Saturday, 8 March 2014

DELAYED SPEECH DEVELOPMENT HAPPENS AND CAN BE HANDLED

 Baby Development

Every mother awaits her child's first spoken words. It's like their dream to be addressed as mama come true. The first word the child usually speaks is mama or dada or papa easy to say and that's majorly what we want to hear them say too. Simple words of maa, paa or dada make that one simple moment into a special and memorable moment.

Children usually say their first words by their 1st birthday and by their 2nd birthday they should be saying at least 2 or 3 word sentences. However, some kids say it much earlier in comparison to many and a few speak much later in comparison to all.

I know, it can create a huge panic when we realize our kid hasn't spoken yet and our friend's kid or other kids of the same age are already on their way to pronounce more words.I know it is scary, but there is no reason to panic. Speech development in some cases is known to get delayed as children develop their speech as and when then want to and you cannot force them to speak. It is generally noted that girls in comparison will always speak faster and way sooner than boys. Your child comes into the late speech development category that too only if he has not spoken even a word and he is 20 odd months old as by this time. We expect babies to learn atleast 10 to 15 generally used words.

Usually, a child should be saying atleast 2 to 3 words sentences by their 2nd birthday and by their 3rd birthday simple words and sentence understanding should have been developed. By the age of 4 your baby should be able to understand all instructions and pronounce her words correctly, and by 5 your baby should be a non-stop chatter box. Though this may be the case of many children, but in some cases this may not be the case for all children. Some children start their speech as late as 2 or 3 years old.

Read Reasons of delayed speech in next blog post.......

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