Two Year Old Suddenly Changing Speech Pattern

This adventuresome 2-yr-old sounds like he has an awesome mom!

I have three boys who have all gone through late speech development. One of the things I tried was, like the person said in the previous response, to repeat the word back at him with the word correctly pronounced. Also, I would try something like "I don't understand what you want. Are you trying to say you want to play?" and ask him to attempt to say his sentence again. Whether or not he says the word correctly the second time, give him some positive reply, like "I bet what you want is to go play".

With this approach I tried to not automatically accept his mispronounciation. My youngest started leaving off the last consonant of a bunch of words (milk was pronounced mil, for instance) and I realized that I was responding as if that was acceptable. My son didn't mind repeating what he was trying to say and, gradually, improved quite nicely.

Good luck!

I think it's just a phase. You shouldn't tell him he is wrong and correct him, but you can repeat what he said in the correct way. So, let's say he says "Mommia, can you get me a drink?". I would say "sure, Mommy can get a drink for you, what would you like to drink?". I would just find a way to repeat what he said in the correct way so that he can hear it and it will be reinforced. It's probably just something fun and interesting for him right now. I wouldn't put too much focus on it or it may last even longer! :-)

Not a worry! My son did the same thing (he added "ony" so he said momony and dadony and nanony etc. It ended fairly quickly with no problems.

Sounds like he is exploring language and sounds.. Just do as the previous posters said and repeat what he says, but correctly. Do not make a big deal out of it..

Does he enjoy singing.. Could be a good time to find songs on CD that you 3 can belt out together..