My 16 month/almost 17 month old does not talk a whole lot.

He *can say words. He just chooses not to. His favorite word is Dada. Of course.

He signs Please, Thank you, Eat, More, Drink, Up, Down, All done, etc but he just won't say them unless we Force him to.

He can roughly say 10-15 words, but he just won't. He doesn't even like saying Mama unless he is upset. Haha.

Anyone else have a toddler like this?

Yes, yes, yes. Ryan is 19 months and doesn't say much either. At 15 months we had to do an evaluation on him 'cause the doctor said he should be saying a lot of words. Personally, I think they will do it when they are ready. Ryan was always "behind" when doing stuff. (ex. sitting up, crawling, walking,). Dh just mentioned that he wished he would start talking. I kind of bit his head off because he's always worried and said that he might be slow in school some day. I just think he'll do it in his own time.

Like I told dh, you can always get him evalualted if you think he needs it.

My daughter didn't say much then either. She knew about the same amount of words, but right after about 18 months her vocab started to grow. She just turned two is actually starting to speak now. I don't think you need to be too worried.

Oh Gosh my youngest baby is 5 now Almost 6 (on 12/14) So I can't really remember if he had a problem ummm like him wanting to talk or saying lots of words I guess words we didn't have an issue with persay but his Pronuncation with them is where we are having Trouble. He's in Kindergarten now and this will be his second yr in Speech Therapy...He had it in Pre~K too

My nephew was like that and he still doesnt like to talk much but he does sign language a lot. One day he will start to jabber on and on.

My kids hardly said anything till age two, Now at five and three they never stop talking!

A friend of mine's little girl used to sign instead of talk and they had to start telling her when she would sign something that they knew she knew the word for "yes sweetie that's good that you know the sign for that but if you would like something you need to use your words". Don't get me wrong they never kept anything from her, they would ask her like 3 times if she could give them the word for what she wanted and if she wouldn't still they would say "ok tell me one more time what it is that you would like" as final attempt and as to not give it to her when they were specifically asking for the words. (if all that made sense)

Maybe you could try something along those lines. I think she was a little older so maybe only asking 1-2 times would be more appropriate...going on too long may frustrate a 17mo old too fast.

My middle daughter Clarity didn't start talking until almost 3. I was beside myself with worry as some of the girls here can tell you! lol.

But when she started talking.. OMG.. it all start happening at once.

Emma is 18 months and says "mom" "mama" "dad" "dada" and "ouch". LOL. That's about it.

I'm so not worried this go round, because she's like Clarity. She's hit all of her other milestones dead on if not early, so I think she's just taking her time and enjoying having others do for her.

Yep, Vaughn was that way too. I was worried that he had a delay or something. Then when he hit close to two he just started spouting out full sentences...mind you they were only 3 words or so, but holy cow! So, I don't worry any more...at least on the talking.

My son was like that,he has a speech delay but has been in preschool and speech class and is talking alot more,some i cant understand,lol but he is getting better.

I talked to my friend that has twin girls last nite and one of her girls talked and the other wasn't and they told her not to even worry until she was 2yrs and then if she still wasn't talking they would look into working with her. I wouldn't worry sounds to me like some kids have the words but they just like to be stubborn.