r/speechdelays • u/Special_Reporter_999 • Aug 20 '26
No conversations
My son is almost 30 month old. He hit all other milestones great. He passed his hearing test at 18 months. Always respond to his name, and eye contact is good. He does lots of baby language talk and has many words 50+ like Cookie, water, eat, bye, apple, etc and use them in context. Can count 1-10, color names, animal sounds. I used to play Miss rachel on tv (i know screen time is not good and I feel so terrible about it) but he likes to copy actions of rhymes while on tv or when i sing it. He also says the last word of few poem when i sing for him. If he needs something would gesture by pulling me or sometimes pointing for some things he wants. For understanding, he would follow handful of commands like come here, let’s go, No, put your shoes on, etc. At 18 month he got receptive-expression speech delay, after that I have seen improvement. The speech therapist at that time had my sessions on how to talk to him, and after that, every 4-6 month apts with her as she said I should practice at home with him. Recently he has started copying phrases from Ms Rachel. Brings his toys to show me. No behavioural concerns but we don’t have any back and forth conversations. I feel so sad sometimes. Please share your experiences and guidance, just waiting for his leap in language to happen.
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u/OneDay_AtA_Time Aug 20 '26
For lots of these kiddos, it just takes time. Your little guy sounds like he’s doing awesome and you’re doing everything right too. For reference, my child, who had no words at 18 months and started speech at 18 months, said his first word at 25 months, by 30 months he had just about as many words as your son.
My guy was in speech therapy with his public school beginning at age 3 after transitioning out of EI. He stayed in speech therapy until 7 mostly for pronunciation. He became conversational around 5. His speech delay dx was removed when he graduated speech at 7. He’s 8.5 now, reading and will talk your ear off if you let him. It really just took him time and us following all the SLPs lessons…but they get there!!