My son didn't say a word until he was 3. Every child is different . Some sit quietly yet take it all in as did my son. Even if children are late talking most of them level out with their peers at some point. Top of his class and bright as a button my son.

What an amazing list as a mama of 3 with speech delays this topic is so important and you did an amazing job presenting the facts!

Literally left the doc office so upset and almost in tears. My son is 2 1/2 and displays everything you have dealt with. The insane tantrums. The saying sounds the refusal to talk. I mean your spot on. My doc says I should get him checked for autism and I was so offended. My son is sooo bright and clever and understands everything. He’s such an avid reader with books always wanting to learn new things and learn it himself so he can be independent. I truly believe he will talk when he’s 3. It’s like a mom gut feeling in me. I’m switching docs cause I need to find a doctor that has seen more babies. My son was crawling at 5 months and walking before his birthday. I’m going to have him see a speech therapist and see what they may think of if he’s able to grow with that. I tell my doctor if he could talk everything would be perfect. My son just refuses to talk he like screams, barks mumbles if we do something that he doesn’t want we try it encourage him to say a word and word. But he’s rather make the sound of the object than say it. Thanks for this video this doc was making me feel like I was crazy. I know it doesn’t hurt to seek help esp if there’s nothing wrong but I just am so bothered how healthcare professionals have kids wanting to be mini adults by the time their 2-3. Like not every kid is on that timeline. Give me a break.

Any other dads here?

I read through the comments and see other mom's having a rough time with their little ones. I can relate so well, my son, who is 4 now started speech, occupational and developmental therapies when he turned 2, and when he transitioned to school at age 3 he continued receiving therapy in school which he attended 2 hours a day Mon - Fri. He made 4 in March and the pandemic hit hard!, the schools and therapy services were shut down now we have been homeschooling and working with him at home for improvements in the areas he struggled in. I must say he has come a long way and there is still more to come. I'm extremely proud of his successes so far. Through my experiences I learned to keep doing what we do as parents be consistent, love on your child, teach, show and tell them things this will help expand their vocabulary and day to day activities, make time for them and they will eventually grasp it. Every child learns and process things differently so it all takes time so don't beat yourself up. I wish everyone well !

This video was so helpful! My 2 year old is currently going thru the same thing. Very encouraging to hear someone else's story and definitely will be taking her to a speech therapist.

This video is definitely helpful!! My son never babbled as a baby either and at 18 months I was a bit worried because he wouldn’t say a single word and literally a month later he was a talking machine. I hope everything works out well for your son ❤️

Great advice on things to look for on toddler speech delay. Thank you for sharing your story and helping others!

Never let guilt consume you! I am glad that you are recognizing those areas that you deem as lacking and flawed and working on making it better!

This was so so helpful. Thank you for doing this!

That was exactly how my little sister was she grew out of it so if you're worried I hope this gives you some peace.

Great video! Thanks so much for sharing. My son does a couple of things the same as what you have mentioned. Will definitely look into it with a gp for piece of mind. Thanks so much and don’t feel guilty you are doing something about it now and that’s all that matters.

I respect you so much for opening up to help people

I feel like you are describing my daughter except for her first words! Thank you so much for sharing your experience. This has solidified my decision to seek a SLP

Oh mom guilt is a powerful burden to carry. You are right - must not let it take over. Recognize you are experiencing it and let it go!!! Raising kids is such a "learn as you go" thing!! 😩 Especially when you have more than one and discover they all develop and learn differently... (me). LOL I'm so glad you are sharing your experience with moms to help them on their parenting journeys.

Thank you for sharing. My son is also speech delayed and I’ve been inspired to document his journey

I thought that my youngest had speech delay, as my oldest did everything so very early. But Trent was on his own time schedule with things... and now I can't get him to "shut up". Thanks for sharing!

Really informative video! So many new moms will glean from this information. Thanks so much for sharing. 😊

Great video! I have a brother who was speech and developmental delayed. He will be 36 soon.

Thank u so much! This vid helped us more than u know!!🙏 Much love

You are an amazing mom. Keep up the good work💕

you are a great mom...thankyou for this video..❤

My two sons have the same 10 signs which you mentied in this video and I was going through hell and back just to put these points together and make a sense of what is actually happening with them... I just wanna say a big THANKS 😊🙏... I have watched a lot of videos on speech delay and autism but your there is something in your approach which is so calming ....

It's so unfortunate this had to happen but thanks for sharing your experience! It's so helpful for mommas to know what to look for.

Thank so much for posting this video.

You have described my son... he's start babbled recently he saying mama.. but not often... feel so sad but its comforting I'm not the only one going through this with there toddler.

Hi id like to help reassure some of the mum's. My son was a late talker. He did all the pointing bit to. My daughter was so fast at talking, so I compared them alot. He had to have speech therapy until the age of six. He didn't actually start to say a few words until he was close to 3. At six he had to have his tonsils and adinoids out. His speech greatly improved after that. I don't know if that was the problem or just a coincidence, but worth checking out. He's now 31 and works in IT not a hint of a speech problem and is in an advisory role were he is talking to large volumes of people every day. And has even given talks to school children. So take heart mum's, things can may seem scary and dark, I've been there. I have a video of my son at 4 saying..."Loo a big hig"...translated as "look at that big thing" which was an aeroplane. Try not to stress out too much. My youngest son was such a bad eater compared to his older siblings. I was convinced my son would starve. Again it was just his way and today at 26 is a strapping big man. Don't beat yourselves up and take each day as it comes. Things can improve naturally.

Im for certain my son has a speech delay. Everyone says I'm crazy. Hes two has had a first word, over a year ago. But he doesn't say words now. He still says sounds and babing and he doesn't understand what anything means.

Thank you this helped me so much.

Thank you!! Very helpful

Thank God nobody is mentioning autism because i am so sick of hearing of that...i feel every child develop on their own time and we as parents need to let them have that time but also help them along the way

I knew children before who had speech delays until they reached four and are now on their puberty stage and they all are living normally. This means that even if signs and symptoms of autism become manifest when they were young, they may all be gone eventually as they grow older.

Great tips! I'll be sharing about our speech journey next month. This video will help others TREMENDOUSLY!

Thank you for sharing the video

Wow 4 years ago u uploaded this video ❤ I’m sure things have changed alot ❤️

Great Video ! My Wife blaming me for our son not talking lol. 2 and half ,We going to see a speech therapist!

Thank you lovely mammy! ❤️🤗

My son is nearly 18 months and isn't really speaking much (he makes sounds) or walking yet. I think I'm going to insist on a hearing test after this video. Thank you so much for sharing :)

My son is 2.5 and a lot of the things you explained are exactly him!! I’m so happy I found this video. It is SO hard to not compare! I love my boy so much and it hurts me when people think he is slow. He has a cousin who is 2 months younger and saying way way more than my boy. But my son has always been more advanced with his motor skills- balance, coordination, etc. he’s much more focused on physical aspects and running around than trying to sound stuff out and practicing words. My son’s word for car was always the *Brrroom* sound, and just recently he’s changed it to “CAH”. He calls cats “Now” because they go “meow”. Sheep are “baas”- and so on. He can say his colors, but struggles with orange so he makes up his own word. He can recognize numbers, and count, but he calls EVERY number “Two”. It’s like he’s nervous to try sounding them out. I had him evaluated right before his second birthday and speech eval ladies came and said he was advanced in everything including social skills, no signs of autism, but speech was in the average range so he didn’t qualify for their services. His doc thinks I’m a loony mom when I bring up his speech because he’s still “only 2”. I like his doctor and his doctor has like 18 grandchildren and has seen plenty of kids grow at different paces and he seems confident my boy is fine. I still find myself comparing my son to other kids and feeling guilty though 😔 Thank you for the reassurance at the end of this video it really helped me snap out of it

Thank you, I appreciate this video. You have given me clarity on this issue on speech delay

This is so much like my son! Thank you so much for this video. I have been feeling so much guilt because I got pregnant when he was 8 months old and was so sick and unable to get around well at the end so things didn’t happen. But my son has so many of these signs. He turns 2 next month and so many people think I’m overreacting about his speech. But I decided I’m going to push the doctor for an evaluation at his 2 year check up because I keep saying having him checked out doesn’t hurt anything. Well I’ve started doing some research on speech and teaching him because he does things like won’t point to body parts and I found this video. It makes me feel so much better. My kid before him just turned 17 and I’ve been thinking I don’t remember how to teach my kids things because he’s just not doing it yet. I’m not one to worry too much if my kid is a little slower at picking things up but at the same time know it’s important to get heap early for problems.

Oh girl. My 2 year old girl is going through this too. I wanna cry I have a teacher coming from speech therapy and she stopped coming because of covid19 in the world. I just want my lil one to start talking. This made me cry because I'm really trying. I feel like I'm a failure. 😥😭

Thank you for your video. My 2 1/2 year old has similar issues. He has improved since he turned 2 but we have arranged for a speech therapist to come see him in a couple of weeks.

Thank you. Thank you. You have no idea.

Thank you for your video. Im a mother of three also.. My son will be 2 in August and doesn't say not 1 word or associate words to anything. With being able to work at home during this covid time, it's giving me more time to work with him. Its scarey thinking something is wrong with your baby and unable to get the help because of it being during this pandemic.

My son is almost 18 months and still no words 😞 his hearing was checked at birth it was perfect, his pediatrician recommended Omega 3, we’ll see..I might take him for a hearing check after watching this video..thank you for sharing ✨💕✨

Thanks for sharing your experience! This is helpful. This sounds a lot like my youngest son. My older son was an early talker (like clear words, full sentences by 2years old!), so I was worried when my youngest did not talk much until he was three. I noticed he understood really well, but just used VERY few words. He also threw lots of fits when he couldn't communicate with us. Now he talks really well and has full sentences! And P.S. My daughter's name is Elynna (Ellen-na)- sounds similar to your daughter's!

My son does the same thing for “dog” and also calls everything “blue” so funny how similar!

Thank you.. this is helpful. I have 2 toddlers, 2yo &7months, and 19months and they both have speech delay. ❤️

I started teaching my 2yo boy signs to help with the tantrums .... still working on getting him to make sounds

I was so worried about speech delay with my oldest. Thankfully that was the one intervention we didn’t need! Thanks for sharing!

Thank you! Is super video for speech delay. There is many video for autism but speech delay is not many good and informative video!

It's so unfortunate that you had to go through that with your son, sometimes doctors really misguide us, and we put all of our trust in them. My son just turned 13 months, and he still doesn't talk. He babbles a lot, but isn't saying "mama, papa". Our pediatrician said by 12 months they should be saying 3 words... so I'm getting worried.. I'm going to consider taking him to a SLP!! Thanks for such an informative video :) New friend here!

Thanks for sharing

Hello, How is your son doing now in language/Speech and how old is he now?

I searched this up bc my cousin is 2 and it was strange for my whole family that he still can’t speak. All he does is scream, bites on things, and doesn’t listen when someone talks to him. But the only word he understands is “no”

My son is almost 2 and he's developmentally delayed. He babbled a lot and started talking but around 14 months, he stopped. he went from about 5-6 words to none. We got him evaluated and they've determined that he is developmentally delayed, he gets therapy three times a week. He doesn't have any words on a regular basis but we're very hopeful it will improve.

May I ask how is your son now? My son is 2 years old now and mirrors your situation at the time. We were adviced by the doctor to go have him looked at, but we're reluctant to go out to the clinic nowadays because of the COVID situation.

Thank you for your video. My son ( 19 months) has experinced the same thing and he only can create sound but cannot speak. I am so frastrauted and stressed.

it enlighten me when i watch this video, my son is 23 months and still not talking more on T sounds and mama, thats only he knows to say. A lot of people tells me not directly that maybe theres something why does he didnt talk like that blah blah and its getting me frustrated and sometimes thinking maybe yeah there something wrong like that im getting anxious. But my son he understand me already i can give him instructions then he will do it, and he can remember what our daily routine. its just he really doesnt utter a words alot, but there are times he follows what im saying but not often it worries me actually. sigh

We are a bit worried to my 2 years old nephew. He can't even speak mama or papa. Can't even do hand gestures for 2 or like this ✌. When we ask him to speak like dog or cat he will just say "aw aw". And when he sing twinkle twinkle all the lyrics was T. Is it normal?

My son is almost like yours! He bubble but I can't compere with other children. His first word was hi( ciao) we live in Italy, but I'm Polish. It was at 1,5 year, after start to say am am or mniam for the food when wanna eat, after word No. Now speak maybe 10 or 12 words:ciao, mniam, no, mama, papa(daddy) bus, giu( to go out), hau hau -dog, miau - cat, chrum -pig, siu siu for go to toilet is from polish language He also use some strange word like you say mispronunced for example for his friend her name is Eliana but he call her Cici. I hope he start to speak at age 3 if no we must take him to therapist, he also understand two languages italian and polish. I stimulate him but he repeat only sounds that are easy for him or sometimes say other like I say baba and he say papa, I think still has not mature articulation, I was panic of autism but for now neurologopedist said she don't see autism here.

Thx u for this video and mom guilt I just felt continent away mom guilt is same. Thxs mom

Speech delay is such a controversial topic. Thank you for posting this. I'm a new subscriber and fellow mama vlogger

Omg my baby doing exactly the same. Everything bit by bit. I seeking SP therapy as well.

My son will be 2yrs old next month. When he was less than a year old he started to say mama, dada. After a yr old he started to sing, clap to whatever he was watching. He used to say quack quack. All those that i have mentioned he no longer does. Sometimes i cried and feel bad that he's not talking. He is seeing a speech theraphy but i dont think that it is working. I just want my son to talk.

I think my 22months son have this signs too.What do you recommend i should do.I really want him to talk.

I lived with a speech therapist. He had some demons (not literally figure of speech) One day he went off on me when I came back from a trip with my son. He made my son cry I got a hotel because I was so frightened by how he spoke to me and my son. I know he knew better too. After I blocked him he texted my dad saying my son has a speech delay. I am so angry in my heart that someone would ever come after my son. He speaks so much I watched this because I hate to admit it but his comment really hurt me. My son has played with him before. I'll never trust anyone to be alone with my son :( he was so crazy and horrible. Yet he was so educated graduated from Berkley!

So glad I watched this video. My son will be two next month & he refuses to talk.. before 18 months he was saying everything from ball to thank you. I would say words & he would repeat them after me. Since COVID he has regressed.. he just refuses to talk. He will say no & mama.. that’s it. I’m kind of confused and I really don’t know what to do.. should I wait until two or?

You’re a great mom and thanks for sharing and inspiring others❤

I was told using sounds of animals counts as words, even if they have said the name of animal in the past. My daughter said mama at 3 months. She’s said simple words and 2 words sentences by a year. Fast forward to 19 months; she still puts 2 words and some 3 word sentences together, but it’s not as often. She says ruff and meow, papa, yes , shakes head yes and no, points can pick up a red ( or any color) crayon of I ask but won’t say it. I read to her, we play. I didn’t think it struck concern until her dad keeps mentioning she should talk more

My daughter is 30m old She can only say about 10 worlds Up is her main word… she says it for everything She is #4 out of 5 in my family We have been on a wait list for speech for the last year & still waiting. She also does the panting for Puppy

I love you mom😍😘

My daughter is 18 months and she has a few words she will say on her own time (mama, daddy, baby, baba) but she won’t try and say anything when I sit and work with her or when I ask her to say the words she already knows😭

Hi, I am just seeing your video. How is your son doing now?

My oldest son was an early talker and hasn’t stopped since! My middle son was a little later but still on track. He’s still a little quieter but I think it’s more that he gets embarrassed easy because he is shy and he does have a little bit of a speech impediment. My baby babbles tons so I think he’ll be a little more like his oldest brother!

My son is 19 months old n in my opinion he is very smart n response well, he learns stuff quickly, has good memory, knows is body parts, he follow instructions well n know exactly what he's doing I think he is genius, the only problem I have is that he's not talking just babbling n pointing, I think he is holding back n afraid to talk

Thanks for the tips! I feel like my daughter will talk soon because she baby talks so much but 🤷🏻‍♀️

Am facing the same problem... How did you overcome...? Please reply..

Hello my children have 3 year and half not speak but know almost things...what i must do???

Can you recommend any books that you feel helped your son?

My son is also speech delay,showing all things u said n now how is ur littl one mam

How is ur son doing now?I m a mother of almost 4 yrs old late talker. He is doing ok.but every thing is closed these days preschool and all that. Plz tell how is ur doing?

Hello, I noticed that you made this video last year. My 27 month year old son is not talking at all, he babbles when he feels like it, mostly grunts/hums, he knows what we are saying to him but just doesn’t repeat when we talk to him. He can say bye, hi, shark, bath but ONLY when he wants to. He has yet to say mommy or daddy. It is very hard because I cannot help but compare to his older brother at this age, who was talking in sentences at 2 already. I was referred to early intervention but I thought to wait it out but now I am desperate. How is your child’s progress since this video?

Does the baby with speech delay start to speak at age 3 I heard this that they finally starts to speak at 3 or something even without terapy?

My son is 2 years 9 months and doesn’t speak in full sentence but just 1 words should I be worried pls itis a sign of delay speech. Pls help me

My daughter hums and don’t say much . She’s says little stuff but the doctor sent us to the speech Therapist and she’s still not walking around but can pull her self up . I’m so worried about everything

Howdy! My 2-year-old daughter watches cartoons on TV but also plays, she has interactive toys and we play with her. We don't put it on the phone almost at all, and in the car it has a tablet with a holder in the headrest that we only use in emergencies (rarely). She recognizes a lot of things, responds to names and is very active, but not talking yet. She babbles on her "tongue", takes us by the hand if she needs something, and rarely utters words. Should we be worried?

Did your son use gestures at 16 months like clap and point? My son does not yet nor talk at all.

Does teething delay speech? My little one is 20 months old and still teething. We have only 13 tooth now. Any help pls???

My son is turning 2 in January and he is making more sounds and saying momma every now and then . His walking was delayed started walking at 11 months I feel like he does stuff on his own time because he skipped crawling I hope this is the same and that he starts talking sometime next year

wow, this is really helpful. I no idea that these were signs of a delay. It is very hard sometimes not to compare kids. I have two daughters and I find myself comparing my youngest to how my oldest was developing at that age, and I had to tell myself that these are different kids, and they develop differently so I agree with trying not to compare. Sometimes moms notice things before anyone else. Thanx for this video very informative.

As an ECE who runs a home daycare you have no idea how many parents I suggest their child get an assessment and they refuse! They just want to wait and see which is really frustrating. Like you said and like I say to parents, there is no harm in seeing an SLP!!

Unfortunately feeling guilty is part of being a mother!

just came home today from my 2 yr old son pedia visit.and the pedia is suggested me on going to have hearing test for my son and accessment for speech therapy.my son says few words only like head,nose,mouth,byebye,hello,hi. but he does all i asked him to do like go close the door etc.

legit absolutely everything you just said is my son

I missed how old is he now? I want to know when his tantrums started to pass. My daughter has speech delay and mild autism, we are going through hell with the tantrums now, she just turned 3. I have a similar video coming up soon 😅

I am crying right now because my son is 2 yrs and 10 months old . Someone told me today “oh you are a nurse but your son has speech delay. What should i do , he can say 10 words only. I’ve been teaching him , showing flash cards but seems like he is not interested. He has eye contact and can understand whenever i told him to get something

i have a boy he just turned 2 but am worry about he's speech he just say someword like go,no,ok,and when i teach hem abcd he say o,e and r that's all he knows.he understand when u said no but when i asked him to give me sometingsomething no understand.he is normally active and happy boy but am still worrying.

Do kids come out of speech delay or do they still lag behind pls reply