Hi!
I have a young group (14-19months). I have 2 that are pretty good talkers so far (maybe 20 and 50 words) but still just single words.
My oldest is almost 20 months and is not a talker at all. She is very physical and I haven't been worried. She communicates, she is very social, very involved etc. She just doesn't talk. She has 4 words, including mom and dad. She communicated through grunts. Endless grunts.
At what point to I start to really push her moving beyond grunts (as in ignoring her grunts until she tries more words, telling her I can't understand her etc).
I don't want to push her and punish her for not having words but I can't help that feel she doesn't try to have words because she effectively communicates through grunts. Since she makes herself understood with actions and grunts she gets the responses she wants without having to try a word.
Any thoughts? She is happy and loves it here...but she definitely would have been better with an older group that was using sentences etc to push her along!