Professional support: provided by Dr. Chen Lijuan of Hubei Maternal and Child Health Hospital!
Doctor Profile:
Chen Lijuan, deputy chief physician of Hubei Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Department of Pediatric Neurology, has 10 years of working experience and is good at brain development and language development.
When does the child learn to speak at the latest in what? Some parents are worried when their children are not able to speak when they are one year old.
In fact, although it is said that most children can speak 20 words when they are over one year old, each child is unique. The speaking time varies from early to late. It is not necessary to be too impatient to postpone the time within half a year.
If the baby is over two years old and still cannot speak at all or even express his thoughts, he should take the baby to the health department of the Children’s Hospital for examination.
What factors will affect children’s language development?
First, there may be congenital cleft lip and cleft palate, pronunciation organs have problems, and children cannot speak.
Second, it is hearing impairment. There is a saying called [ten deaf and nine dumb] If the child cannot hear the sound, it will naturally be difficult to speak.
However, children are now examined when they are born. If they have hearing impairment or congenital cleft lip and palate, they will be found at birth and will not be found until the time to speak.
Third, it may be that the intellectual development is backward. In this case, the average child is not only backward in speech, but also backward in language understanding and pronunciation.
Four, autism, this kind of children don’t like to associate with people, when others talk to him, also have no eye contact.
There is also a more common situation, is not to give the child a good environment to learn to speak, no one to communicate with the child, no one to talk to him, then naturally the child will not speak.
If you are worried that your child has the above-mentioned problems, your parents can observe these aspects:
The first is the attitude of communication. When parents talk to their children, they observe whether their children have eye contact.
The second is understanding. When parents talk to their children, they can see if they can understand common words, such as eating, drinking water and walking.
The third is the ability to articulate, that is, whether the child can speak normally and whether he can make clear syllables.
Some two-year-old babies, although unable to speak, are basically normal in understanding. This is because their oral expression ability lags behind their understanding ability. It is basically normal. It is more common in boys and there is no need to worry.