Question: Hi, my son is 20 month old, but he speaks very few words like utth, papa, mum mum, de de, jai, ba ba, dog he says dah, car he says ca, ball he says bb, elephant he says ee, otherwise he is super active, he can points out the part of body and follows the instructions. He understands everything. We live outside india, so he doesnot meet much people.

Answer: Hi, Your baby has made a great progress so far. To encourage him to learn more words and form sentences you ll need to put in Lil extra effort. The best way to teach baby about his surrounding is singing rhythms. They are funny interactive and super helpful in making baby learn new words. For sentences you can read stories to him. Talk to your baby in open ended conversations. Whatever you are doing keep it describing to your baby. All these acts will encourage him to describe his feelings and slowly he ll be comfortable with sentence formation.