The 1-and-a-half-year-old baby can only call "Dad, Mom". It is not a noble person who is slow to speak. These 5 things are very important.
Usually it is normal for a 1-and-a-half-year-old baby not to speak and does not need to go to the hospital for examination. But if you feel that your baby cannot hear what you say, or cannot understand what you say at all, it is best to take him to the hospital for examination.
Children must have three physiological conditions for learning to speak, namely normal development of vocal organs, hearing organs and brain.
If your baby can understand what you are saying and can occasionally imitate sounds, then his language ability is normal. If your baby still cannot speak when he is 2 and a half years old, it is medically called speech development delay, and it is best to take him to the hospital for examination.
Next, we will look at the rules of young children’s language development, the causes of developmental delays, and the five techniques for training children between 6 and 12 months old to speak (the last 99% of parents did it wrong!). Let's talk.
The rules of language development in children after 1 year old
The pronunciation in infancy is purely imitation, which shows that the baby's language ability is normal. According to a survey by Parents, most babies learn to speak as early as 8 months old and as late as 2 years old. Really learning to speak is usually between 1 and 2 years old.
Some babies start talking as early as a few months old, and more and more babies can talk between 1 and 2 years old. This is actually the characteristic of baby's language development-sustainability.
The most important factor that determines whether a baby will speak sooner or later is the usual training of the baby by parents. Talking more to the baby, reading to him, and creating a good language environment for him may help the baby speak earlier, but on the contrary, it may delay the baby's speech.
There are many reasons for speech delay. There are usually three reasons that affect children's speech: physiological reasons, psychological reasons and family reasons.
Physiological reasons
Physiologically speaking, if the child has hearing problems or abnormal vocal organs, it will lead to the inability to pronounce normally. For example, if the child has a tongue tie, , cleft lip, cleft palate and other abnormalities, there will be abnormal air flow and difficulty in vocal coordination, which will affect pronunciation; if the child has hearing impairment, it will also affect the development of language.
Psychological reasons
If a child has autism or mental retardation, he may not be able to speak.
Family reasons
Most children’s reluctance to speak is caused by the family environment. Some parents often talk about words that their children cannot speak. Over time, the children become accustomed to hearing them and become reluctant to speak. There are also a very small number of parents who force their children to speak or treat their children's poor pronunciation as a joke, inadvertently hurting their children's emotions. Self-esteem, so he became unwilling to speak.
1. Provide him with a rich language environment
In fact, it is very simple, just talk to your child often. Long before a child speaks his or her first words, he or she begins to learn the terms and concepts needed to speak.
Every member of the family should constantly talk to the child to help him build a vocabulary library. Read to him, sing to him, and name things around him.
2. Involve children in conversations
Babbling is the way children speak. Parents should not deprive their children of the right to participate in conversations just because they do not understand baby talk. Involve children in the discussion. You can ask him questions and wait for him to "answer" before continuing the topic.
When the child is about 6 to 7 months old, his way of speaking changes. It is no longer the short syllables "ba-ba, da-da", but the long syllables "pa" -pa-ba-ta-bi”. Or you may pause while you are talking, and then look at you, waiting for your reply. This shows that the child has learned the skills of dialogue and the process of dialogue.
3. Use complex words
Baby talk can indeed attract children’s attention, but many studies have pointed out that if a child is exposed to only baby talk for a long time, it will have a negative impact on the child’s language development. It is unfavorable, because the overly simplistic structure of baby talk will affect the child's ability to accept the main structure of the language that must be learned, and is not conducive to the standardized development of language.
At the same time, after children get used to baby talk, it will be difficult to get rid of it in the future. When communicating with children of the same age, they will appear very childish and can easily lead to inferiority complex.
When speaking more complex words to children, it is actually more important to use grammatically standardized sentences.
Whether you are using simple or complex words to communicate with your child, be sure to let him see your mouth movements, let him observe how you pronounce words, and how to give him a hint that it is his turn to speak.
4. Encourage children to express their needs in language
When a child can understand language and speak one or two words, do not meet his needs prematurely and encourage him to express his needs in language. His needs, eliminate the use of body language.
In such interactions with adults, infants and young children have many opportunities for imitation and reinforcement of their language.
Talking too fast or garbled can make it difficult for your child to decipher what you are saying. Slow down your speech and try not to say negative words to your child, such as "no", "don't do that", etc. This will dampen his enthusiasm for learning a new language.
5. Reduce the time children spend watching TV and other media
Scientific research shows that 0-6 years old is a sensitive period for children’s language development. A research report published in the American medical journal "Medical Literature of Children and Adolescence" shows that exposure to television in infants and young children can affect their language development.
Researchers followed 329 infants aged 2 months to 4 years old and found that as long as the TV was on, regardless of whether anyone was watching or not, the infants talked to themselves and communicated with adults. will be significantly reduced.
It is estimated that for every hour the TV is on, the number of words a child hears will decrease by 770. In this regard, Professor Dimitri Christakis, director of the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development at the Seattle Children's Research Institute, who is mainly responsible for this research, said:
The brains of infants and young children develop rapidly before they are 2 years old. Very fast, but at the same time, it also needs external stimulation and responds. Among all external stimuli, talking to others is the most important, but television can distract adults and children, greatly reducing external language stimulation, resulting in delayed language development in children. Therefore, it is necessary to reduce the time children spend watching TV and other media to no more than 20 minutes a day.
In fact, novice parents don’t need to pay too much attention to the morning and evening of their baby’s speech. They should put their experience into the practice of cultivating their baby’s speech, so that the baby can lay a solid foundation at each stage of language development, and speech will come naturally. It's over.
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