Is this normal?

[babymakes4]

Owen still jibbers a lot when he talks. He says a lot of words and short phrases that most people can understand. Dh understands the one word phrases like "truck" "car" "potty" and the short phrases like "What the heck?" and "where's my cup"

However when it comes to more than a few words and Owen begins to speak about somthing he is doing or something he wants, most people have a hard time understanding him. He does speak in sentences, it's just kinda jumbled I guess.

I can understand him pretty much 100% of the time, jibberish and all. Owen gets frustrated when dh can't understand him and resorts to screaming, which isn't helping anyone, especially Owen because sometimes not being understood upsets him and sometimes causes a melt down. It's hard.

Is it normal for him to be speaking a lot of jibberish still? He is 2 1/2.

[Earthmama]

I think it's absolutely normal. My 3 year old still occasionally sounds jibberishy to others.

[Sputterduck]

I think it's still normal at 2.

[Teresa64]

People told me at3 that my son had speech problems because he talked so fast it sounded like jibberish. He is 5 with no problems. I have seen kids not say more then 3 words until they are 3. All kids are different. I wouldn't worry.

[babymakes4]

I just wish there were a way to make it easier for dh to understand him. Like today Owen told dh that he wanted a popscicle He calls them "uchhues" (I don't know why) Anyhow, dh had no clue what he was saying, and I was in the shower. By the time I got out here, Owen was quite visibly upset and crying. I knew exactly what he wanted and dh felt so bad.

I think him having his leg in thei cast thing is making it harder, normally he would run to the fridge and then dh could lift him up and let him show him what he wants. But he is still refusing to use that leg at all, so he is pretty stationary at the moment :(

[Teresa64]

I just wish there were a way to make it easier for dh to understand him. Like today Owen told dh that he wanted a popscicle He calls them "uchhues" (I don't know why) Anyhow, dh had no clue what he was saying, and I was in the shower. By the time I got out here, Owen was quite visibly upset and crying. I knew exactly what he wanted and dh felt so bad.

I think him having his leg in thei cast thing is making it harder, normally he would run to the fridge and then dh could lift him up and let him show him what he wants. But he is still refusing to use that leg at all, so he is pretty stationary at the moment :(

Oh I remember those days. David used to make up his own words for things. My mom called me one day and asked me what "burritoes" were. David wanted one from his Halloween bag and she couldn't figure out waht they were. That was his word for Twix...

[Joyto5]

Aww. Our Kyle does that to. The only reason we know what he's saying is because we know what each sound means. There are still a few words and phrases we are trying to figure out.. Like what the heck does "untiono moons" mean. *Shrug*

One thing that's really helped with Kyle, so he won't have melt downs when we don't understand him is "Show me". We ask him to show us what it is he's talking about. Helps curb the melt down extremely well!

All the rest of our children enunciated very well and very early. This is a new experience for us.

[PSMommy]

Parker talks ALOT of jibberish..... she is 2 1/2 also.

I am concerend some days too. But she was a very late talker, her ped didnt think anything of it.

[jessiehannan]

Gabe still talks gibberish alot and he just turned 3. I have him show me what it is he wants, then tell him the word for it. He can speak and can speak clearly, and in sentences. I just have to get him pretty angry so that he wants to speak. Wha really helped me not worry with Gabe, was an article that said that even if he doesn't use words, he does know them. He just wants to make sure that he has the word right before he uses it. Once he gets comfortable with thinking the word, he will start saying the word.

[newmominct]

I've read that most people who are considered geniuses, like Einstein for one , are late talkers. :)

[winnie]

"Show me" worked wonders to help Tyler communicate with us. He did have a speech delay but trying to figure out some days was miserable.

We made a "show me" book. I took pictures of all the things I knew he said, and pictures of all the things we couldn't figure out but he showed us. Under each picture I wrote what sound he made and what he did. That really helped DH understand what he wanted. Most often Tyler would point to the picture and tell us what he wanted.

He is now 5 and still goes to therapy, but we can really have long conversations and meet all of his needs now verbally.

[Tweet]

I likely wouldn't worry since he has a growing vocabulary and can speak in short sentences. If at any time you still feel concerned, though, don't hesitate to call for a speech eval by Early Intervention.

[kohlby]

Agree- VERY normal for a 2 year old. My son does have a speech delay in pronounciation only. His vocabulary was leaps and bounds ahead though, which caused me to wait to get him evaluated until he was was 3.5. What I did was look for progress. There was no progress between 3-3.5, which is why I got him evaluated. He sees a speech therapist now.

My daughter is 2.5 and is very advanced in vocabulary and grammar, but I can't understand some things she says. However, others can understand some of what she says, which they couldn't with DS at 2.5. DS's speech therapist has heard DD ramble on and mentioned that it definately didn't sound like DD was going to need speech therapy. I do know other 2.5 year olds with crystal clear speech. I figure that DD's articulation is likely simply average.