Bilingual toddler speech delay?
Hi everyone. My bub is 20 months old and we have been raising her bilingual (my husband and I speak English, and grandparents who she sees almost daily speak my mother tongue). I've noticed that her speech seems to be a bit delayed - she is very good at communicating what she wants by babbling and hand signals, understands most instructions, says about 15 words, and will repeat words when I say them. But overall she is constantly babbling but not using many words. She doesn't say mama often either. I have been trying to encourage her speech, we read lots of books and do activities but so far doesn't seem to be working. Not sure if this is normal for toddlers that are raised bilingual or if I should look into a speech therapist?
u/smilly1 — 12 days ago