I wonder if someone can help? My daughter is 20 months old and is a very happy, loving little girl and well behaved. However, i have been concerned for sometime regarding her limited speech. Firstly, she did not consistently babble until about 11 months old, but did not have a wide range of babbling until she was about 14-15 months old. She only really says 'gink' or 'dink' for drink does try to immitate some words, i.e., piggy, car, daddy but does not refer to me as mummy or mum mum. She does point at pictures in books, features on your face and at some body parts that she knows when you name them, but has never pointed to the birds in the sky to get your attention and say 'look at the birds'. Her receptive language, seems pretty good, naming parts of the body, where is your ball things, rub cream into mummy's face, things like that. She does sing - well what is mean is sings the tune - so tone is there but the words aren't - each word for the song is ga ga ga. She will do things like put her hands on head and say 'heh' for head and to get you to sing the song, 'head and shoulders, knees and toes', which is really cute.
The other that bothers me is her arm flapping. When she is excited, or likes what she sees she arms flaps and has done this for a long time. She has good eye contact, sleeps and eats well, not intolerant to anything - so should i be worried?? she knows the purpose of most objects, phones, hair brush, talc etc.
i know that some children don't really talk until they are two and i know alot of children arm flap when excited - i am just concerned about the combination of these two factors?
I worry myself so much - i have another baby on the way at the end of the year so more stress to add to the load!!
I have raised this with my Health Visitor and she has got her an appointment to get her hearing tested, just to rule that out - i don't think she has a hearing problem.
Any comments, would be gratefully appreciated. Thanks xx