Henry says

On March 4th when we saw had Henry's speech evaluation, he had about 5 words - Mom, bye-bye, yeah, uh-huh (yes), and uh-uh (no). The evaluation was interesting, using play and pictures to evaluate what he understands. His "receptive" language (what he understands) was assessed at the 94th percentile, or an "age equivalent" of 2 years 4 months (he was 22 months at the appointment). His "expressive" language (what he says) was at the 8th percentile, an age-equivalent of 15 months. The report we were sent then helpfully averages the two scores to the 53rd percentile and an age-equivalent of 21 months. The therapist and I talked about what our goals for speech therapy would be - getting Henry's vocabulary to several dozen words. Mostly "speech therapy" consists of being extra excited when the kid talks and trying to get Henry to play with sounds and eventually form words.

Since then he's been picking up words pretty fast - I think if there's much of a waiting list for speech therapy we may have achieved the goal. He's added the following words:

(last week)
yes (with a good "s" on the end)
no
why
eye
up

(this week)
on
off
shoe
toe

Today, he may have said, "Shoe off" to me. I think that counts as a two-word phrase in the language development sense. Usually kids start to put words together when their spoken vocabulary reaches around 50 words, which usually happens around age two. I'll have to pay close attention to see if he's combining words - he doesn't have that many to choose from, but it's interesting to think that he might be combining when his vocabulary is still so small.