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Hi there.. Wow.. I just went through this.Its sounds just like my daughter. She is now 3 years old (turned 3 Apr 23rd) and talking very well(sometimes too much-haha) and sings up a storm..But her talking (clear) didn't start until about 2-3 months before she turned 3..It gradually was getting better between ages 2-3, but a lot of progress aprx 3 months before turning 3. I started worrying about the same time as you are now..I talked to the doctor and he told me that she should be saying more but my daughter was also very early walking and great at physical things, so maybe she is mastering one thing at a time.. The doctor told me that as long as she is understanding me and following simple comands, then she is ok..But at 18-19 months I was still worrying so he referred me to a program called TOTE (teaching our tots early)..Its a state funded early intervention program. The teacher comes out to your house and does an evaluation, then tells you whether they quality or not..Well they came to our home at 19 months and they said that my daughter did NOT qualify..But they would do another evaluation at 24 months. She came back at 24 months and said YES she does quality now because of "expressive language" delay. If you qualify teachers come out to your home for 1 hour 2 days a week and work with your child and show you things to do with them, etc. Our teacher was great with my daughter (Jannet Low). This program is through the Woodhaven school district, but services a pretty large area (we live in Allen Park)..She recently had a final evaluation and they said she is definitely in the normal range of language now and some of her other scores were even in the 4 yr range..They discharged her from the program and gave her tons of gifts(books,leap pad, etc)-Quite nice!! Anyway, I think it helped but she would have came around on her own..So I do recommend trying that if it will make you feel better. My issue was that my daugher only said a few things clear and then the rest literally sounded like Chinese! lol She was get into quite serious (and amusing) stories but I couldn't understand a word.. But I knew she understood everything. Another thing that helped her A LOT was that she started day care in January this year and is around other kids her age. Prior to that it was just me and my husband with her since we worked opposite shifts. If you'd like to talk more feel free to contact me ____@____.com I'm in a rush now, I'm off to pick her up from day care.. Good Luck. She'll be just fine though (: Some kids just take it all in for a while and they'll start talking "english" when they feel like it (: (: