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Speech delay?

Aneka

Aneka

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I apologize for turning into a power poster, I'm currently in the awkward in between stage of rearranging my life and sorting out what the heck is wrong with me.

I remember next to nothing about my early childhood (which probably is rather usual) and had a conversation with my mother recently. She said that I started walking early at 9 months, but started talking way later (She doesn't quite remember).I only used two-words phrases until 5 years of age. My mother felt like I 'didn't want to share my thoughts with the world and only talked to get what I needed.'
 
I'm not sure how quickly you're supposed to start using complete sentences... I vaguely remember my mom trying to get me to use words (I knew words, I just didn't want to USE them) to tell her what I wanted. There was one time I was doing something...making noises and pounding on the refrigerator I think...and mom knew what I wanted but she wouldn't get it for me until I told her (she knew I could). Finally after much insistence that I tell her what it was that I wanted I screamed JUICE!!!!! (Totally ticked off at this point.) Maybe I don't remember that, maybe I remember her telling me about it later. Either way, it's clear that I could speak before I regularly did.

I also had a speech impediment - I couldn't pronounce the "or" diphthong - it came out like "ow". So "quarter" would come out like "cowter" and "horse" would be "house", "more" would be "mow" etc. This persisted into I think 2nd or 3rd grade and then mysteriously disappeared overnight and no one is quite sure what happened.
 
Birth to 5 months

  • Coos

  • Vocalizes pleasure and displeasure sounds differently (laughs, giggles, cries, or fusses)

  • Makes noise when talked to
6 to 11 months

  • Understands "no-no"

  • Babbles (says "ba-ba-ba")

  • Says "ma-ma" or "da-da" without meaning

  • Tries to communicate by actions or gestures

  • Tries to repeat your sounds

  • Says first word
12 to 17 months

  • Answers simple questions nonverbally

  • Says 2 to 3 words to label a person or object (pronunciation may not be clear)

  • Tries to imitate simple words

  • Vocabulary of four to 6 words
18 to 23 months

  • Vocabulary of 50 words, pronunciation is often unclear

  • Asks for common foods by name

  • Makes animal sounds, such as "moo"

  • Starting to combine words, such as "more milk"

  • Begins to use pronouns, such as "mine"

  • Uses 2-word phrases
2 to 3 years

  • Knows some spatial concepts, such as "in" or "on"

  • Knows pronouns, such as "you," "me" or "her"

  • Knows descriptive words, such as "big" or "happy"

  • Uses 3-word sentences

  • Speech is becoming more accurate, but may still leave off ending sounds. Strangers may not be able to understand much of what is said.

  • Answers simple questions

  • Begins to use more pronouns, such as "you" or "I"

  • Uses question inflection to ask for something, such as "my ball?"

  • Begins to use plurals, such as "shoes" or "socks" and regular past tense verbs, such as "jumped"
3 to 4 years

  • Groups objects, such as foods or clothes

  • Identifies colors

  • Uses most speech sounds, but may distort some of the more difficult sounds, such as l, r, s, sh, ch, y, v, z, th. These sounds may not be fully mastered until age 7 or 8.

  • Uses consonants in the beginning, middle, and ends of words. Some of the more difficult consonants may be distorted, but attempts to say them

  • Strangers are able to understand much of what is said

  • Able to describe the use of objects, such as "fork" or "car"

  • Has fun with language; enjoys poems and recognizes language absurdities, such as, "Is that an elephant on your head?"

  • Expresses ideas and feelings rather than just talking about the world around him or her

  • Uses verbs that end in "ing," such as "walking" or "talking"

  • Answers simple questions, such as "What do you do when you are hungry?"

  • Repeats sentences
4 to 5 years

  • Understands spatial concepts, such as "behind" or "next to"

  • Understands complex questions

  • Speech is understandable, but makes mistakes pronouncing long, difficult, or complex words, such as "hippopotamus"

  • Uses some irregular past tense verbs, such as "ran" or "fell"

  • Describes how to do things, such as painting a picture

  • Lists items that belong in a category, such as animals or vehicles

  • Answers "why" questions
5 years

  • Understands time sequences (for example, what happened first, second, or third)

  • Carries out a series of 3 directions

  • Understands rhyming

  • Engages in conversation

  • Sentences can be 8 or more words in length

  • Uses compound and complex sentences

  • Describes objects

  • Uses imagination to create stories
    default - Stanford Children's Health

Language development: Speech milestones for babies

Speech and Language Developmental Milestones
 
I was slow to walk and talk. When I did talk, I had a speech impediment. That was eventually "fixed" by a school appointed therapist. I still remember that therapy. It took place in a broom closet! :)

I was also born with a hearing defect. The defect was later found to be neurological instead of inner ear anatomy.
 
Glad you are posting away! It makes the forum fun when people power post :)

I had no speech delay. Walked early, too. Was precocious, actually, with language and lit. But I never really learned to feed myself. That was my delay and never rectified itself. Food=Monstrous nightmare.
 
I thought my daughter was speaking gibberish. However, later l listened to her cute little voice in videos and l could understand what she was saying. It just sorta all ran together at age 2.
 
I too didn't really begin to speak in sentences until late four to five years of age.

I guess I just really didn't have anything to say at the time. ;)
 
OkRad said:
Glad you are posting away! It makes the forum fun when people power post :)

I had no speech delay. Walked early, too. Was precocious, actually, with language and lit. But I never really learned to feed myself. That was my delay and never rectified itself. Food=Monstrous nightmare.
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Any further with food issues I've got mine as well
 
Communication in order to get needs met starts from the day we land on the planet (birth day)

Learning and repeating our first language takes longer.
Incredible amount of variables involved to dictate age and stage of appearance of 'talking' - to mean asking for, stating fact, commenting and commentary.

'Commentary' I mention to describe the speech used to direct focus.
'Outer speech'
If you've ever watched a toddler play with toys cars and talk to themselves while doing so; ..." Brumm brumm, round the corner, up a hill, brumm brumm, fast, down the hill, crash! oh no!..."
This speech isn't directed at anyone and isn't used for satisfying needs.
It's more 'thinking out loud'. A way of staying focused.

In the absence of words other reliable forms of communication develop to get needs met.

I think children talk when they're ready to talk. They listen a lot first.
 
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