Speech in 3 year old

[mommyofgb]

My 3 year old dd has a slow go of it in the speech/language dept. She didn't really start speaking in sentences until close to 2.5 and now at newly 3, her speech is progressing, but it seems she is having trouble getting her thoughts out. For instance, a typical sentence where she is struggling to get her point across can go something like this: ''Daddy, we went to the mall and saw Santa because I saw Santa and Josh played with me and the kids in the boat because the kids in the boat.'' I always understand her since I am with her all day, but anyone else would have little to no clue what she is trying to get at. I'd say that as her sentences have gotten longer in length and her vocabulary has increased that her sentences are becoming harder to understand. She just ran in her saying ''Daddy ate all the rollup and me.''  Again, I know she meant ''Daddy and I ate all the roll-up.'' Is this age appropriate?

[MountainMamaGC]

My daughter went through a similar phase with her speech. I think its normal.

[Emmeline II]

That seems normal to me, though you could always get an eval with an ST just to be sure. My ds' speech developed in the latter normal range and because it was considered "normal" I didn't consider an ST eval--but an eval may have have gotten his other issues (which did involve some minor articulation issues and pragmatics problems) flagged earlier.