DS did the same type of thing as polarbear's DS, where when he did finally talk in sentences they were basically gramatically correct. He didn't do any "babytalk" or go through predictable speech phases.
polarbear, how is an expressive language disorder diagnosed? I did take DS in for a private speech eval abou 1.5 years ago and she gave him a language assessment, and he scored above average. But yet, I do worry about some aspects of his expressive speech. Sometimes I can't figure out what he's talking about. DD was so advanced for speech that it's hard for me to even know what is "normal". But yet he seems to struggle sometimes with open ended questions, even things like "who did you play with at recess." More often that not I'll just get a shrug or an "I don't know."
