15 Month Old Preemie...Still baby talk, no real word yet...is this normal??
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i have known of plenty of children that can say less than that at 15 months who were carried to full term. If the professionals suggest speech therapy go for it, it might help her but don't use baby talk with her ever and make sure you read to her!!
good luck!!
very normal. thats pretty normal for a child who is not a preemie.. why is she in early intervention? what issues is she having? i have a daughter born 10.5 weeks early .. shes 3 1/2 now.
Dont worry at all. Its ahead of her age that she even says those words! My daughter is 18 months old, and all she says is "Ma ma, Meow, Daddy, Choo Choo, Where'd it go? and Hi" I'm the one who is a bit worried haah b/c she only says those on command. She doesn't call me mama so you have nothing to worry about, 18 months is when their launguage skills really explode.
Evry child has his/her own schedule for talking. I've known children not talking at age 3. Children in families with older siblings do tend to learn to talk a little easier ( since they often emulate them), but there are no hard and fast rules.
Ive been looking for somebody to answer that for me my little siister is 16 months old and she dosen't say harldley a word all she dose is cries. But I came to find out that sometimes the reason is because of the babies hearing maybe his or her hearing is very good so its hard for toodller to pronounce words you wiil see the mouth move but no words.Some times the cause is for other reasons talk to your doctor or reccomend a therapist.
I doubt anyone can give better advise than your pediatrician. Even another pediatrician would need to see your child to give valis advise. If you don't trust your pediatricians advise, I would recommend going to another one over trying to get advise here.
I have five daughters and they all developed at different things at different times. In other words, don't worry. She will talk soon enough. Doctors tend to give parents the worst case scenario. If you have concerns just spend as much time as you can playing with her and patiently working on short words.
I have a friend that used to come for a visit every once in a while, and bring his son along, his son was four at the time, and had never spoken a word yet, but he had a great bark, seriously. They had a German shepard dog, and that dog had been their sons baby sitter since he was ten months old. He hadn't been around other kids, just the dog. To make a long story short, that boy is 15 now and you can't get him to shut up, so don't worry. Maybe your child just doesn't much to say yet?
That's totally normal. My daughter is 16 months and doesn't say many "real" words either. I don't remember exactly when my first two started talking more (they're 12 & 13 now) but I know they were closer to 2. Give her time. 15 months is sooo young! I got my daughter dvd's that teach sign language for babies. Thought she might like being able to communicate while she waits to develope the skills for speech. Trust me, in 3 or for years, you'll be wondering if it's normal for her to talk so incessantly! LOL
Madam don't worry some babys are speak slowely, and some of them are walk so late etc... it's all happeneds because they have some kind of hormons problems so you don't worry it is quaite natrual may be you saw this kind of things first time in your life thats why you feel bad , it will automatically improve day by day, ok you can do one thing consult a doctor he will give you some good and helpful information, and try to spend more time with your baby it will help to say more words soon... be cool your baby gonna speak really good soon.
my oldest son didn't start talking tell he was about 4 years old so I would say yes it is normal. My son is 8 now and it's hard to shut him up.
My daughter was born premature also (at 25 weeks). She started Early Intervention upon NICU discharge (at 3 months actual) b/c of torticolis as well. When she was 16 months old; I had her evaluated by an ST (through EI) b/c she was only babbling "dada" and "baba"; both without meaning. It wasn't so much the fact that she was still behind, (even for her corrected age), but more so b/c she hadn't babbled anything different for 6 months. In other words, they were more concerned with the time span of there being no change and no progression. I would definitely recommend getting the evaluation done. I'm sure you know; since you are an experienced preemie Mom, that you can not compare your child to other children; especially full term ones. While the other responses here are completely true; all children are different, many talk late and still talk fine; the fact remains that with a preemie, you need to stay on top of development as much as possible. There is no harm in starting the therapy now. And it's completely true that an ST will work with oral-motor skills as well; like holding the sippy cup/bottle, drinking from a straw, providing therapies for oral aversions (if there are any). My daughter did not drink from a sippy cup until she was 22 months old. She wasn't able to hold it until then. So she remained on the bottle, which our Pediatrician was fine with; since I wasn't willing to sacrafice nutrition for method.
My daughter received speech services for 7 months and was discharged at 25 months (actual age). The therapy helped tremendously.
If you're interested in support groups on-line, check out:
www.preemieparents.org or
www.specialparent.org
Both groups have a wealth of information and experience. GOOD LUCK to you and your daughter.
It's great that your daughter is in an early intervention program. When I first started reading your post I was going to tell you to get her enrolled in one posthaste! Yes, she should be saying more by now. She should be seeing a speech therapist at least once a week--often they'll come to your home and do the therapy right there as it is your child's natural environment.
My son just turned 3 and only has about 30 words that he can say and very few people (except those he is around a lot) can understand him. Our (former) pediatrician's office blew us off for more than half a year when I was trying to tell them that he couldn't talk. He was finally diagnosed with dyspraxia and Asperger's syndrome. He missed out on more than 10 months during which he could have been getting speech therapy and catching up with his peers.
Look into teaching her sign language, it was a life-saver for our family when our speech therapist started teaching my son to sign. Some great videos are made by the people at Signing Time http://signingtime.com/ -- they are designed for hearing children to learn to sign. The whole set is a little expensive, but definitely worth it.
my son was not a preemie and he was late in talking and being able to understand what he was saying when he did talk. Trust me in his time he caught on then I couldn`t SHUT HIM UP. Value your time without "NO, why, what`s that etc.." it will be here soon My doctor told me my son would talk whenever he had something worth talking about.
This is pretty normal in preemies. You are definately doing the right thing getting her started in the intervention program and speech therapy. It will give her the help she needs to get on track.
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