The thing is, kids don't have to have amazing speech if THEY can understand you. You can communicate in other ways till they progress. What I find concerning about big mandy is that she doesn't understand a thing dingle says to her, and I've never ever seen her follow a simple or complex instruction. You can deffo ask a child of 18 months + questions and they will point and nod to show that they understand. Or you can ask they questions and they will let you know they understand. The only thing she's taught her is to grin at her own reflection to the camera.
Sad sad sad.
I was thinking exactly this. My little girl had hearing problems caused by deep ear infections that were missed for about a year as I was told she'd be visibly distresses in pain etc and they couldn't see anything by checking her ears how they normally do. Anyway it ended up as infections in the bone behind her ears and she was in hospital for it but in all that time she still had some understanding. They think she could hear as if she was under water and she still managed to grasp basic things and talk a small amount in a way i could understand (but no one else) she almost sounded deaf with the few words she could say.
Roma didn't even seem to be close to making the right sounds. But i also noticed at the she had her fingers as if she was counting but begs ignored it instead of using it a conversation starter.
she doesn't seem to have a clue, I know that as soon as I felt there was a problem I was on youtube watching speech therapists and reading up on how to help.
Since begs reads here bit of advice I found from both online and in person speech specialists, get the book brown bear and read it in a sing song voice tapping the pages with the rhythm. My daugther was mimicing this after a few weeks even though it wasn't very understandable and my son who had no delays was doing it by 18 months with actual words, he could 'read' the book by 2.