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My daughter just turned 18 months. She barely talks - only says mama, papa and kaka (means she wants to the bathroom). She says meow and woof and moo for the respective animals, but that's it. She has been saying these words since she was 8 months old. She made quite a significant progress in other areas - gross motor skills- she's been walking since 10 months, running at 12, started jumping now. She also knows her letters and numbers (1-10). We put together the map of usa - she knows all the states; continents, planets, countries of south america, she shows about 30 US presidents on her placemat ( all done through pointing when asked). She puts together 8-piece puzzles working on 12-pieces at the moment. We started LR about a month ago and she's been showing lots of progress there - she sight-reads some words and started pointing to the words correctly in70% of cases when we do the "games" part. We also do LMusician and she loves it, claps hands, shows a couple of notes on the piano. She will point to the correct composer when i put on classical music familiar to her.So I have been very pleased with her progress aside from lack of talking. Her pediatrician is not concerned, she shows great understanding of her surroundings and when she is asked to do things. She stays home with my mom, who was a kindergarten teacher, so she constantly talks to her, pointing to the objects. We are primarily speaking Russian at home, but we teach her in both English and Russian. I also read to her in English every night. She can pronounce a lot of sounds - when she points to the letters - ie F, H, R, V, B, L, T that she doesn use in her speech, she primarily says "pa", "ma", "ka" for objects starting with respective letters, my husband/my mom/ myself can figure out what she wants. She also loves "Baby signing time" and has been watching it for the past 4 months and know probably over 100 signs- she rarely uses them though as she can get her point across through her syllables/ pointing etc. At times I just feel like she doesn't want to try as she can get her point across, but we started being more firm - when she points to something we'd say - what is it? what do you want? She loves to draw and spends some time every day drawing with crayons/ doodler/ watering in the mellisa @doug book. I have been trying to introduce more activities to her for her fingers - playdough, lacing etc. I honestly am not sure what else I can do. My mom has been saying that she doesn't talk because we show her "Baby signing time" and the letters on the computer. I and my husband disagree with her. I definitely plan to continue doing these activities with her, but I can't wait when she starts talking! I would appreciate any suggestions on how to get her talking! TIA
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