help my daughters speech but TBH I think she is just a quiet child and it was a delay thing. All speech therapy did was catch her up a bit faster, she would have got there in the end, although DS was starting to copy some of her wrong words.

missjennipenni

Plans_all_plans wrote: »

I know kids develop at different rates (and that boys can be slower in developing than girls) but my daughter was talking in sentences by 18 months and was well on her way from 14 months onwards. Admittedly, she was quicker talking than other kids at playgroup and she had at least 2 adults with her at all times (me and my mum) so this will account for her good speech, but even so I would expect more than a handful of words by 15 months, even if they can't be understood by people outside the family.

Saying this though, I wouldn't interefere unless he got to 2.5 and could only grunt still as it will only cause problems for you!

My DD could talk in sentences by 15 months, my son did not have a single word at 15 months. Both are very bright, fantastic kids. They are ALL completely different, and also normal!