2 year old doesnt talk well?

Question

my son just turned 2 and he says a few words, like ball, bike, more, mowing, no, yes, shoes, and a couple of others, but mostly when he is talking he is just using gibberish. my doctor says that even strangers should understand 50% of what he says, but even I dont understand what he is telling me sometimes when he talks. the doctor wants to check his hearing and send him to speech therapy, but i know he can hear and i wonder if he really needs this. is he really behind????

Answer 1

My brother is two years old and about 6 months. He can say some things and you can understand him really well, but other times his words are just a blur and you're like "HUH!?!" lol Right? I don't think he is behind but you never know. If you feel you need to go through with the treatment, do it. You as a Mom will have the instinct on what's best... If you have doubts about him being behind, let him be and keep encouraging him to talk. ;) I think he's just fine personally.

Answer 2

Our little gal sounds like your son. She talked a bit at about two, and said a lot of gibberish. At 2.5 she was a 2-3 word person with some gibberish but was very vocal. At 3 she stared the short sentences and kept moving up and now at 7 she still has not shut up. Our opinion is that a hearing check might be a good idea, but as long as your boy continues to progress it is nothing to worry about.

We looked up lots of info in the past, and it seemed that early talkers started around 16-18 months, and late talkers might be as old as 3 1/2 years.

Answer 3

Hi! I also have a two year old well he turned 2 in march and he sounds just like your boy!! My son wasnt putting sentences together like everyone said he should be so i did have well my aunt is a speech therapist and she has been helping him, she evaluated him and he was at an 18month level, she suggested that we have his hearing checked to see if maybe there was fluid in his ears not letting him hear the whole words or whatever well we did all that and his hearing was fine and no fluid!! We think that he is just a slow talker or late talker but he is still seeing my aunt! She has been sick in the hospital so he didnt get to see her for all of june but we are going back now!! Im sorry im rambling but is your son physical maybe that is why too, my son is veryy physical he would rather run around than do anything else which is ok for me. Well i dont know if i helped but i know how you feel sometimes i wish my son would just talk more!!:) Just give it time and you might look into speech therapy!

Answer 4

I work with children with speech delays who are 2 and 3 years old. By the age of 2 a child should have somewhere around 50 words, and use some 2 word phrases. The hearing test is a good idea, because many children have some hearing loss that causes them to leave off certain sounds because they cant hear them very well. It's not a matter of thinking your son is deaf, it's just ruling out the possibility of any hearing loss. The speech therapy is good too, because it's better to catch him up now so it's not a problem later. Sounds like you have a great doctor. Too many parents complain that their doctors didn't do anything until it was too late.

Answer 5

Hopefully I can help you with this one.

I have a younger brother, he is now 9, who is significantly behind his peers with simple things like tying his shoes, writing....and he still can't master a bicycle. He was also late to use a toilet on his own, and is actually quite inconsistant with his use of it to this day as far as "aiming" goes...and he was late to talk........if I remember correctly, he didn't say much at all, and when he did get to speaking (when he was almost 4) his speech wasn't anything great, either. However, my brother is amazing in other areas! Even before he turned two he could upload programs and things like that on our computer, he's extremely sweet, and he's great at math.

What my parents discovered when he was entering pre-school is that my brother has ADD and Apraxia - a neurological disorder characterized by loss of the ability to execute or carry out learned purposeful movements, despite having the desire and the physical ability to perform the movements. It is a disorder of motor planning which may be acquired or developmental, but may not be caused by incoordination, sensory loss, or failure to comprehend simple commands (which can be tested by asking the person tested to recognize the correct movement from a series).

Immediatley my parents started him up with a speech pathologist and tried to engage him on activites that could improve his concentration, such as karate, and he was also prescribed with ADD medication.

His improvement over the years is very obvious and even his teachers are impressed and see the differences that all of this extra help has made.

My parents were not the type to simply use pills to solve a problem like his, and were very reluctent to go to them, but they don't regret it now and they see the good that it has done in the long run for him.

Please don't feel like there was anything wrong that you did as a parent when you raised your son - I believe that my brother and I are good examples of how parenting has little effect on the development of disorders like ADD because I, personally, am in no way at all at a disadvantage with my concentration. I was talking AND reading before I was one and my little brother hasn't been treated any differently from the way my parents handled me at a young age.

Basically, some kids have it, some kids don't. I would suggest that you look into the possiblities of your child having either ADD or Apraxia, or at least looking into each disorder's characteristics because both can be managed.

Hope this helped!!! Don't get discouraged ; )

Answer 6

My younger brother has the same problem, and now he is ten years old and has a mild form of autism. But they have been testing him for seven years now and saying he has this disease and this one and this one and on and on and on, so just incase that's what ends up happening....
There's some advice =]

But, he may just be a little slow in speech, we found out that my same brother had the hearing/speech thing after he wouldn't respond to anyone at 2, or 3 years old when my grandmother made a huge noise just behind him with a pan, just to see if he would respond, and....He did not. Although...I'm not sure if that has anything to do with your question =3

Well, that's all I have to tell you, I hope it helps somehow!

Answer 7

I think what you are describing is relatively common but I would have it checked out and get him speach therpay if it is indicated. I remember when my son was that age he started in a toddlers program for an hour 3 times per week and the standard at that time was that the teachers wanted to be able to understand approx. 50% of what was being said and most of the kids were at that level. It is better to take care of these things early so that by the time they are in pre-school (4 yrs) they can communicate clearly. Pre-school and 3yr old nursery schools are when the kids begin learning the sounds of the letters (phonics) and you want your child to be able to say the sounds and letters as clearly as possible. I know it might sound early but they are beginning to read in Kindegarden (5yrs) and can read well by 6 so you don't want your kid struggling with the sounds and with being understood by teachers.

Answer 8

I would work with him. Not saying it is your fault because I would never say that about anyone but try talking to him in complete sentices and no more babytalk (if you do) sometimes parents use baby talk to children and do not even realize they are doing so until the children start to speak. Take care to use full sentices and talk to him ALOT. If he still has problems at 3 than I would think about speech classes 2 is still very young and very normal

Answer 9

Please read this!!!! I had your problem two months ago. My daughter did the same thing and I could only understand 20% of what she said. I had Early Intervention coming, when all of a sudden out of nowhere, She started talking in two word sentences!!!!! Don't be so quick to put him in speech just yet!!!!! Give him a few months, keep talking to him, force him to talk to you!!! Let the tantrums happen. He will speak without help. Good luck. email me at [e-mail] if you wish to talk more.

Answer 10

my oldest daughter is two and talks alot like she says everything clearly but then my middle child who is 1.5 barley says gibberish. The only thing she says is da-da so personally I think it dependes on the child but speech therepy is the option for my daughter so I don't think it would be a bad thing and if anything he will end up talking more clearly, nuttin wrong with that.