When did your toddler have their language explosion?

[Wilsey]

Hiya - just wondering when everyone's children had their language explosion? Im sort of waiting for it!..

Comment if you have insights

Thanks x

EDIT: I consider (hopefully I'm right) that a language explosion is when they suddenly start picking up words every day and talking 2+ sentences.

 

[emyandpotato]

I'm still waiting though we got a first 'mama' a month ago though at the moment it's a sound rather than a word.

 

[Jchihuahua]

Daisy was early at 14 months and Tommy's was at 21 months.

 

[DCS]

Around 22 months for dillan. He went from having maybe 10/15 words to having hundreds.

 

[hattiehippo]

21-22 months for Tom. He went from 15-20 words to speaking in 4-5 word sentences in 2 months. Some days he was coming out with 4 new words!

Don't worry it will come.

 

[dan-o]

In the first few weeks after Vincent was born, so 21 months. He never really said anything at all before that!

 

[AngelUK]

At around 19 to 20 months for Dominic. Before that he had maybe 10 to 20 words. Now I cannot count them, he is learning new ones every day and he is starting on sentences. Sebastian is only saying a few words very occasionally. We are waiting for an appointment at the speech therapist for him.

 

[Nat0619]

18 months. Pretty much the day she turned 18 months! She just started copying loads and has gone from around 20 words to god only knows!! 20 months now and making sentences of 4-5 words. It's amazing how suddenly it happens. She can count to 10 and is trying hard now to say the alphabet.

 

[AP]

more language came about 30 months for Tori after speech classes and groups - shes still delayed though.


Alex was 4 and half years (asd), shes started saying more (albeit its all copying) but its quite crazy in our house and exciting

 

[AngelofTroy]

I don't know if we've hit it or not really. Micah's got a lot of words for his age, I'd guess over 100 and gains more every day. So maybe this IS the language explosion? Then again it's been a pretty steady gain for months now, so I don't have one of those 'one day he had 10 words, the next day 100' stories to tell. He puts words together as concepts but not really sentences, he asks for "more XYZ" or "mummy duddle?" (cuddle) and says things like "baa baa, yes yes" for baa baa black sheep and "omnomnom apple, omnomnom pears" when 'reading' the hungry caterpillar!

 

[Wilsey]

Thank you for your replies. Guess something might happen over the next few months

 

[minties]

23 months. At 22 months he had 4 words. At 23 he had 100 words and 4 word sentences. A month later he could make up and tell you a short story.

 

[JASMAK]

No 'explosion'. It was gradual.

 

[xxVickyxx]

Reading this reassures me somehow. My little boy is 19 months old and only really says a few words, mum, mummy, dad, da da, baby, more, whats that? And i think thats about it. I mentioned it to the doc yesteday at our appointment and shes going to get the hv to do his 18 month check. He doesnt really follow commands either but i think that may b just because he doesnt want to do what am saying not because he cant. Hes a cheeky boy lol xx

 

[Sarah lo]

Olivia still isn't great with her speech and a lot of what she says still comes out as babble but she did come on in leaps and bounds shortly after she turned 2 when she went from one (and sometimes just half) words at a time to putting 2 or 3 words together. Her vocabulary expanded a lot at this time too.

 

[Wilsey]

Thanks all x

He picked up 'cracker' and 'digger' today! Very exciting

 

[Jolann]

Thank you for this thread, its just what I needed to read. My LO is 15 months and has about 6 simple words. There lots of others that are used often and mean something but I wouldn't say were real words as they are pretty different to what they will ultimately be.

Yesterday my mum (who lives overseas) asked me on Skype how many words he had. I told her about 6 and she said "oh lazy boy". I was so annoyed! No, he's not lazy he's developmentally normal and given we're teaching him 2 languages the fact he's not delayed is actually pretty good! So, just nice to come here read this and be reassured that what I was thinking was correct!

 

[Eleanor ace]

Ours is happening now . In the last couple of weeks DS has really started to communicate verbally and comes out with new words every day . Last night he told me "Sky rocket (firework) bang! Sky rocket nice colour nice sound". 2 weeks ago there were fireworks and he was trying to tell me he could hear them but he could only say "bang" and mime an explosion with his hands.

 

[BigAl]

My lo only had one word, and within the space of a week, at 19m, he now copies virtually everything we say. It's amazing!

 

[Wilsey]

I guess it's because I have a 20 month old who has around 25 words, that I find it so amazing some kids had their language explosion prior to 18 months. I can't imagine him having 2 or more extra words almost daily before 18 months, or talking in 2+ word sentences! Prior to 18 months currently has 30% of votes

I know my guy will get there, and I think he's totally on par with the average at this point