Repeating words

Looking for a little bit of advice really as feeling quite emotional. I just got my daughter from nursery and they have suggested for her to go to speech therapy because she keeps repeating words all the time as in she’ll keep saying the word over and over again until you repeat it back to her. I know she does this because she does it with me but I didn’t think this was a cause for speech therapy as she picks up new words so easily and says sentences too! They also said she doesn’t understand things too for example putting the toy cow in the farm but I think she’s only 2 and just starting to understand everything. I’ve just come away feel like I’ve failed her as they’ve put her in a 0-12 month bracket for her speech which I think is ridiculous. So sorry for the long post, just wondered if anyone else’s little one keeps repeating words over and over and if this is a cause for speech therapy?
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Um that's odd...my girly does this too sometimes but she also says full sentences and will literally repeat everything you say! Lol. As far as not understanding direction...does she listen to or understand direction with you? Obviously at 2 they are not going to do everything you say lol, but unless this is a regular occurrence I don't see how that has to do with her speech.

@Jen she does understand a few directions like finding her shoes and coat so this is why I’m so confused. She’s only been going since January and found it hard to settle in so had to have a few more settling in sessions before her going all day (she goes in twice a week).

Mine also repeats words and sentences until you acknowledge it and say it back to her. But we’ve never had any worries about her speech. I wonder if your LO is acting differently at nursery than with you at home? Particularly if she hasn’t been at nursery very long? We also recently had it where there was a video of her at nursery struggling to count to 5 but she does it absolutely fine at home 🤷🏼‍♀️

Could you have a catch up with your hv? And see what she says as we had a similar thing but with fussy eating and the hv gave tips but also helped us feel better there wasn’t an issue just a phase

@Gaby it has really frustrated me with her nursery because I feel she is absolutely fine. Has your LO been going to nursery a while?

@Josie annoyingly her 27 month review got cancelled as they don’t do it at the centre there anymore so now have to wait until next month to see what they have to say!

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