I'm not sure if our twins are behind in speech. The words they say the most are "Mama, Dada, bye-bye, and pee-pee". Tavi has started to say "doggie" though at times it sounds garbled and other times clear. The other words they've had have been one-offs or close to that like Tora said "doll" once when I said "doll" and never again said it. Tavi sometimes says "nana" for banana but infrequent. It sounds like maybe they are ok and this source. Twins tend to have speech delays compared to singletons so it's something I'm also trying to pay attention to, but I think they're ok even at 17 months. A child at playgroup definitely far outpaces our children on speech, but her mom said that her daughter does not problem solve very well like she can't put Legos together or build towers with them. That's something our children can do very well so I think their strength is more fine/gross motor skills - and much of the questionnaires we've done to date with our pediatrician have shown that that's their strengths and communication has always been
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Birth to Three should be available in your community. I think 18 months or 2 years is a more typical age for referral, but someone told me our pediatrician does a lot of referrals for speech delay because his boys (who I think are twins) had a speech delay. If you are not concerned and your pediatrician is not concerned, your kids are probably fine. Freya is probably fine too, but I am just more comfortable following the pediatrician's advice and exploring our options, since the cost is minimal and the therapy non-invasive, convenient, and pleasant for Freya.
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One hour a day of screen time does not sound like that much to me. Totally reasonable.
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