Let me just say, I'm not really worried about this too much but I figured I'd ask just to be on the safe side.
DD's been "speaking" for about 6 months now. However, she'll only say words a handful of times and then not use them again. She can definitely understand them and will respond through gestures/signing, etc. but she rarely if ever uses actually language to communicate. For instance, when sitting on the potty she's said "done" a couple of times and then never said it again. We've counted and she's said (within the past 6 months) 27 words and knows 2 letters but we can go days without her using any of them or at most she'll say "hi", "mamamama", and occasionally "that". She's just started saying "yeah" regularly but not always in context, more when she's excited about something.
I know some of our other friends who have kids have said that they've seen the same thing but that was normally when their kids just started talking... not necessarily after months of it so I wanted to check if this is normal? I remember reading once that it could be a sign of autism if a kid speaks and then stops speaking but I didn't know if there was any problems when a kid says words but then doesn't say them again (but later on says new words).
DD's been "speaking" for about 6 months now. However, she'll only say words a handful of times and then not use them again. She can definitely understand them and will respond through gestures/signing, etc. but she rarely if ever uses actually language to communicate. For instance, when sitting on the potty she's said "done" a couple of times and then never said it again. We've counted and she's said (within the past 6 months) 27 words and knows 2 letters but we can go days without her using any of them or at most she'll say "hi", "mamamama", and occasionally "that". She's just started saying "yeah" regularly but not always in context, more when she's excited about something.
I know some of our other friends who have kids have said that they've seen the same thing but that was normally when their kids just started talking... not necessarily after months of it so I wanted to check if this is normal? I remember reading once that it could be a sign of autism if a kid speaks and then stops speaking but I didn't know if there was any problems when a kid says words but then doesn't say them again (but later on says new words).
Lina does that too.
Last night he said "juice!" very clear, loud, precise. When we got excited and tried to prompt him to say it again, he just looked at us like we were nuts. 
