A toddler is typically children aged one to three years. This period is very important for children to meet development milestones eg. they learn to speak, they learn to behave, they learn to walk/run etc, they learn to socialize etc.
Among these milestones speech development is one of the major milestones to be achieved by child. While there is no universal standard i.e some children might speak with some delay while other children may speak early. However if there is an exceptional delay in speech it indicates need of intervention.
Most of the speech is developed by age of three, i.e children aged one to two years usually start speaking simple words eg. they may speak simple words eg. mama , papa etc. and they usually start combining simple words or understand words more clearly by age of two. By age of three children speech is developed eg. parents can talk to child, children understand most of the words etc. however complete or full speech development may take another one or two years and often developed during education and socialization of child.
One of the easiest way to find out if your child is achieving speech milestone is to compare them with children of similar age. If you believe your child is speaking less words or difficulty in making sentences or difficulty in understanding sentences, its worth check with speech therapist one.
We have Hope center for Speech therapy and Autism offers speech therapy for toddlers. We offer free assessment which helps you to understand condition of your child. We have experienced speech therapist in Ludhiana , Jalandhar Amritsar and various cities of punjab.