When did your child start talking?

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Coming up to four and not 'talking yet. Might get a day where he says one or two individual words crystal clear but in an odd tone.
But it's totally random a bit like him, bless the little guy.

My Aspie (now 7) spoke clear as a bell at 6 months of age, and hasn't stopped since, except to sleep His little brother is now 14 months and I suspect he'll be delayed in speech (not in anything else) as he is still only pointing and yelling, making baby sounds, rarely does dada or mama (although he can) but does enjoy yelling his version of "dog!" ("dah!) everytime he seed one

I'm considering my little speech delayed fellow to be God's way of giving me a break, after 7 years of my profusely verbal little fellow. They are a nice yin and yang.

My son didn't start speaking clearly OR in sentences until shortly after his third birthday. Before that, he had very few words -- unless he was doing the echolalia thing (which was often). Now, his speech is more like that of perhaps a 2.5-year-old. He can convey his needs, narrate what's going on, or monologue about trains or diggers, but very seldom does he try to ask questions or have any kind of conversation with people. He still does a lot of echolalia. When I'm telling him bedtime stories, it's like I'm hearing myself tell it on a 2-second delay, word for word. Since I make them up as I go, it's pretty amazing to me that he can hear and repeat what I'm saying, rapid-fire, just a second or two behind me. His diction isn't the greatest, which is why he's been referred for ST, his voice is quite loud and sometimes his tone is a bit odd, and he sounds a little French sometimes because he says "de" instead of "for," For instance, he often insists he wants "oatmeal de breakfast" or that his homework letter is "J de James." As for first words, I know for sure the first was "Mama" and the second was probably either "Dada" or "car." Probably car.

My son was advanced with his language skills, using select words before 1 year (that wasn't on the list, lol, so I voted 1 year).

My son starting talking around 4 years old.

I don't know when I started, but I only spoke to 4 people up to third grade. Regular conversations, but only those four people.

I know I was unusual but I started talking at 4 mo. And started to get my mother in trouble at 5 mo. But my son could point every letter in the alphabet at command but didn’t say a word until he was about 2 and the word he said was NO. OKy Doky

I was four when I started talking and then at age six I started talking correctly and I was easier to understand.

I have five kids and they all spoke around one aside from my 5 year old Autie. My only NT daughter and my Aspie son was speaking in sentences around 10 or 11 months. My oldest 18 year old Aspie daughter had a strange way of speaking...she had little sayings, almost like scripting. She would clutch her chest and say "scare me"!...that was always a family favorite. Also my NT daughter at 13 months walking around with a play phone saying "hello? Pizza hut?....cheese pizza". Both of my boys had and have speech impediments. My oldest grew out of it without speech therapy but my aspie gets speech....and it doesnt stop him from using the giant words. My oldest (early onset bi polar) always preferred adult conversation. His kindergarten teacher told me that when she would joke with one of her aides he would "get it" she said his knowledge and understanding of adult language was amazing.
My Autie had one word around two and half...."Ice". As soon as they started therapy with her two months before her third birthday she was saying several more words and then she started with the echolalia. Now that she is five she does a lot of scripting but has a lot of spontaneous words and can have little conversations with you if you know her well enough. She is reading now and also starting to add numbers.

My Mom doesnt remember if I had a speech delay but I do know that I had a very bad stuttering problem when I was in first and second grade. It was like I would get stuck on a word and couldnt finish. I remember not wanting to talk and getting angry when people finished my sentences.

I've been talking since I was 10months old, and was speaking in full sentences by the time I was a year old.

I also walked at 10mos, taught by mytwin who walked at 7mos.

my son started talking very early, before the age of 1. But I will never forget his first sentance at 20 months "I's got money!" he found some money in our van and was very excited, I don't think he has stopped talking since, lol

I voted 1yr, but my daughter was talking a few months before that. She was talking in meaningful sentences by 1yr.

My son started talking at around 1 1/2, just words or a simple phrases(go Diego go, that kind of thing) but lost all of his speech and hand signs by the time he was 3. He'll be 6 in Nov. and he still isn't speaking or signing. He hums all day. His favorite one is "Eeeee.."

I am not a parent, but I will tell you about some of "my" people:

Oldest brother has some characteristics which could be considered to be Aspergers-like, but I do not think he actually qualifies for a diagnosis. Has nothing that I know of. Anyway, he talked really early and spoke well from an early age. He might have said his first words before the age of one.

I have an AS diagnosis, but that was before I realized I had a speech/language delay. I am getting a complete evaluation this month and qualify for a classic autism diagnosis. I did not speak until after 2 1/2. I quickly learned how to speak in complete sentences (although did not talk frequently). Shortly after my third birthday, I lost language completely, and I had to be retaught how to speak from scratch. I think I could speak again by the time I was 4, but my use of language has always been strange to outsiders.

My nephew who is not diagnosed, but I am convinced he is on the spectrum: today I would definitely say he fits in with the Aspergers diagnosis. He seemed very autistic as a baby: we thought he was deaf. Would not look if you screamed his name, and would only turn his head if you pounded your foot on the floor. He did not like to be held, touched, or played with, and would meltdown if you tried to pick him up or cuddle him. He spoke late, started at age 2. Once he began to speak though, he also began to answer to his name, and cuddling with people. He is brilliant--probably a genius if they ever get him tested (definitely above average anyway), and I am pretty sure he qualifies for a diagnosis of Aspergers.

My daughter started talking around 18 months. A bit late, but not exceptional. She communicated with sounds and pointing, but not words.

She stopped talking at 13 years. That's a good topic for a new thread, but I haven't really come to grips with it. Every month is a bit different so I'm not sure how to describe it.

My son came out with his first words (a short sentence) when he was eight months, two weeks. Then he didn't speak another word of English until he was nearly three and a half... he invented his own language instead, combining sign, mispronounced French, Irish and English. So an apple was ompom, a book was clapping your hands together, then opening them like a book. He was very communicative, and we understood him, and finally one day he just dropped his lingo, and started with sentences again. He used to read out loud in English, from about a year, but as I say wasn't speaking it independantly for ages.

So it's hard to be sure, but I'd guess what he did wouldn't qualify as "speech" till he was three and a half.

My 12 year old was talking by 5 1/2 months. Singing full nursery rhymes and repeating scripts from tv by 12 months. Now he talks non stop, even to himself and the pc .