Riley is 19 month old now and she barely even talks...that's hardly! I am getting worried. She will say momma, bubba, mine, baby, and does baby babble. But when i try to get her to talk, like say "please" she will sign! When she wants "more" she will sign! I try to encourage her to speak but she just won't and so i am wondering if there is somehting wrong. I know she totally understand me because when i ask her to pick up her toys, she will, when i ask her to throw her diaper out, she will, or to get a drink or something, she will. But she just won't say a word...when you try to get her to say something she will do a little babling and then totaly shut down like she gets self-conscious or something. She does have 2 olders sisters who know what she wants, so yeah, that might not help. But my concern is there are kids at her daycare, her age, who are just babbling away and she will sit there and point or sign...........any advice??? 
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An EI evaluation is totally free if it will put your mind at ease. But I think that she sounds totally normal for her age. What's the range of ages in her daycare class? Before probably 3 years old, there's such a HUGE range of normal when it comes to speech. And the fact that she's communicating with sign is a good indicator that she'll be picking up the words soon. She knows what she wants to say, she just can't verbalize it yet, so she's using the sign. If she didn't have signs, there would probably be a lot more whining around your house. LOL I would just reinforce the spoken word every time she used the sign. If she signs "more", be sure to say "you want more?" instead of just giving her more of whatever she's asking for. As long as you're reinforcing the connection between the sign and the word, she'll pick it up. It usually isn't until between 2 and 2 1/2 that they'll get the language explosion and seem to be picking up more words each day.
