Is it normal for an 18 month old to have plenty of words, but for his parents to be all who can understand it?

Question

My son can say quite a few words. We are the only ones who can understand him, though, because the words are either very mispronounced, or sound nothing like the actual word. Is this normal?

Answer 1

The normative data for speech intelligibility are:
24 mos- strangers can understand 50% of what a child says
36 mos- 75%
48 mos- 100%
It's a good idea to have his hearing tested by an audiologist now.
If he falls below the above guidelines, have him evaluated by a speech pathologist.

Answer 2

Yes it is! When my son was little he was like that too. Everyone always looked at me after he said something. I had to "translate" you understand because you hear it more often than others.

I would be careful though because my son [two of them actually] were the same as you described and ended up in speech therapy. My eldest was 16 when he was finally able to stop. My 8 yr old is still in it. My eldest actually had to go to school early [at age 2] for therapy with it. But he loved it. If you are worried, just talk to your doctor about it because that's the one person who knows more about what your child should be doing than you. I hope that makes sense to you. Good luck. If you feel the need take your child to the doctors and talk to him there and let the doctor hear your child speaking.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Completely normal. He's still learning words and since you're around him more often than other people, you're better at understanding him. It's like you can understand his own personal accent. I know I can understand the people of my ethnicity with accented English better than others. He'll learn how to say "supercalifragilisticexpealodocius" perfectly soon enough. Hmm..it won't let me spell out the whole word on yahoo..how odd.

Answer 5

Completely normal. Almost all kids have their own language for a while and usually moms are the translators. You should here my son say Handy Dandy Notebook! no one can understand him ( hes is 3 too) Dont worry he'll grow out of it just repeat the words the proper way and he'll catch on soon enough!

Answer 6

Yes completely normal. People look at me strangley when my son babbles a couple of sentences and I reply to him as I knew exactly what he was saying. As he gets older you want to encourage to say the words properly, but for now it's good.

Answer 7

My 20 year old (Steven) is sometimes like that! Actually, his friends understand him better than we do.

Seriously, if there is a speech problem. If he needs help, he needs help. Be patient with him and don't worry!

Answer 8

Yes! Very normal.

Answer 9

my nephew is just about the same age and we don't always understand him b/c we don't know which words he knows yet or what words are used for certain things. we're just not around him all the time, totally normal.

Answer 10

totally normal.. even my first daughter, at 3 yrs old, she spoke a lot but other people had a hard time understanding her.. it worked itself out fine as she grew up!