Snow - posted on 06/29/2016 ( 6 moms have responded )
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At about 16 months old my daughter started forming complex, grammatically correct sentences up to 10 words long; things like "that's my bed, I sleep in there", I like the fan, it goes around and around", "and then I will get down", "I want to go outside and play on the slide". Obviously this started to creep me out a bit, so I did some research and it seems to be unusual. Should I be concerned about some sort of autism spectrum disorder? She has always been interested in talking; saying about 20-30 words by 9 months, along with her first 2 word sentence, and knowing the difference between "I" and "you", but lately I've been becoming a bit concerned. I'm not sure how many words she says at present, as I stopped counting at 10.5 months when she knew about 80, but I would estimate several thousand. I would have to say that she learns roughly 10-20 words a day. Any thoughts as to whether I should be concerned, or am I just being paranoid? Has anyone else a similar experience?
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Ev - posted on 06/29/2016
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My daughter was like that at a young age under 1 year talking single words and knowing animal sounds. Then as she grew she added words quickly. By the age of two she was thought to be five years old because she talked like a five year old. It is unusual for a child to master words quickly at young ages but my daughter was never diagnosed with any autism disorder of any kind. She was around adults a lot of her young life and so she learned to talk faster than most her age. The only kids she hung out with up to the age of two really were her older cousins and the youngest of those two was still 7 years older than her. If you want to evaluate her go ahead but she sounds quite normal to me just a good talker is all.