how late is too late....about children learning how to talk

Hi dear! I believe that every child has its style of learning and every child takes his own time to learn and speak. Every child develops in his own unique way, even two siblings behave different, when they are one year old. Some are very fast in it and they start speaking at an early age of one and a half years and some start speaking after two and half years' time. There cannot be any uniformity in it and parents should not worry unnecessarily on this account.

There isn't really a time that would be considered too late for a child to start talking... it just depends on the situation and the environment that the child is in... but i would say that if the baby doesnt start picking up on words soon you may want to take them to a specialist

Hello, I have two children and they both are girls. One is 4 year old now and another one is 17 months. Guess what? my first daughter know how to talk when she is 3, that was not full sentence yet... just 3years and 6 months, she starts talking pretty good. But my second daughter know how to walk at age 1 and now she is talking as well... (I speak two languages and they both do the same) my second daughter knows very simple words in both languages. Children grown up in different way, sometimes they are late and sometime they are early so tell your friend not to worry about. She will talk when it is time. If this is her first daughter then it might take a lot of time for her to do thing around cuz she is the only one... whenever your friend has the second one, watch he/she will pick up so fast than you think and that's what happen to my kids now.

maybe the child just dosen't have anything to say....My grand daughter didn't say much until she wanted to. No she talks up a storm. But she still has her days that she just don't say anything. and she is 3 years old. But my daughter could carry on a complet conversation when she was 2. My husband said don't worry about the grand daughter. she will talk when she has something to say. But she was taking everything in..

Hi Roni, Tell friend tha children are very clever really, they will speak when they want to and, they take everything in and not to worry, I was a lter talker and now you can't shut me up, lol. Tamara

Hello, I have to say that it all depends on the child, and after reading your disscussion post, that just shines more light on the fact that, it all depends on the child, just like my son did not start walking untill he was two years old, now you can get him to stop running, he do not even run, and my husband and I could not wait untill he started walking, well not now because we are the ones that has, to run and catch him when he runs away from us Happy My Lotting!

I live with my daughter and her three sons and the youngest boy was three going on four before he started saying simple words. I know this isn't the case for everyone but it turns out that he is on the autism spectrum. He is four now and can say some very simple sentences but he is no where near the level of speech that he should be. We're trying to get him into special ed pre-school to see if they can help but its a long drawn out process that's taken us more than a year and we still aren't finished! But I agree that we should not compare children with other children because everyone is different.

Kids develop in their own pace... i have a friend whose daughter started only to talk at the age of 4... they even thought she was deaf and mute and even took her to a speech therapist... but then... she grew up to be an honor student and is now a registered nurse... My daughter started talking at the age of 1 but walked on her own when she was like 17 months old... quite late in my family where most kids walk even before they turn 1...

I should also say that it depends on the child. I have kids and all of them, as I can remember, started talking short words like "dada", "dede", "mama", etc. at age one. I also know some kids who started talking only when they went to school or months earlier that age. I guess it would help kids to talk early if parents are talkative like my wife. she usually talk to our babies, talks a lot of non sense just to try to communicate with them, starting at day 1.

Hi there, well i guess it depends on the child. My daughter was less than 2 years old and she can speak many words even when she was less than 1 year old. So now that she will be turning 2 years old she can say many words already. I have a nephew who was turning 3 this October, he can't speak much unlike my daughter. But he can recognized many things already, he can write abc's, 1,2,3's and also shapes and colors but the problem is he can speak that much. Maybe there were child who speak late but it doesnt mean there is problem with them. But for me if child is 5 years old is really a late one already. ANyway, i hope i can make sense here, keep on mylotting

Hi roni. Kids are different. If your friend's child is merely three, I think there is nothing to worry about. My son Alvin only started talking lately; he is turning three in october. My MIL thought he was already too late to start talking that she was so worried about him. Now that he started talking, nobody can stop him anymore. He is such a chatterbox. Amazingly, he is also starting to spell, not simple words, but words that even kindergarten kids might find difficult to spell (like rocket, guitar, cookie, pie, horn, sheep, slide etc.). Kids are all different. We just need to be patient with them. Tell your friend to talk to her child straight - not baby talk; let her child get more exposed to interactive television programs for kids. It also helps a lot that a parent watches with the kid and talk about the program with the kid.

u r right it can take app 4years for kids to learn to talk , my son is 2Y old and can speak only words , so it differ from child to child tel her not to worry

Well i think two years old is late . Most of children around here just begin to speak when they are 1 year old. I don't know when my son will speak . But many people told me that their children began to speak some simple words like " Dad, Mummy" when they were just 8 or 9 months old . Now my son is half a year old and i speak to him as much as i can in order to make him speak earlier.

I can understand and appreciate the "don't worry about it" responses as I tend to be a laid back, mellow parent. I however have a different perspective: I have a nonverbal 7 year old daughter. I would ALWAYS advise any parent who is concerned about any aspect of their child's development to have them screened for Early Intervention Services. Taking your child to speech therapy might seem sad or scary for some parents, but for the kiddo it's just like play time! And you can catch them up a lot faster when they are little and the issue is identified early. That way they can interact with their peers when they start school and so-forth. Then there will be no or at least less difficulties when social awareness starts. So the 3 year old isn't speaking much, parents are concerned. That should be the biggest indicator: the parents. Follow your gut instinct and get your baby some help. Again, it's fun for the child and will help them before the issue becomes a problem.