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Its actually quite common. Our peditrician had advised us to wait until DS had been home and hearing English for a significant amount of time but not much past his second birthday if his speech was still so limited. We had him evaluated by Early Intervention at 20 months (11 months home) when he had less than 10 words and everything else in the world was a Ba (and he would not try to imitate any other sounds and he made lots of back of throat noises in babbling). The speech therapist found him to be at 12 months level for speech (the general developmental therapist found him right on age track). We started speech therapy through EI at 21 months and it took 4 months of very slow but steady progress and then starting at 25 months something clicked and he got it. At 27 months he is still a little behind (and still getting therapy - we have been approved for services through year end) but almost caught up - and no more funny throat noises. Its possible he would have clicked without the therapy but that certainly did not hurt (and I believe it really was beneficial at some level). Its amazing to come home every day and hear what he learned (ie last night I asked "what did you have for dinner" and he said "food". So I asked "what kind of food" and he said with a big grin "pizza mama"). He is putting together 2 words but that is the area that the therapist is having us focus on now - longer sentences/expressions. So, bottom line, have her evaluated and give her every opportunity to be successful but again its common and she is probably going to be fine regardless. Good luck!