what are the speaking and vocabulary norms of a 21 month boy?

Answer 1

mmm well im not sure of the norm but my son who is 26 months talks really well but it does come on all of a sudden like at 21 months he was trying to put sentences together and they literally progress day by day but every child is different especially ones with older siblings because you find the older one talks for them they all talk in the end! i read books to mine and when out and about talk about all the different things around!

Answer 2

i work in a daycare and they all differ tremendously. Some talk a mile a minute others not a peep. Generally at that age they understand a lot more than they can speak. they have a vocabulary of 10 to 100 words give or take a few. If your child follows simple direction, "mimics" others through pretending to read, playing house, having made up conversations and babbling, then he is probably okay.

Answer 3

i think that there is no set limit to what a 24 month can say and do, we have a two year old boy who was born 3 months premature, so he is still a bit behind than most 2yr olds, yet he understands everything you tell him. hes got a vocabulary of around 50 words and can nearly string a sentence together. if your worried about your child's speech you can take them to speech therapy, this can be done through the NHS. i cant stress enough the benefits gained from this, for both parent and child.

Answer 4

'No' is quite a popular one to start with!

21 is quite young so mainly restricted to 1,2 or 3 words. Knowledge of words will far out weigh the actual ability to say them. By that I mean you might ask him to point things out from a page of a book and he'll do it without hesitaion but he wouldn't be able to actually identify them by saying the names of things you pointed to.

Children learn everything by copying so if they have a good example to follow they will learn just fine. So long as you are speaking to him - and not in baby talk - playing and reading and showing him things with a clear word to identify it, then his speech will develop just fine, regardless of how you might feel other kids are 'better'. No child is better. Each child is unique and capable of different things.

Answer 5

Around that age was when my daughter first really started talking. I mean, there were words she knew before then, but in the couple months before she turned two, all of a sudden she started saying more and became a little parrot! One of the first things she said as a sentence was "I don't want it" or "I don't like it." She can also give commands, her favorite, when she was in the high chair eating, was telling me to "sit down!"

Answer 6

theres no such thing really as the norm- you could have a conversation with both my boys by the time they were eighteen months-where as my friends children didnt speak very well untill they were three ,i put this down to the fact that i spoke yo my children constantly even when they were you young to understand if i took them for a walk to the shops i pointed out evert thing we saw such as trees squirels the sky the sun sand water swings every thing you see,they soon learnt what everyday things that they come into contact was same as at home when they were dressed i said lets put on you vest you top your socks and so on. im sure people use to think i was mad when i was out walking,because it looked as if i was chatting to myself but my children benefited.give it a try children love to learn they are like little sponges at that age,,,,,

Answer 7

It varies wildly. I have a 21mo old daughter, and she's barely mastered DaDa and MaMa. (And apparently only at the top of her lungs! That's all we hear when she wants something: MAMA! DADA! UH UH UH! Makes it really fun to go to Mass.)

Our son, however, was speaking in short sentences by the time he was 2. Go figure.

With our daughter, the doctor asked "but does she seem to understand? Is she making other attempts to communicate? Is she advancing in other ways? In our case, the answer was yes. We get a lot of nodding and shaking of the head. (Nodding for cake, shaking for carrots...) So we're just going to watch and see.

Answer 8

at the age of 2 my son only said "hi" and "hot." I was worried (like most moms get...) that something was wrong, but day by day he started picking up new words. Now he's almost 3 and he carries on a conversation. and sings too!

Answer 9

it really depends on the child. simple things like mummy daddy cat i have a 24 month old who is very advanced in his speech but my friend has a boy one day younger who cannot say anything. a good thing to do is to sit with your child with a book and speak out the words to him/her and ask them to say it like. look there is a car! car !can you say car if they try say things like oh you are a good boy/girl mummy thinks you are so big praise is key to a child learning .baby babble is how a child forms words so don't be discouraged if that's all he/she wants to do at the moment.

Answer 10

single words like mommy daddy and his favourite food name and things sround the house that he likes
talking to your child about everything helps a lot in getting their vocabulary started
my son was slow in talking but since i started talking to him about everything that we did like when i give him a snack i talk to him about it for instance " here you go baby eat this cookie and finish your milk" that how he started saying back things to me and also reading to him helps a lot
you have to let him hold the book and read it to him and point out the main things in the book
there are games on the sesame street website which helps a lot to