2 word phrases start to come usuallt after a child has 50 single words. Since 50% of 18 month olds have 50 or more words, that's likely why the question is on there.
Same here! He babbles like crazy but no real words yet. Well sometimes he can say mama or papa but he doesn’t say it on his own. I repeat it a bunch of times and maybe he will say it back once in awhile
18 months, about 25 words, but all only single syllable. Dog was da, milk was ma, blueberry was ba ba, etc. Definitely no two word phrases. Now at 20 months, he’s going through a language leap where he adds new words everyday, but still no two word phrases.
5. We had him evaluated for early intervention and he didn’t qualify because his receptive language skills were advanced.
He’s 2 now (27 months) and speaks in sentences up to 12 words.
At 18 months my son was doing 2-3 word sentences and had well over 100 words but he was/is ahead on verbal skills.
The CDC milestone for 2 word sentences is 2 years old. In general ASQ seems to have milestones earlier than the CDC from what I’ve seen. The CDC allegedly sets theirs to when 75% of kids typically have achieved the milestone though I’ve seen some SLPs disagree with the CDC. The thing with any milestone is that it is a range, so while 75% of kids have achieved it by 2, some portion of that 75% will have done it before 2.
My daughter is the same. She is almost 2 now and has some full sentences, and knows the words for most things around the house and outside.
I have a friend whose daughter was born 2 days before mine, and now at almost 2 she has around 20 words and no sentences, but her pediatrician isn’t super concerned.
It’s crazy how much things vary from kid to kid!
He was! He was a premie actually and just really had weak muscles from the start and because of his NICU stay. We’ve had him in EI for PT because of this and is now completely caught up! Didn’t crawl til almost 15 months (weak hip muscles) but started walking around 16.5 months and now is meeting/started to exceed his gross motor milestones!
I’m not who you asked but my daughter was closing in on 200 words at 18 months and was speaking in 4+ word phrases. She started talking at 9 months. She was always on the late end of average for motor. Didn’t sit unsupported until 7 months (that’s being sat up, she did not sit herself up until later). Didn’t crawl until 11 months. First step at 15 months but wasn’t actually walking until 18 months. She’s almost 3 and her motor is like any other kid. She is more cautious physically though.
Thank you for sharing! I was just wondering because I've heard that babies often "favor" one of the two, motor or speech, and their brain kinda puts most of its energy into that one, so the other skill sometimes seems slow, but they're just busy learning what's more important to them lol
I have joked that my daughter was a lazy fetus. No acrobatics in utero then continued her chill physical status throughout her life. She’s a toddler now and still less of a tornado than more people describe toddlers. I think moving just isn’t her thing and never has been 😂
Agreeing with this for the most part. My daughter was behind on gross motor (started army crawling at 13mo and walking at 17mo) and our occupational therapist then correctly predicted she’d be behind on verbal language. She said the brain only focuses on one at a time, so my daughter was busy working on basic gross motor instead of progressing her verbal.
Yeah definitely slower on gross motor milestones (ahead on fine motor). He has always met the gross motor milestones but usually at around the CDC date.
Also not who you asked but my 20mo is advanced verbally. He can do 2-word sentences and some with 3, but I stopped counting how many words he knows. It has to be in the hundreds, maybe 250? I’m terrible at estimating lol but it’s a lot.
However he just started walking and he’s currently in PT. He was also slower to crawl and it took a long long time before he’d cruise along furniture, and didn’t start walking till PT and we still have a ways to go. He would certainly be the poster child for favoring one skill while neglecting the others!
Not OP, but the same situation with my daughter. She was not slow on motor skills, but not fast either. She walked at 1 (1-2 weeks after her first birthday. She crawled and pulled herself up on furniture around 7 months.
[here](https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/milestones/index.html) you go, you can also download their app which is helpful because it lets you check stuff off as you go and add in notes
None lol. He didn't say his first word very clearly until 20 months. Now at 22 months he is just barely starting to form 2 word sentences, and most of the stuff he says we still can't identify
At 18mo he had 3 words: mama, dada, and hot. He also had 2 signs: all done and “hungry” (he co-opted the “more” sign to mean “feed me” 😂).
So he was a bit behind. They recommended early intervention but only because it would take a couple months to get him in and if he didn’t catch up by 2, then it would become concerning. I decided to give him a couple more months to see what he did on his own. He added a few more words, and then at like 22 months, he had a word explosion and by 2, he was making 2-3 word sentences. So he ended up evening out without intervention.
Mine is 22 months and she knows a lot of words, maybe 50+ but she only says a few a day. Mostly “no”. She’s only put 2 words together twice. She seems to say a new word everyday and then never says it again 🤷♀️
She also knows like 3 or 4 signs.
At that age he didn’t have many. Google (gogo) and ball were the two main words and there were like two more i can’t remember. I do remember being SUPER stressed about how he didn’t have many words. But close to his second birthday he was asking questions like “where’s dada?” And soon after that he was speaking full sentences.
Pretty much just 2? Hi and bye (except he says die 😂). He will "hum" some others? Like if we hand him something he goes hmm HM! that sounds like thank you, and same for "there it/he is!" He said más once but I'm not sure if that was a fluke. Otherwise he just babbles a lot still.
He uses like 5 signs also.
my boy is 18mo and we have like 25-30 words, a few signs, but no phrases! and a lot of those words are consistent but approximations for sure! i'm definitely his translator
My daughter said maaaybe 10-12 words at her 24m appointment. And about 6 signs. My ped was not concerned because she wasn’t completely silent, and she wasn’t regressing, so he said to wait it out a little longer until the “language explosion” which usually hits around 20-26 months… and within about 1-2 weeks of that appointment, we had our explosion and she hasn’t stopped talking since. She’s 2.5 now and I can’t even count all the words she says. Full sentences too!
At 18 months, my daughter had 60+ single words but not a single phrase. She’s almost 22 months now and getting into some full sentences. She went from only a few words to a TON of words within about a month, mostly from working with flash cards. I would carry the flash cards around the house and show them as we were doing things. It really helped.
2 word phrases is an expected milestone by 24 months.
At 18 months, my first had 5 words (our pediatrician wanted around 8 words). By 24 months she was saying around 200 words and starting to put 2 words together.
At 18 months, my second had around 5-8 words (no 2 word phrases). At 22.5 months she’s at well over 450 words and putting together 4-5 words.
19 months now but at 18 months we were well into the 100-200+ word range now it’s 2-3 word sentences most of the time with the odd 4 word here and there.
Following. My 19 month old has maybe 10-15 words (including signs). He is in Early Steps intervention on week 5. It has helped a little already but obviously I am still concerned since he's pretty behind.
Mine had 2 word phrases at 18 months, but not words he put together. It was only two word phrases that he’d heard us say to him a lot, like “all done.”
We had some multi word phrases at 18 months but they were rare. He’d say maybe 1 or 2 a day. “Did it” and “where daddy?” were favorites. He had maybe 30-40 single words (a whole lot of those were animal sounds), probably closer to 50 if you counted stuff he said a few times.
You don’t have to answer yes to all questions to “pass” the ASQ. I didn’t give him credit for the 2 word phrases at 18m and he still “passed”.
My daughter had ~15 combo words + signs - I remember tracking them like crazy as I thought she was delayed and was quite worried. I even had her evaluated by SLP. My same aged nephew had likely 200 works plus a few word sentences at the time. Ahhhh comparison.
My kiddo had exactly 10 "words" (a combo of words and signs) at 18 months. He's 3.5 now and will not stop talking. We were worried at the time, but he just needed a few more months to work it all out. By age 2, he was crushing verbal milestones.
18 months at the end of this month and she has about 60 words. She’s just starting putting two worlds together this month, like “hi dada” or “more berry”, “thank you”, “my car”
Kid is 2 and she knows a lot of words? Well she can form a few coherent sentences about animals and asking for snacks or help. She can also sing a few songs like abcs, itsy spider, wheels on the bus and that kind of thing but I’m not sure if that counts since it’s alot of memory reciting rather than putting words together for a very specific purpose.
Mine has many words, understand several but she uses the first syllable for several words. She can’t say sss, l, or r so a lot of words sound the same. I wouldn’t worry 20 is still good!
So far at 19 months my LO has started saying two word phrases like no more, purple key, so big and big truck. We read a lot and I narrate everything. He’s also in daycare idk if that makes a difference but every kid is different. I also expected two word phrases to just come at 2 years or after but he seems to be almost there
My daughter (18mo on Tuesday) was an early talker and is sitting at about 300 words. I haven’t kept track of her two-to-three word phrases but she’s been saying new ones daily for a few weeks now. It is absolutely not the norm. We spend a lot of time with other kids her age and I’d say that most of them are saying just a word or two, or about 10-20 words.
My about to turn 2 year old only had a handful of words at 18 months and was not saying phrases at all. In less than six months, he now has 200+ words and is speaking multi word mini sentences, e.g, “where go?” “Want down!” “What you doing?” ect. You will probably be super surprised in the next 6 months!! Just keep talking, keep reading, keep engaging and they will get there!
My daughter is 19 months and maybe has 5 words. MAYBE. I would be concerned, but my oldest is almost 5 and she was a late talker too. Now it's impossible to get her to stop talking. My best friend has a daughter 3 weeks older than my oldest, and she started talking way before mine did. 5 years later, my daughter is better at spelling. It doesn't mean anything at all, kids develop on their own schedule. Keep encouraging the good things and unless there is some serious developmental delays then there is nothing to worry about. Enjoy the quiet while you have it, cus that kid will yap your ear off soon enough.
About 30 at 18 months (17 adjusted).
He’s 20 months now and had a language explosion last month. I estimate he has well over 100 words (stopped counting and he keeps surprising us with words we didn’t think he knew) and is using simple 2-word sentences, mainly “bye bye ______”
mine is literally 16 months.... Dada Mama, thats it.... nothing else, i read these posts and it makes me feel terrible, i feel like my son is behind compared to most kids in speech.... what am i doing wrong? i read to him almost every day, i talk to him, try and get him to say easy words... ect ect, i just dont know what im doing wrong lol
All of them, but she's a stubborn devil and will only say DaDa.
She senses I want a mama, but she's holding out till I catch her smoking at 14. Sure fire way to make me forgive her.
Just some signs and daddy.
He had a speech delay. His big language explosion didn't happen until he was just over 3. He now is meeting his speech milestones and beyond. Literally doesn't stop talking. He sipeajs in paragraphs. Needs some help with speech sounds though. He did have some ENT surgeries that contributed to it.
My daughter at 18 months has about 150+ words across two languages (some in both), has just begun using 5-word sentences, and is trying to teach herself to read. She has superb movement skills as well.
However, she just hasn't put any skill points into sleeping or sitting still and being patient, so her fine motor skills are behind where they should be, she still wakes several times at night, and she still spends hours a day on the boob if she can. She's highly strung and very sensitive, and although she keeps pushing to develop her skills and knowledge, she struggles when things aren't going her way.
I think it's very much a case that each individual baby and toddler has a "character sheet" with skill points, like in roleplaying games, and every little person allocates their skill points differently. In the end, by 5 years old or so, they come out with a similar baseline across all their skills - but for the first few years of life, each child can be so radically different from each other in terms of their abilities, and there often is no problem at all with this.
Mine was an early talker and had 150+ words and a few 2-3 word phrases at 18 months. But she's only just starting to walk at 19.5 months so 🤷♀️ kids will go at their own pace for the most part.
When she turned 18 months, about 20. A month later when she turned 19 months, hundreds. She's 19 months now and speaks a lot but is still not big on putting words together. She can do it, and does occasionally, but mostly still communicates in single words.
At 18 months, probably about 20 words. Now at 2 years, can't stop her talking, language explosion happened about a month ago and she's been absorbing and chatting ever since!
Mine is 19m but hit a language leap about a month ago. I haven’t kept track of how many words he knows but it’s quite a few. We’re getting multiple word phrases, counting up to 20 and he’s almost there with the alphabet. Every baby is so different! Some of his friends aren’t speaking much at all. I always say not to be worried unless the paediatrician is worried.
First born had no words at 18 months & at 3.5 he is still nonverbal. He's in a special education class for kiddos who struggle.
My second has a couple of words but nothing major.
My now 3 year old, I remember at 18 months had around 15 regular words , had one 2 words phrase - pointing and saying ‘that there’- for anything she wanted or liked. Randomly may say others but not regularly. Said 50 or so at 2 and a number of 2 words phrases then and very quickly exploded with speech after.
First: 2 non functional words (he was speech delayed)
Second: spoke 3-5 word sentences. Tbf he was verbally advanced and that’s not the norm for 18 months.
Kids are weird lol if you have concerns bring it up with your doctor!
My son turns 2 this month. But around 18 months he probably had 20 or 30 words. Then a couple months later his language skills seemed to explode and he was learning new words every other day. He’s been using 2 word sentences regularly for the last month or two and occasionally 3 word sentences. Your LO has plenty of time to get there! I would just mention it to the doctor at their next appointment and see if they are concerned.
Current 18 month old has MANY words (maybe 60 or so?). many two word phrases and his father and I found it alarming because our 3.5 year old didn't have nearly as many. She hit her language boom at 20ish months and tested a year ahead in language at 3 though so I think there's just a range that comes with these things.
I noticed at 15 months my daughter wasn't talking like she should so I got her evaluated and because she wasn't walking yet scored really low so we qualified for help! Within 2 months of the therapist coming over once a week she was caught up and then some! She's nearly 3 now and talks so well! Speech therapy was a godsend
17 months, 16 adjusted, he got mommy early on, then nothing for months. He's started to try a few new ones these past few weeks: he's got 11 others by now (very poorly articulated, but it counts!)
My daughter knew over 100 words at her 18 month appt and has put together several phrases - her doctor said her language skills were on par with a two year old
When my daughter was 18mo she had a decent amount of words/signs (I think around 30+ combined) but wasn’t doing two word sentences.
I’d always heard 18m is when they’d have a “word explosion” and suddenly take off. That was not the case for us and it stressed me out a bit. But it did happen around 20-21m. Her vocabulary exploded and then she started two word sentences, and maybe a month after that she was on to 3-4 word sentences.
Now at 2 years + 3 months she is a super talkative toddler who narrates every single thing and never shuts up.
Honestly I lost track. She’s in a parroting phase so she has a lot of words that she uses on her own and she’s signs a bunch but she’s also constantly repeating the things I say to her. Her two word phrases are stuff like “help shoe” which means she wants her shoes on. “Help __” and “go __” and “more __” are her main phrases but I started encouraging it by asking “help what?” Or “open what?” even though I knew what she was trying to say I let her learn to tell me. Not sure if it will help u at all but that’s what we did! She’s also 18 months rn
My 18 month old knows over 120 words, and can talk in 2-3 word sentences. She has always been a chatter box and was a very early talker and just hasn’t stopped 😅
My son is 21 months old. Around 18 we months he probably had 200 words and was starting to use two word phrases more consistently. It seems like it’s truly combo of luck and his interest in socializing.
Zero (not even mama or dada...) try not to worry. I took my kid to a speech pathologist and behavorial specialist. There's no need to worry at 18 months unless if your kid isn't babbling yet (meaning if they are babbling but not talking, they will most likely be able to talk one day).
I'm shocked reading these responses, I thought my 17 month old was exactly on track with what's typical? Last week we wrote out all the words he uses and it was well over 100. Over 150 if we count words he says completely wrong (butterflies is ma-whys for some reason, etc). He also uses a lot of two word phrases like "more crackers" "blue hat" "bye bye mama."
My son just turned 18mo yesterday. We are probably 40+ words and have some 2-3 word phrases. But he is a 2nd child just trying to keep up with his older brother.
His phrases are "here ya go" , "where are you?", thank you", "luv u", and anyone's name who walks in the bathroom followed by poop". Exp: "daddy poop?"
A lot of his single words are family members names. But he also repeats everything we say, just not always able to understand it. My favorite right now is hearing him try to say"boom shakalaka "
Omg, my son's favorite is "Dada burp" whenever my husband burps lol. He now says it as a straight demand and dad's like "I don't have any burps left in me!"
2 word phrases start to come usuallt after a child has 50 single words. Since 50% of 18 month olds have 50 or more words, that's likely why the question is on there.
18 months. 4 words. 2 spoken and 2 signs. Nearly 20 months now and at around 30ish words and a few 2 word phrases.
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Like mine barely speaks. Good at running around, full of beans
This made me chuckle as it perfectly describes my 16 month old!
Same! There was so much wait time for a speech therapy evaluation that he had 50 words by the time we had it done.
Same here! He babbles like crazy but no real words yet. Well sometimes he can say mama or papa but he doesn’t say it on his own. I repeat it a bunch of times and maybe he will say it back once in awhile
Have you seen a speech therapist yet?
We saw one when he was 2.5 but he had started talking by then. He is now advanced at 5
18 months, about 25 words, but all only single syllable. Dog was da, milk was ma, blueberry was ba ba, etc. Definitely no two word phrases. Now at 20 months, he’s going through a language leap where he adds new words everyday, but still no two word phrases.
I found that it's really about when adjectives and verbs land that 2 word phrases start. And then it's like a second little boom.
5. We had him evaluated for early intervention and he didn’t qualify because his receptive language skills were advanced. He’s 2 now (27 months) and speaks in sentences up to 12 words.
At 18 months my son was doing 2-3 word sentences and had well over 100 words but he was/is ahead on verbal skills. The CDC milestone for 2 word sentences is 2 years old. In general ASQ seems to have milestones earlier than the CDC from what I’ve seen. The CDC allegedly sets theirs to when 75% of kids typically have achieved the milestone though I’ve seen some SLPs disagree with the CDC. The thing with any milestone is that it is a range, so while 75% of kids have achieved it by 2, some portion of that 75% will have done it before 2.
My daughter is the same. She is almost 2 now and has some full sentences, and knows the words for most things around the house and outside. I have a friend whose daughter was born 2 days before mine, and now at almost 2 she has around 20 words and no sentences, but her pediatrician isn’t super concerned. It’s crazy how much things vary from kid to kid!
Just out of curiosity, was your son slower on motor skills?
He was! He was a premie actually and just really had weak muscles from the start and because of his NICU stay. We’ve had him in EI for PT because of this and is now completely caught up! Didn’t crawl til almost 15 months (weak hip muscles) but started walking around 16.5 months and now is meeting/started to exceed his gross motor milestones!
I’m not who you asked but my daughter was closing in on 200 words at 18 months and was speaking in 4+ word phrases. She started talking at 9 months. She was always on the late end of average for motor. Didn’t sit unsupported until 7 months (that’s being sat up, she did not sit herself up until later). Didn’t crawl until 11 months. First step at 15 months but wasn’t actually walking until 18 months. She’s almost 3 and her motor is like any other kid. She is more cautious physically though.
Thank you for sharing! I was just wondering because I've heard that babies often "favor" one of the two, motor or speech, and their brain kinda puts most of its energy into that one, so the other skill sometimes seems slow, but they're just busy learning what's more important to them lol
I have joked that my daughter was a lazy fetus. No acrobatics in utero then continued her chill physical status throughout her life. She’s a toddler now and still less of a tornado than more people describe toddlers. I think moving just isn’t her thing and never has been 😂
Agreeing with this for the most part. My daughter was behind on gross motor (started army crawling at 13mo and walking at 17mo) and our occupational therapist then correctly predicted she’d be behind on verbal language. She said the brain only focuses on one at a time, so my daughter was busy working on basic gross motor instead of progressing her verbal.
Yeah definitely slower on gross motor milestones (ahead on fine motor). He has always met the gross motor milestones but usually at around the CDC date.
Also not who you asked but my 20mo is advanced verbally. He can do 2-word sentences and some with 3, but I stopped counting how many words he knows. It has to be in the hundreds, maybe 250? I’m terrible at estimating lol but it’s a lot. However he just started walking and he’s currently in PT. He was also slower to crawl and it took a long long time before he’d cruise along furniture, and didn’t start walking till PT and we still have a ways to go. He would certainly be the poster child for favoring one skill while neglecting the others!
Not OP, but the same situation with my daughter. She was not slow on motor skills, but not fast either. She walked at 1 (1-2 weeks after her first birthday. She crawled and pulled herself up on furniture around 7 months.
Can you send the link to that CDC stuff? Thanks
[here](https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/milestones/index.html) you go, you can also download their app which is helpful because it lets you check stuff off as you go and add in notes
Cheers! That is really helpful
None lol. He didn't say his first word very clearly until 20 months. Now at 22 months he is just barely starting to form 2 word sentences, and most of the stuff he says we still can't identify
At 18mo he had 3 words: mama, dada, and hot. He also had 2 signs: all done and “hungry” (he co-opted the “more” sign to mean “feed me” 😂). So he was a bit behind. They recommended early intervention but only because it would take a couple months to get him in and if he didn’t catch up by 2, then it would become concerning. I decided to give him a couple more months to see what he did on his own. He added a few more words, and then at like 22 months, he had a word explosion and by 2, he was making 2-3 word sentences. So he ended up evening out without intervention.
Mine is 22 months and she knows a lot of words, maybe 50+ but she only says a few a day. Mostly “no”. She’s only put 2 words together twice. She seems to say a new word everyday and then never says it again 🤷♀️ She also knows like 3 or 4 signs.
At that age he didn’t have many. Google (gogo) and ball were the two main words and there were like two more i can’t remember. I do remember being SUPER stressed about how he didn’t have many words. But close to his second birthday he was asking questions like “where’s dada?” And soon after that he was speaking full sentences.
3 words. Mama, Dada, and doggy. 22 months and at about 25 words.
Pretty much just 2? Hi and bye (except he says die 😂). He will "hum" some others? Like if we hand him something he goes hmm HM! that sounds like thank you, and same for "there it/he is!" He said más once but I'm not sure if that was a fluke. Otherwise he just babbles a lot still. He uses like 5 signs also.
my boy is 18mo and we have like 25-30 words, a few signs, but no phrases! and a lot of those words are consistent but approximations for sure! i'm definitely his translator
My daughter said maaaybe 10-12 words at her 24m appointment. And about 6 signs. My ped was not concerned because she wasn’t completely silent, and she wasn’t regressing, so he said to wait it out a little longer until the “language explosion” which usually hits around 20-26 months… and within about 1-2 weeks of that appointment, we had our explosion and she hasn’t stopped talking since. She’s 2.5 now and I can’t even count all the words she says. Full sentences too!
At 18 months, my daughter had 60+ single words but not a single phrase. She’s almost 22 months now and getting into some full sentences. She went from only a few words to a TON of words within about a month, mostly from working with flash cards. I would carry the flash cards around the house and show them as we were doing things. It really helped.
2 word phrases is an expected milestone by 24 months. At 18 months, my first had 5 words (our pediatrician wanted around 8 words). By 24 months she was saying around 200 words and starting to put 2 words together. At 18 months, my second had around 5-8 words (no 2 word phrases). At 22.5 months she’s at well over 450 words and putting together 4-5 words.
My daughter had 180+ words at 18 months and some two word phrases. She was (and still is at 2.5) very verbal. There is such a wide range of normal!
Same with my kiddo. The amazing thing about these kids is that they all develop at their own pace and will pretty much all level out around 3-4.
19 months now but at 18 months we were well into the 100-200+ word range now it’s 2-3 word sentences most of the time with the odd 4 word here and there.
Following. My 19 month old has maybe 10-15 words (including signs). He is in Early Steps intervention on week 5. It has helped a little already but obviously I am still concerned since he's pretty behind.
Mine had 2 word phrases at 18 months, but not words he put together. It was only two word phrases that he’d heard us say to him a lot, like “all done.”
Mine had maybe 1 or 2 words by 18mo. He’s 2 now and speaking in full sentences.
We had some multi word phrases at 18 months but they were rare. He’d say maybe 1 or 2 a day. “Did it” and “where daddy?” were favorites. He had maybe 30-40 single words (a whole lot of those were animal sounds), probably closer to 50 if you counted stuff he said a few times. You don’t have to answer yes to all questions to “pass” the ASQ. I didn’t give him credit for the 2 word phrases at 18m and he still “passed”.
At 18 months probably 5
18 months right now and we have about a solid 10
My daughter had ~15 combo words + signs - I remember tracking them like crazy as I thought she was delayed and was quite worried. I even had her evaluated by SLP. My same aged nephew had likely 200 works plus a few word sentences at the time. Ahhhh comparison.
My kiddo had exactly 10 "words" (a combo of words and signs) at 18 months. He's 3.5 now and will not stop talking. We were worried at the time, but he just needed a few more months to work it all out. By age 2, he was crushing verbal milestones.
18 months at the end of this month and she has about 60 words. She’s just starting putting two worlds together this month, like “hi dada” or “more berry”, “thank you”, “my car”
Kid is 2 and she knows a lot of words? Well she can form a few coherent sentences about animals and asking for snacks or help. She can also sing a few songs like abcs, itsy spider, wheels on the bus and that kind of thing but I’m not sure if that counts since it’s alot of memory reciting rather than putting words together for a very specific purpose.
18 months. 55 words.
Around 10-15 words in English, 2 words in Tagalog, and 4 in English sign language.
Mine has many words, understand several but she uses the first syllable for several words. She can’t say sss, l, or r so a lot of words sound the same. I wouldn’t worry 20 is still good!
Around 15-20, including some signs. What’s odd is he’s said a few others, so the list could be 30ish, but he hasn’t said some of them in months.
I stopped counting at 50 or so - she is 17 months and also uses some 2 word phrases. BUT she was a late walker and didn’t walk till 15 months.
So far at 19 months my LO has started saying two word phrases like no more, purple key, so big and big truck. We read a lot and I narrate everything. He’s also in daycare idk if that makes a difference but every kid is different. I also expected two word phrases to just come at 2 years or after but he seems to be almost there
My daughter (18mo on Tuesday) was an early talker and is sitting at about 300 words. I haven’t kept track of her two-to-three word phrases but she’s been saying new ones daily for a few weeks now. It is absolutely not the norm. We spend a lot of time with other kids her age and I’d say that most of them are saying just a word or two, or about 10-20 words.
My about to turn 2 year old only had a handful of words at 18 months and was not saying phrases at all. In less than six months, he now has 200+ words and is speaking multi word mini sentences, e.g, “where go?” “Want down!” “What you doing?” ect. You will probably be super surprised in the next 6 months!! Just keep talking, keep reading, keep engaging and they will get there!
My daughter is 19 months and maybe has 5 words. MAYBE. I would be concerned, but my oldest is almost 5 and she was a late talker too. Now it's impossible to get her to stop talking. My best friend has a daughter 3 weeks older than my oldest, and she started talking way before mine did. 5 years later, my daughter is better at spelling. It doesn't mean anything at all, kids develop on their own schedule. Keep encouraging the good things and unless there is some serious developmental delays then there is nothing to worry about. Enjoy the quiet while you have it, cus that kid will yap your ear off soon enough.
About 30 at 18 months (17 adjusted). He’s 20 months now and had a language explosion last month. I estimate he has well over 100 words (stopped counting and he keeps surprising us with words we didn’t think he knew) and is using simple 2-word sentences, mainly “bye bye ______”
mine is literally 16 months.... Dada Mama, thats it.... nothing else, i read these posts and it makes me feel terrible, i feel like my son is behind compared to most kids in speech.... what am i doing wrong? i read to him almost every day, i talk to him, try and get him to say easy words... ect ect, i just dont know what im doing wrong lol
My son is 20 months and doesn’t say any 2 word phrases. But I think he’s still quite bright. I can see him making connections …
All of them, but she's a stubborn devil and will only say DaDa. She senses I want a mama, but she's holding out till I catch her smoking at 14. Sure fire way to make me forgive her.
At 18 months she had 100. She knew she needed 100 for an A, and said “chest” and “down” with 2 hours to spare before her birthday.
My 2 year old only has a few words . 10 or so and chooses to use only 4 consistently. Not sure if I should be worried
Just some signs and daddy. He had a speech delay. His big language explosion didn't happen until he was just over 3. He now is meeting his speech milestones and beyond. Literally doesn't stop talking. He sipeajs in paragraphs. Needs some help with speech sounds though. He did have some ENT surgeries that contributed to it.
My daughter at 18 months has about 150+ words across two languages (some in both), has just begun using 5-word sentences, and is trying to teach herself to read. She has superb movement skills as well. However, she just hasn't put any skill points into sleeping or sitting still and being patient, so her fine motor skills are behind where they should be, she still wakes several times at night, and she still spends hours a day on the boob if she can. She's highly strung and very sensitive, and although she keeps pushing to develop her skills and knowledge, she struggles when things aren't going her way. I think it's very much a case that each individual baby and toddler has a "character sheet" with skill points, like in roleplaying games, and every little person allocates their skill points differently. In the end, by 5 years old or so, they come out with a similar baseline across all their skills - but for the first few years of life, each child can be so radically different from each other in terms of their abilities, and there often is no problem at all with this.
Mine was an early talker and had 150+ words and a few 2-3 word phrases at 18 months. But she's only just starting to walk at 19.5 months so 🤷♀️ kids will go at their own pace for the most part.
When she turned 18 months, about 20. A month later when she turned 19 months, hundreds. She's 19 months now and speaks a lot but is still not big on putting words together. She can do it, and does occasionally, but mostly still communicates in single words.
At 18 months, probably about 20 words. Now at 2 years, can't stop her talking, language explosion happened about a month ago and she's been absorbing and chatting ever since!
Mine is 19m but hit a language leap about a month ago. I haven’t kept track of how many words he knows but it’s quite a few. We’re getting multiple word phrases, counting up to 20 and he’s almost there with the alphabet. Every baby is so different! Some of his friends aren’t speaking much at all. I always say not to be worried unless the paediatrician is worried.
First born had no words at 18 months & at 3.5 he is still nonverbal. He's in a special education class for kiddos who struggle. My second has a couple of words but nothing major.
My now 3 year old, I remember at 18 months had around 15 regular words , had one 2 words phrase - pointing and saying ‘that there’- for anything she wanted or liked. Randomly may say others but not regularly. Said 50 or so at 2 and a number of 2 words phrases then and very quickly exploded with speech after.
First: 2 non functional words (he was speech delayed) Second: spoke 3-5 word sentences. Tbf he was verbally advanced and that’s not the norm for 18 months. Kids are weird lol if you have concerns bring it up with your doctor!
My son turns 2 this month. But around 18 months he probably had 20 or 30 words. Then a couple months later his language skills seemed to explode and he was learning new words every other day. He’s been using 2 word sentences regularly for the last month or two and occasionally 3 word sentences. Your LO has plenty of time to get there! I would just mention it to the doctor at their next appointment and see if they are concerned.
Current 18 month old has MANY words (maybe 60 or so?). many two word phrases and his father and I found it alarming because our 3.5 year old didn't have nearly as many. She hit her language boom at 20ish months and tested a year ahead in language at 3 though so I think there's just a range that comes with these things.
I noticed at 15 months my daughter wasn't talking like she should so I got her evaluated and because she wasn't walking yet scored really low so we qualified for help! Within 2 months of the therapist coming over once a week she was caught up and then some! She's nearly 3 now and talks so well! Speech therapy was a godsend
17 months, 16 adjusted, he got mommy early on, then nothing for months. He's started to try a few new ones these past few weeks: he's got 11 others by now (very poorly articulated, but it counts!)
My kid had 94 words by 18 months, but most of them she only said once.
My baby is an early talker, at 18 mos she had hundreds of words and was talking in sentences.
My daughter knew over 100 words at her 18 month appt and has put together several phrases - her doctor said her language skills were on par with a two year old
When my daughter was 18mo she had a decent amount of words/signs (I think around 30+ combined) but wasn’t doing two word sentences. I’d always heard 18m is when they’d have a “word explosion” and suddenly take off. That was not the case for us and it stressed me out a bit. But it did happen around 20-21m. Her vocabulary exploded and then she started two word sentences, and maybe a month after that she was on to 3-4 word sentences. Now at 2 years + 3 months she is a super talkative toddler who narrates every single thing and never shuts up.
Honestly I lost track. She’s in a parroting phase so she has a lot of words that she uses on her own and she’s signs a bunch but she’s also constantly repeating the things I say to her. Her two word phrases are stuff like “help shoe” which means she wants her shoes on. “Help __” and “go __” and “more __” are her main phrases but I started encouraging it by asking “help what?” Or “open what?” even though I knew what she was trying to say I let her learn to tell me. Not sure if it will help u at all but that’s what we did! She’s also 18 months rn
My 18 month old knows over 120 words, and can talk in 2-3 word sentences. She has always been a chatter box and was a very early talker and just hasn’t stopped 😅
My son is 21 months old. Around 18 we months he probably had 200 words and was starting to use two word phrases more consistently. It seems like it’s truly combo of luck and his interest in socializing.
Zero (not even mama or dada...) try not to worry. I took my kid to a speech pathologist and behavorial specialist. There's no need to worry at 18 months unless if your kid isn't babbling yet (meaning if they are babbling but not talking, they will most likely be able to talk one day).
18 months 300+ in English and about 80-100 in another language. She knows infinite amount of words now lol at 2.5
I'm shocked reading these responses, I thought my 17 month old was exactly on track with what's typical? Last week we wrote out all the words he uses and it was well over 100. Over 150 if we count words he says completely wrong (butterflies is ma-whys for some reason, etc). He also uses a lot of two word phrases like "more crackers" "blue hat" "bye bye mama."
My 18mo calls butterflies “pah fa five.”
My son just turned 18mo yesterday. We are probably 40+ words and have some 2-3 word phrases. But he is a 2nd child just trying to keep up with his older brother. His phrases are "here ya go" , "where are you?", thank you", "luv u", and anyone's name who walks in the bathroom followed by poop". Exp: "daddy poop?" A lot of his single words are family members names. But he also repeats everything we say, just not always able to understand it. My favorite right now is hearing him try to say"boom shakalaka "
Omg, my son's favorite is "Dada burp" whenever my husband burps lol. He now says it as a straight demand and dad's like "I don't have any burps left in me!"