Are there speech delays in toddlers growing up in multi lingual homes?

Yes. Usually kids start talking later in bilingual homes. It is understandable. Usually they don't need speech therapy

We are a trilingual household. My now 5 year old didn't say anything besides mom and dad until around 2, and she said a few more words. Then bam, around 2.5 she just started talking and hasn't stopped. Now, she is fluent in all three languages, including reading/writing age appropriate, of course. My current toddler does say a few more words than his sister, maybe 10ish at 21 months old. I'm not worried at all. Babies aren't confused they are absorbing everything. I read that most children can learn/understand up to 10 languages. Comparing is so silly and useless. That is why the range for "normal" is so large.

Statistically speaking babies exposed to two languages can have delays but will catch up and are not “confused”. Please do not let your family discourage you because your child will be so much better off with the exposure to the two languages in the future. Here is scientific study about common questions for parents: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6168212/#:~:text=Just%20like%20some%20monolingual%20children,to%20language%20difficulties%20in%20general.

I have a friend on this app . And her son is bilingual and only just turned one . He's been talking for some time now .

No. In our house, we have 3 languages - my mother tongue, my husband's mother tongue and English. When my son was 15.5 months old, he had lots of vocabulary in all 3 languages. He is 3 now and he is able to switch between languages at ease, though it is obvious his primary language is English. It's normal that some kids take longer to get hold of multiple languages but eventually they will get there. They are not going to be screwed just because it takes them a bit of time to process multiple languages. I grew up in Malaysia, if you google, all of us are exposed to at least 2 languages since birth, most of us are able to speak 3 languages. I am able to communicate in 5 languages myself including dialects simply by growing up in that kind of environment. However, at this age it's very hard now for me to pick up a new language

The only people I know in bilingual houses that don't speak actually have disabilities. My husband's sister was speaking 3 languages at 3 without an issue.

Yes they will be delayed because they are learning double but I wouldn't stop just because of the delay

There are delays, but it’s not a developmental issue. They just have more to absorb. My husband grew up in a trilingual household, and my mother-in-law often jokes that she thought he had a disability because he didn’t speak until almost 3. Anyone I know who grew up with, or has kids in, a two or more languages household have talked about speech delays with zero issues later on

If you do research through a speech pathologist and not on here lol they will tell you that no it does not. They will know the language they hear more better though

My daughter is 15 months, is an only child, and lives in a bilingual home. She is able to say and understand a lot of words in both languages. However, I have heard my co worker, who is a speech therapist, say that it takes children who are learning two languages at the same time longer than others to start talking fluently.

Yes a slight delay however it’s far more beneficial for your child to be bilingual. I also think at 15 months is not really the age to start thinking a child is delayed speech wise.

We are a bilingual family (Korean and English) however my son attends a daycare where they mostly speak spanish due to most of the kids being spanish speakers only. I had my son evaluated at 15 months and they informed me multilingual children speak later and he understands all the languages because he was able to follow directions in all three languages. Now He's 21 months and is speaking more spanish and korean than english.