Repeating Last Consonant Sounds at 18 Months?

He may be playing with sounds and doing it deliberately. If he doesn't do it constantly and it get's better I wouldn't worry.

My daughter stuttered from 2-6 and ocassionally still does. I've had her evaluated by speech several times and she doesn't do it at school only around me when I'm rushing her or she's nervous. Its just a nervous thing for her.

I was told to Slooooooooow down, get to eye level with my daughter and give her eye contact. That works really well for us.

See if he does it around other's when your gone.

Typcially from what I've heard it's hard to get kids into speech even for a evaluation til they start school. And at 2 years old when they are still learning unless it's super serious they won't touch them.

My son did that when he was learning to talk. I just assumed it was a tic because I have tics and I do it, mostly with the Ks. I usually do it in my head, so no one even knows I'm doing it. A lot of kids have tics that come and go; it's usually totally normal.

Has he watched something recently that has that on it? Doesn't Tigger do that sometimes? It seems like every time my kids start something like that it's when they've seen it on TV.
J.
Mom to 4 going on 5.

My little girl did almost the same thing at the same age -- around the time that she started talking a lot. I was so worried but talked to the speech pathologist who works at my school and she said it is normal -- brain is going faster than the mouth can. Doesn't hurt to ask the doctor though!

I think kids are prone to experiment with sounds as they're learning to talk. My son went through stages of stuttering at certain developmental points. His ECFE teachers called it "functional dysfluency," which is basically temporary stuttering that happens when they're mouths can't keep up with their brains. They referred to it as "ferarri brain with a matchbox mouth." In other words, at this age, it will likely pass.