Talia talks
October 29th, 2008
Words Talia understands and uses in a way that we can understand (approximate pronunciation in brackets):
- cat (tat) - July 08 (also refers to other objects/animals other than dog),
- dog (woo woo) - Aug 08
- ball/balloon (boo) - Aug/Sept 08 (also refers to bubbles)
- duck (dut) - Sept 08
- book (boo’)
- cake (gak)
- shut
- flower (fuff)
- shoes (shzz)
- fish (vish)
- yes/OK (okay) - prior to 13 Oct
- butterfly (fuff/fye)
- bye bye (ba ba) - 16 Oct
- daddy - 16 Oct
- bee - 2? Oct
- sheep (baa) - 2? Oct
- bird
- teddy
- swing (shwee)
- miouw (wow) - 29 Oct
- hat (at) - 29 Oct
Words she understands as at 29 October 2008 (16 months 1 week corrected) include all of the above plus: mouse, boat, sun, moon, star, rainbow, ant, door, TV, Pooh, snugglebunny, bath, frog, lion, elephant, eat, drink, milk, nutrigrain, toast, up, nose, eyes, toes, socks, beatle, pram, bus, slide, Maisy, heart, starfish, bucket, crocodile, tree, umbrella, clap - and a whole lot more I’m quite sure!
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Words she has started to say during November
star (tar), heart (art), bike, up, rainbow (bow), pig (pik), kite, dog, boat, nose, car, moo, owl
Words she understands include all of the above plus: egg, octopus, triangle, circle, snail, truck, monkey, aeroplane, socks …
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New words in December:
bag, bowl, two (in fact 2 - 10, some better than others), Pooh, tree, elephant (elf or erf), quack, neigh, spoon (spoo), fork, knife, brm brm (boo boo), tweet (twee), chook, buck buck, wow, more, face, hair, tail, bib, apple, milk, eyes, bear, pat-a-cake (packache), e-i-e-i-o, la-de-da-de-da (ya ya ya)
Words she understands include all of the above plus: pour, toes, foot, butter, panda, zebra, giraffe, teeth…
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In mid January 2009, Talia visited a speech pathologist (a referral from the previous May!) and at that time had a productive vocabulary of about 100 words.
Since then she had continued to expand her vocabulary at a rate of knots, and I no longer try to keep track of the words she knows and says.
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At the time of her 2nd birthday (21 months corrected) in March 2009, she was able to make many simple 2 word sentences, and occasional 3-4 word sentences. The longest I have heard so far is “roose go neck wabbit” (=the rooster goes next to the rabbit) when placing pieces in a puzzle.
Adjectives she uses accurately (pronunciation not always clear): big, small, long, heavy, light, red
She names songs eg star song (twinkle twinkle), farm song (Old McDonald) and books eg Maisy book, frog book as she sees/hears them or if she wants them.
As I pointed out many objects and said “look Talia, a cat/a dog/a tree etc” she puts “a” in front of lots of words - especially when calling me - “a mum”. Her typical requests include “a mum draw”, “a mum read”, “a mum choo choo” (= Mum I want you to play with trains)
She has just started to say “went” as in “went zoo”, “went park”
She can count 1-13 plus 16, 18-20.
Occasionally she will say “Ta-ya” for her name.
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