Surprised that at 15 months the doctor would be worried. Alice is monitored quite closely for speech and language development because of her cleft palate, but even then her first appointment wasn't until 18 months and they didn't seem to expect much in the way of words by that stage. More important iirc were things like variation in inflection and exploring different sounds, and seeming socialised to speech generally.
At her nursery I have seen vast differences between kids of the same age but it seems to level out soon enough. I think sometimes kids who go to nursery/daycare might pick up speech quicker, but that's not necessarily important in the long run.
Alice is apparently pretty advanced in terms of vocabulary and speech now (at two and a quarter), but I don't think we did anything different to anyone else: LOADS of reading to her, commentary on EVERYTHING etc etc.
― Archel, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 09:23 (fourteen years ago) link