Welcome back to Tiny Tyrants with me, Noor Al Hashimi. This week is about the question that keeps so many parents up at night, which is my child is not talking and the neighbour's child is reciting the alphabet. I have Fatima Darwish with me, a paediatric speech and language therapist who has assessed hundreds of toddlers here in the UAE. We are going to go through what is actually normal at 18 months, at two, at three, why what your child understands matters more than what they say, whether speaking Arabic and English at home slows things down, and how screens fit into all of this. And we will be honest about when it is time to get an assessment. Fatima, welcome. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts.