Background: Speech delay is a developmental delay often found in children. The cause of speech delay is multifactoral. External factors include lack of communication between a child with their parents leading to the child's poor vocabulary. One of the forms of communication between a child and their parents applied is story telling that may relate to speech delay in children. Purpose: To prove the relation between parent's habit of story telling with speech delay in children aged 1-3 years old. Methods: This study used observational analytic approach with cross-sectional design. Study sample is children aged 1-3 years old registered in daycares/kindergartens in Tamantirto, Kasihan, Bantul, Yogyakarta. Subjects were chosen by purposive sampling. Data collecting was done by asking parents/childminders to fill in questionnaires and interviews. Speech delay was assessed using Capute scale. Data analyzed using Chi-square/Fischer with p<0.05 significance. Results: Total sample of 43 respondants. Among them, 7 (16.89%) are suspects of speech delay. From the suspects of speech delay, 2 respondants (28.60%) rarely received story telling from their parents while 5 other respondants (71,40%) often received story telling from their parents. There is no significant relation between parents' habit of story telling with speech delay in children aged 1-3 years old.