Speech delay

I have had those problems with Sophie. But she had glue ear, so it's not the same issue I don't think.

But they didn't bother doing anything about it til she was nearly at school, which sucked for her.

In Sophie's case, things didn't get better for years. But she has developmental delays, due to the glue ear.

Sounds like he's all good on the hearing front and hopefully it's only his speech that is delayed, as that can be fixed at least.

Speech therapy definitely helps and they pick up things pretty fast around 2+yrs.

Oh, I just thought of something else Sharlene, being he's currently an only child. And Sophie used to be as well.

Sometimes, they do learn they can get what they want without using words and they can be a bit lazy and not use their speech, as they know ways to communicate their needs to you, without vocalizing them. Like you describe, he has a great understanding of things. So he's definitely intelligent. And intelligent children do, knowingly do this.

Have you tried encouraging him to use the appropriate word/words, before getting what he desires?

I had this problem big time with Sophie. As she knew I'd give her what she wanted, without the use of words. And Kindy teachers would often tell me, she knows the words, she just chooses not to use them.

I was a tad concerned with DD's speech at 20 mths only after a thread like this popped up however and said they should have so many words. At 18mths I think DD barely said anything, mummy, daddy, where is she? (random random sentence she picked up lol) and a few more words but not consistently. Since she turned 2 she has picked up so many words its unbelievable. We gave her a leaptop for her 2nd birthday and in the last month or so has started repeating the words on that and being able to point to animals and say what they are. Numbers she can count to 9 but misses 5 out. I wouldn't stress at about 2 they start coming to their own and chatting away now we can't shut her up! For awhile now if she has had a word and doesn't use it then we tell her to use her words. I hate having ha uh arguments with her where she points and ha uh when I know perfectly well she can say yoghurt please, or cookie please etc

Shelt your daughter sounds to me to be doing similar to what DP's nephew was like and occasionaly still is. His brain was working so fast that he was having trouble getting his sentences out and would stutter a lot. It was so hard not to jump in and finish his sentences