Hello group
It's been a long time since I've been on here so hope all are well.
I am currently on maternity leave with my 9 month old baby and I have a specific question about babbling that I can't find an answer to despite accessing a number of articles.
A friend (also an SLT) with an older baby is concerned that her baby is producing limited front stops and nasals in babble at the age of 11 months.
Hx:
Uncomplicated pregnancy, forceps birth, Apgar at birth 6, 9 at 5 mins, good birthweight on large side (3.7kg), social smile at 4-6 weeks, cooing (agu, ga, bu etc) on time, other aspects of development (reaching, grasping, rolling, sitting, crawling) achieved on time.
Comprehension:
Responds to name, responds to labels in the environment e.g. if hears 'no' in conversation shakes head, looks in the direction of named objects e.g. book, ball, reaches for familiar items in context e.g. teddy, responds to 'clap hands', 'wave bye bye'. Gets excited when certain words used e.g. 'music', 'park' etc
Communication:
Reach and show gesture, responsive smile, laugh, used contact and distal points from early stage approx 8 months, protest gestures (pushing away items) with eye gaze, reach and show gesture with eye gaze ,follows gaze and point.
Babble:
reduplicated strings of babababa since 7 months and silent 'jaw wag' babble but predominantly cv, cvcc and cvcvcvcv sequences with /g/, /w/ and /y/ e.g. bu, gaga, wawa, yaya, gagagagaga, wawawawa and yayayaya. Occasional bug, bugu. Appears to never have done /m/ or /d/ babbles. Quite a lot of marginal babbling but I know that these can continue after the onset of more advanced forms, it's a matter of proportion?
Is this a problem? He's only 11 months, so neither of us really know.. I haven't really dealt with children under 18 months ever, and usually not really seen any child under 22 months for more than screening and assessment. I've been searching in the literature and I can see that late onset of canonical babbling is a potential issue but the babababa wasn't late really.. I can't access the Stoel-Gammon 1989 article about the two late talkers who had limited repertoires and one of whom had an unusual sound preference so I don't know what constitutes an unusual sound preference in babble. Everything I've read said that /m/ and /d/ are pretty universally among the first sounds, with late talkers and typically developing populations but I have no idea if this is just a normal variation or if there's something to be concerned about?
Many thanks for any thoughts,
Fiona
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