Speech at 15 months?

[andrewsgal]

So obviously it's been years since I had a toddler. DD talked so early it was freakish. I can't remember DS 1.

DS 2 has great receptive language (can follow two step commands), points, waves, appropriate play. He only has 6 real words (this, that, Jack Jack, Dada, trash and milk).

Does this sound okay? Of course I googled and you know every fifteen month old in the Internet is speaking in full sentence and knows their letters (sarcasm) so I need real opinions.

[Deleted]

Sounds great actually! At 15 months, ds could only say mama and dada and go go. Now he's 2 and talking up a storm . Also our pedi said at that age he looks at receptive stuff too so your ds sounds great.

[abs]

Sounds normal. If he understands you and is pointing then that is the most important thing. As long as he adds to his vocabulary and doesn't regress/lose words he sounds 100% on track to me!

[mamaalysson]

Ditto that receptive language was more telling than actual words. DS had no words at 15 months, but seemed to understand everything we said to him. At 21 months he only had nine words (including animal sounds and signs), and was evaluated for speech services. He's 27 months now and chatters all day and night.

[goillini823]

Sounds right. DS was evaluated at 16 months cause he had zero words. The therapist told me they expect between 3-5 words at 15 months and about 10 at 18 months.

[minismama]

DS is almost 15 months and says mama, dada, uh oh, and nana (Juliana).

[auroraloo]

6 is the benchmark for 18 months, if I remember correctly. DS had only 2-3 words at 18 months and barely qualified for SLP.

[usm]

I think he is good.


DS1 had 2 words at 15 months that he rarely used. He didn't make sounds or babble at all and his receptive language was great, if you were saying something he wanted to hear.

He was evaled and started speech at 18 months. He really only qualified because of his lack of interest in speaking and we primarily focused on teaching him signs and teaching me to stop reading his nonverbal cues. He didn't say a 3 word sentence until 2.5 and didn't become chatty until 4. He just didn't have a desire or need to speak.

[Deleted]

I remember at DS's 18m check-up, the pedi wanted him to have between 10 and 15 words (spoken and signed). Your DS sounds on track.

[andrewsgal]

Thanks ladies. Interesting even with the third the nervous is he okay is still there.

[rosesandpetals]

iirc, they're supposed to have 2 words by 12 months. Also, words not said properly but said the same way consistently and with meaning (ie, "sketti" instead of "spaghetti") count as words.

There is a huge language boom around 18 months. His vocabulary will probably explode in a couple months.

[lala]

I think he's good, too.

Jack is a few weeks younger and doesn't have that much yet. But receptive is good. He points, claps, waves bye, & can sign more & milk. He only says Hi, tweet (for a bird) and maybe this. Oh and night night.

[Kcthepouchh8r]

Minimum is 3 words so he sounds right on track.

[Kcthepouchh8r]

Jun 25, 2015 18:00:52 GMT -5 auroraloo said:

6 is the benchmark for 18 months, if I remember correctly. DS had only 2-3 words at 18 months and barely qualified for SLP.

Thats crazy. Both my kids had more words at that age and qualified for speech twice a week for 60 minutes-far from barely qualifying. Crazy how different EI is elsewhere.

[dizzycooks]

I think you're good. 16 mo here and all I've got is dada, mama and a-done. And next to zero response when I ask her to do something. I'm watching. I really don't think an eval can hurt but we have great ei in our state so I plan on using it if I need to trust your gut, but he seems normal to me ☺️

[nicolewi]

TOTALLY fine.

[quesyrah]

DD had zero words at 15 months. She had 10-15 signs and babbled, pointed and had good receptive language so the pedi wasn't worried.

She'll be 2 next week and within the last 2 months she's had a huge language explosion and suddenly never shuts up lol

[auroraloo]

Jun 25, 2015 21:13:08 GMT -5 Kcthepouchh8r said:

Jun 25, 2015 18:00:52 GMT -5 auroraloo said:

6 is the benchmark for 18 months, if I remember correctly. DS had only 2-3 words at 18 months and barely qualified for SLP.

Thats crazy. Both my kids had more words at that age and qualified for speech twice a week for 60 minutes-far from barely qualifying. Crazy how different EI is elsewhere.

I could be way wrong on the benchmark, I simply cannot remember for some reason. 

[abs]

Jun 26, 2015 7:41:32 GMT -5 auroraloo said:

Jun 25, 2015 21:13:08 GMT -5 Kcthepouchh8r said:

Thats crazy. Both my kids had more words at that age and qualified for speech twice a week for 60 minutes-far from barely qualifying. Crazy how different EI is elsewhere.

I could be way wrong on the benchmark, I simply cannot remember for some reason. 

The benchmark here was less than 10 words at 2 to qualify for EI.  10! So my kid had 11 and we didn't qualify. Thank goodness for good insurance and private therapy. Never, ever move to Houston if you need to access early intervention services.

[auroraloo]

Jun 26, 2015 7:45:23 GMT -5 abs said:

Jun 26, 2015 7:41:32 GMT -5 auroraloo said:

I could be way wrong on the benchmark, I simply cannot remember for some reason. 

The benchmark here was less than 10 words at 2 to qualify for EI.  10! So my kid had 11 and we didn't qualify. Thank goodness for good insurance and private therapy. Never, ever move to Houston if you need to access early intervention services.

Yeah, through conversations with AG, I realize how low TX EI is.    

[Kcthepouchh8r]

Jun 26, 2015 7:41:32 GMT -5 auroraloo said:

Jun 25, 2015 21:13:08 GMT -5 Kcthepouchh8r said:

Thats crazy. Both my kids had more words at that age and qualified for speech twice a week for 60 minutes-far from barely qualifying. Crazy how different EI is elsewhere.

I could be way wrong on the benchmark, I simply cannot remember for some reason. 

You weren't too far off from what I was told for 18 months (minimum 10). It's the barely qualifying statement that's surprising. You probably are remembering correctly. Qualifying for EI varies greatly as I've learned on the bump.

[mamaalysson]

Jun 26, 2015 9:16:02 GMT -5 Kcthepouchh8r said:

Jun 26, 2015 7:41:32 GMT -5 auroraloo said:

I could be way wrong on the benchmark, I simply cannot remember for some reason. 

You weren't too far off from what I was told for 18 months (minimum 10). It's the barely qualifying statement that's surprising. You probably are remembering correctly. Qualifying for EI varies greatly as I've learned on the bump.

Definitely true. Like I said, DS had 9 words when he was evaluated at 21 months and he did not qualify. They identified him as having a communicative delay (he has since more than caught up), but his receptive language skills were strong, so they were unconcerned. They said that he was doing all the things he needed to be doing to pick up language, and expected that he would have a burst of language development around 2. They were right. And to their credit, even though he didn't qualify for services, he didn't drop off their radar. They have called twice to check-in since our evaluation and make sure that he was indeed picking up more language.

[Katiedid]

He sounds right on target! My DS didn't have many words at 15 months (only 2) but like your DS had good receptive language. He's since added quite a few words and is thriving. Don't worry!

[cna]

That sounds good to me as long as his receptive language is on track. It has been such a long time but I think I remember someone saying something about not worrying so much about the number of words before 18 months as long as they have some words and appear to understand what you are saying to them. I could be wrong though, my memory sucks.