What are the speech milestones for toddlers from 1 to 2 years old?
From one to two years of age a lot of things happen. From years one to two with speech, the first half of the year is about understanding, and the second half of the year it’s about speaking. Thus speech is broken up into expressive language, which are the words we speak, and receptive language, which is what we understand. In all children, especially girls, understanding, or receptive language, comes much faster than what we say. This is true even past two years of age. The reason why children have temper tantrums and get upset is because they always understand much more than they can express to you. So from 12 months to 15 months your child may gain 3 to 5 words. From 15 months to 18 months they may gain another 5 to 10 words. They may only have 10 to 20 words by 18 months as far as speech is concerned, but I would expect that by 15 to 18 months they understand everything; that’s what parents tell me. I tell them to go get their shoes and they bring them to me. I say, look at the lig
