when did your child start talking???

[Guest guest]

Hello all

I vowed never to look at any developmental milestone charts anymore, but

I did anyway and as expected, I'm left with the nagging question when

the he** is going to start talking???

I had a look at DS authority Pueschels chart where it says that children

with DS start talking in short sentences around 24 months on average,

ranging from 18 to 46 months (children without DS: 21 on average/ranging

from 14 to 32 months). (turning four next Thursday) is nowhere

near that; he uses a few single words and some signs and that's just

about it. Ok, so he might just be one of the very slow ones and a boy

on top of it, but what perplexes me is the fact that of all kids with DS

we have gotten to know during the last 4 years - which amounts to quite

a big bunch - there is only ONE (a boy!) who started to speak 2-3 word

sentences before he turned three which is why we call him the little

profesor :-) So that makes me question the accuracy of Pueschels time frame.

How old was your child with DS when he or she started to talk?

/Switzerland