Taysmommy

I don't want to seem nosy or stepping in where I'm not welcome but in your other post you said your daughter only says 2 words at 14 months.   My son didn't say any words until he was 22 months old. This is not normal. He had alot of ear infections and tubes placed in both ears 3 times, it wasn't until they did another set of tubes and removed his tonsils and adenoids (adenoids) that everything cleared up and they discovered he hadn't been able to hear much of anything until then.  Have you had your daughters hearing checked?  Also, another thing the Dr's told me is you can't let an older child talk to them and you need to make them use words. Such as when they are whining, pointing to juice, make them say juice by repeating it to them over and over.  Even if they don't say it correctly at first it's a start.  Please don't think I'm judging your parenting skills by making these suggestions.   I know all too well the frustration of having a child that doesn't talk.

[ImmortalOne]

Some children choose to not speak at all till they are older as well.  It isn't always a problem with the child, sometimes they just choose to not speak then one day they are having a ton of conversations with anyone that will listen.  At 14 months old it seems a little early to expect a large vocabulary.

[taysmommy]

thanks for worrying about me! i dont think your judging my parenting skills, i took it as trying to help, so dont worry,

the only time ive gotten her hearing checked was when she was born, so thats something that i will look into at her 15 month appointment, we dont have any older children to talk to her, and i also really try to annunciate  my words when i talk to her, i still talk in the little voice you use when talking to little ones, but i dont like it when people goo goo ga ga at her, my mom thinks im crazy about this, she thinks shes a baby and you should talk to her like one, i had to get DH out of the habbit of saying his "R"s funny, because i was worried shed have a speech impedimat lol, but i will definatly have her doctor check her hearing, i think she may be a late bloomer on the vocab, she achieved all her motor skills very early (such as walking and crawling)

and she does babble on all the time, she just cant form words quite yet, i know i need to relax, i do too much comparing of for example my friends babies and when they talked and such

how is your son now? is he doing well with the verbalizing?

[have 2 kids]

I'm glad I didn't offend you.  Lately on the board it's hard to tell how someone will react.
My son is doing very well.  He still has a little problem with pronunciation when he get excited.  He is almost completely caught up with his class in reading.
They recently tested him and he's about 3 wks behind.  We are very happy with his progress.
Thanks for asking!

[taysmommy]

good im glad hes up to speed now, 3 weeks is nothing, im sure most kids dont test exactly in the "norm" anyway, good luck!

[jennifer1977]

My sis didnt talk until almost 3 yrs old, and shes fine.  (22 and doesnt shut up;)

My daughter was sounding like a deaf person and we had her hearing checked out at 3 yrs old, and she could hear just fine.  At 8 she still sometimes says her R's wrong, but a speech therapist said that can be normal.  

My 15 month old says, hmm lets see, about 5 words, and his ped. is not concerned.  Never heard of not letting your older kids talk to the little ones, my kids have learned so much from each other, good and bad, so maybe thats true, but Id hate to think of them not talking to each other.  It is true, my son and daughter are 14 months apart, dd older, and my boy tlked better than she did.  But after a year of my oldest in school, and it being just the two of them and me at home, he started sounding like his sister.  Now my 4th talks just as clear as can be, and all the other kids talk to him all the time.  (3  years old)

If you are worried about your childs hearing, have it checked out, but I think you may have a while to worry about her not talking, just yet.

[have 2 kids]

didn't mean not let older kids talk to them I meant to say talk for them.

[taysmommy]

thats what i thought you meant, i figured you didnt have a "dont talk to the baby or else"policy lol, what i was meaning was i dont let little kids talk baby talk to taylor, probably too much on the paranoid side, but my family is notorious for early speech problems (well my uncle has 6 kids, 4 of them attened speech classes) and i think its because his older two talked goo goo ga ga to them, the youngest was 5 before you could understand what he was saying